Why Is the Math Gender Gap So Much Worse in the US Than in Other Countries?
Category: WOMEN
In most countries, girls outperform boys in math. However, in the US, boys uniformly best girls. We are joined in the low-performing bottom three by Liechtenstein and Columbia.  While we have the greater problem that math and science education in the US seriously lags that of other nations, we must face the fact that that lag is also the product of gender inequities.
By Soraya Chemaly, ContributorFeminist, writer, and satirist (not always in that order), 2014-05-05