STEM gaps in achievement between boys and girls that took more than a decade to close were reopened in just four years, according to a new study from K-12 assessment and research organization NWEA.

Girls had closed long-standing gender gaps in math test scores and were doing about as well as boys on standardized tests in the years leading up to the pandemic. But the gender gap in math has come ...

Gender equality was supposed to reduce gender stratification and segregation in academic and professional pursuits. Instead, ...

New research from Monash University has, for the first time, investigated how children living in urban informal settlements in Indonesia and Fiji spend their time on educational, work and leisure ...

AFRICA: OVER the past few decades most advanced countries have witnessed two striking reversals of the gender gap. First, teaching has become a profession dominated by women. This is particularly true ...

The gender gap in education doesn't always disadvantage women. In countries like Estonia, Iceland, or Sweden, women outperform men in key indicators such as tertiary education and lifelong learning.

Go to many Indiana college campuses and peek in a classroom or stroll across the quad, and you might notice something. There are fewer male students than female—often way fewer. In raw numbers, 72,419 ...

Texas performed poorly across a variety of metrics, including its percentage of high school grads, its gender gap in education and its average university quality. Credit: Shutterstock / Trong Nguyen ...