In December, the latest “Women in the Workplace” report from Lean In and McKinsey made a claim that dominated headlines: ...

On today’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science, only a few nations have reached parity in tertiary STEM education. Numbers from a UNESCO database show that a majority of countries, ...

Think back to the hours spent memorizing the periodic table or diagramming sentences. Useful, maybe. But for a lot of women, ...

Members of the all-female medical staff at the Heal Veterinary Clinic in Watertown, Massachusetts. Women now outnumber men in veterinary school by four to one. Credit: Lucy Lu for The Hechinger Report ...

Texas Woman’s University, founded in 1901 by the state to advance women’s education, is now feeling pressured to downplay its women and gender studies program. The push from Texas lawmakers and the ...

Once upon a time, it was fairly common for highly educated men in the United States to marry less-educated women. But beginning in the mid-20th century, as more women started to attend college, ...