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The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM
Though their numbers are growing, only 27 percent of all students taking the AP Computer Science exam in the United States are female. The gender gap only grows worse from there: Just 18 percent of
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How Scientists Are Blocking Bias in the World at Large
Psychological researchers like APS Fellow Naomi Ellemers are applying the scientific understanding of implicit bias to address discrimination in law enforcement, medical, and workplace settings.
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Women Beat Expectations When Playing Chess Against Men
Ranked chess players’ data suggest that women playing against men perform better than expected based on official ratings
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of new research exploring emotion and memory in depression, emotion regulation and everyday functioning in schizophrenia, and different autism phenotypes in males and females.
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Want to raise an empowered girl? Then let her be funny.
Laurie Menser was a 7- or 8-year-old in Rockville, Md., when she wandered over to a neighbor’s house one day, slipped a glass eye in her mouth and got the attention of the grown-ups in
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Gender Matters! Teaching Gender-Based Analysis in Psychology
Psychological scientist Alexandra Rutherford discusses a project supported by a grant from the APS Teaching and Public Understanding of Psychological Science program to show how gender equality in STEM leads to better science.
