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As schools and daycares are closed because of the coronavirus pandemic, academic mothers are finding themselves less able to conduct research and write articles.
Female teachers perform better in the classroom and women principals lead to achieve better school management. But, female educators have to wait longer to be promoted.
An economics professor investigates why college men are more likely to push back when they don’t get the grades they want.
When children take up instruments they’re not passionate about, most don’t stick with music for long, and that’s a shame.
Women have up to one-and-a-half year’s extra education, and nearly a full year’s extra workforce experience, than required for their job.
Americans’ widespread belief that they live in a meritocracy where anyone can get ahead actually makes inequality even worse, particularly in terms of gender.
The gender pay gap at Canadian universities cannot be explained away as the holdover from discrimination of long ago. It’s high time universities valued male and female professors equally.
Every romantic relationship has a power dynamic. While men are just as likely as women to say they wield less power, the costs of feeling subordinate were far from equal.
That South Africa has voted against rights enshrined in its globally celebrated, progressive constitution suggests a troubling indifference to its human rights commitments.
Changing the design of a classroom can get more girls interested in computer science. Here’s how.
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Associate Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor of the Practice of Engineering, Brown University
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, RMIT University
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Lecturer in Musicology, Dan School of Drama & Music, Queen's University, Ontario
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Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning Manager (MERL Manager), Inovasi untuk Anak Sekolah Indonesia (INOVASI)
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Professor, Sociology, University of British Columbia
