One factor that influences the use of the labels “soft science” or “hard science” is gender bias, according to recent research my colleagues and I conducted. Women’s participation varies across STEM ...

For folks in the literacy world, the bitter fight over California’s math framework sounded eerily familiar. On one side, proponents of the framework argued that students need to learn to love math, ...

Words matter. And when it comes to learning math, they matter more than you might think.

Women’s participation varies across STEM disciplines. While women have nearly reached gender parity in biomedical sciences, they still make up only about 18% of students receiving undergraduate ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. How seriously people take particular scientific disciplines partly depends on how many women enter them. skynesher/E+ via Getty ...