Stereotypes about what boys and girls supposedly like aren’t hard to find. Toy advertisements send signals that science and electronic toys are intended for boys rather than girls. Computer scientists ...

Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos—men dominate the tech industry. In 2021 men made up 75 percent of employed computer scientists and 84 percent of employed engineers in the U.S. And that’s ...

Senior Cassidy Cheesman was one of just five girls in Advanced Placement Computer Science last school year at Lafayette’s Centaurus High School. The girls gravitated to the same table, started talking ...

SEATTLE — Though less likely to study in a formal technology or engineering course, America’s girls are showing more mastery of those subjects than their male classmates, according to newly released ...

When she was in kindergarten, a computer engineer visited Stephanie Lackey’s school for career day. As he talked about his work and showed students the equipment he brought with him, she felt a spark ...

Allison Master receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the U. S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences. The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not ...