Browsing: gender

Growing up in Rawalpindi, a city adjacent to Pakistan’s capital Islamabad, Mahnoor Omer remembers the shame and anxiety she felt in school when she had periods.…

Last week I and several colleagues visited a local technical high school to see what kind of dual-enrollment courses we could offer there. The school was leaps…

You have full access to this article via your institution. Age and gender distortion in online media and large language modelsResearchers have analysed hundreds of thousands…

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to review another case involving school district practices on gender identity—its third since last year—with three justices suggesting that…

Once a month without fail I decide to give up on all my goals and ambitions. “There’s just no point,” I sigh to my mother, who…

On a November evening in 2023, in the South Korean city of Jinju, a woman called On Ji-goo was working the late shift at a convenience…

Overall rise in grades; gap between boys and girls narrows in GCSE resultsThere has been an overall rise in grades among 16-year-olds taking GCSEs and the…

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.The natural world is full of sexual diversity—traits that challenge binary definitions of male and female—but traditional…

A campaign group that won a legal victory on the definition of gender is taking action against the Scottish government over policies it says are “inconsistent”…

Japan needs to admit that long-running efforts to address gender inequality in higher education aren’t working, experts say, with antidiversity sentiment spreading from the U.S. and…