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Female elementary school teachers’ comfort with mathematics has an outsize effect on the girls they teach, according to new research. Girls taught by a female teacher got a learning boost if that ...

I AM often asked if, in my experience of French school life, I found the standards of education for girls as high in France as in America. I can only answer that the French ideas of what a young girl ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Girls in the U.S. may be continuing to hit puberty at earlier ages, according to new research. The findings suggest earlier development than what was reported in a 1997 ...

WASHINGTON — Girls and young women get hooked on cigarettes, alcohol and drugs more quickly and for different reasons than boys, and should receive specialized treatment that reflects that, according ...

A new study found that when it comes to raising teenagers, girls spend more time on homework and household chores than boys. The Pew Research Center combed through data from the Bureau of Labor ...

As Silicon Valley struggles to inject diversity into the male-dominated halls of tech companies, a new study suggests that women have a natural head start. In 70 percent of countries where statistics ...

Suicide rates for young girls are rising at a pace faster than that of boys, changing the established patterns that boys are more likely to die by suicide and that girls are more likely to consider it ...

According to results of a new study, while suicide rates have increased among all youth, there has been a steep increase in young girls. The study from Nationwide Children’s Hospital noted that from ...