STEM

Fewer females drop out of doctoral programs if they have a significant number of same-sex peers.

• By Tom Jacobs

Being the unwanted object of affection can cause great personal discomfort, and even impact careers.

• By Tom Jacobs

New research suggests lesbian, gay, and bisexual students are being driven out of STEM majors.

• By Chinelo Nkechi Ikem

Today’s kids are less reflexively sexist than past generations. But the stereotype that all scientists are male remains stubbornly persistent.

• By Tom Jacobs

New Israeli research finds a well-intentioned remark can trigger a negative reaction.

• By Tom Jacobs

Science and tech jobs are among America's highest-paying and fastest-growing, but women and minorities in the field report they face unfair barriers in the workplace.

• By Francie Diep

New research finds the stereotype that intellectual genius is a male trait can dampen females' interest in certain jobs or fields of study.

• By Tom Jacobs

Forget the tut-tutting of politicians: The skills you learn in the humanities are exactly the skills you use in a job search.

• By Ilana Gershon & Noah Berlatsky

What Donald Trump and the GOP get wrong about STEM guest workers.

• By Jared Keller

English Ph.D.'s and astrophysicists unite! Devan Kreisberg explains that it’s not just the humanities that are under attack, but exploration for its own sake—and that anthropology and astronomy are equally at risk.

• By Devan Kreisberg

New research suggests that setting gender aside helps teachers increase opportunity for precocious students.

• By Lane Severson

New research links women's poor performance on math tests with their wish to date a smarter man.

• By Tom Jacobs

We asked an expert.

• By Kate Wheeling

We must do more to fill the gender gap in tech leadership and venture capital.

• By Elizabeth Scharpf

Montana State University STEM departments now hire equal numbers of women and men, thanks to new procedures that raise awareness of gender issues.

• By Nathan Collins

The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.

• By John Seely Brown

The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.

• By Stephen R. Barley

One new study finds a strong link between how many female science majors a country has, and the stereotypes its citizens hold about gender and science.

• By Francie Diep

A re-make of the hit MacGyver aims to do for women in engineering what Modern Family did for gay marriage. Can it work?

• By Nicole Shine

The demography of academic fields, and why women are more likely to participate in areas that are associated with hard work over any kind of luck.

• By Lisa Wade

A new study suggests the gender disparities in academia come from how much a field values raw talent.

• By Kate Wheeling

How organizations are working to recruit men into a female-dominated field.

• By Marci Cottingham

Don’t be afraid to stick with your liberal arts education. If history is any guide, it could be just as valuable as knowing how to write code.

• By Mark P. Mills & M. Anthony Mills

With a diversified employment base, the Emerald City will survive as Boeing starts looking for new talent outside of Washington State. But what does the search for cheap STEM talent say about the Innovation Economy?

• By Jim Russell