A field study in Malawi reveals psychological factors played an important role in whether girls attended school, even under conditions of extreme poverty and deprivation: Girls were significantly more ...

Fields like math are close to having gender parity, yet the nation is still failing to diversify computer science and engineering. Stereotypes about what boys and girls supposedly like aren’t hard to ...

Education -- and girls' education in particular -- is often cited as one of the key pathways out of poverty, but in many parts of the world women and girls still face significant barriers that prevent ...