Social scientists and gender theorists have long debated the causes of achievement disparities between males and females in certain competencies. For example, if we find (as we do) that most engineers ...

Gender stereotypes are views about how members of a specific gender should behave or which attributes they should have. Examples include females being stereotyped as more emotional than males. Gender ...

While the majority of gender socialization happens in childhood, this subtle instruction continues throughout life and can come from a variety of sources, such as family traditions, authority figures, ...

From 2004 to 2014, private high schools opened in more than 200 rural villages in one large Indian state. In a new study, researchers compared student outcomes in these villages with outcomes in ...