In 2019, the longstanding gender gap in middle school STEM performance was eliminated, with girls performing as well - or better - than their male classmates. However, girls' STEM achievement declined significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic, reopening the gender gap that had existed for decades.
While boys and girls continue to associate computer science and engineering as professions for men, a new study has found K-12 students are more likely to believe women are stronger performers in mathematics and just as competent as men in science.
From 2009 to 2023, women represented 40 percent of all authors in rheumatology randomized controlled trials. However, they were just 36.8 percent of first authors and only 26.1 percent of last authors.
A new study from the Utah Women & Leadership Project has found many Utahans believe discrimination and sexism towards women is a pervasive issue throughout the state, citing concerns in the workplace, their communities, healthcare settings, educational opportunities, and state politics.
As agriculture is a historically-male dominated field, many women farmers experience challenges not faced by their male counterparts. A new study has identified the toll of animal mortality, succession planning, and gender-stereotyping as unique stressors facing women in agriculture.
In an online experiment using two short documentary films, viewers consistently rated Black women scientists as less warm and less competent than Black men and White scientists of both genders, particularly when they introduced a White test subject.
Three women scholars affiliated with Yale University have found new evidence that people marrying similarly-educated partners may be reducing gender inequality within households, while simultaneously widening income inequality between households.
Over the past two decades, there has been an increase in the number of women majoring in physics, engineering, and computer science at highly selective college and universities. However, the gender gap in students studying these historically male-dominated fields has grown significantly at less selective institutions.
Currently, there is a severe shortfall in the number of professionals working in cybersecurity - a field where women are significantly underrepresented. By advancing women's participation in the field, scholars at Duke University hope to mitigate this shortfall, ultimately leading to a stronger global cybersecurity workforce.
Even among workers within the same occupations, women are significantly less likely to use ChatGPT to complete work tasks than their male colleagues. This gap exists despite women and men holding similar beliefs about the tool's time-saving potential.
