Three years ago, Lawrence Summers speculated publicly that biological differences between the sexes were the primary reason for the low numbers of women at the highest levels in science and ...

American students score lower on international mathematics tests than students from countries that are poorer but with more equal distributions of family income, such as Finland, according to a UB ...

The equal sign is the bedrock of mathematics. It seems to make an entirely fundamental and uncontroversial statement: These things are exactly the same. But there is ...

Malala Yousafzai, the teenaged advocate for Pakistani girls' education, was released from the hospital earlier this month. Most of the world's girls don't have to fight as hard as Yousafzai for their ...

The "girl math" trend has taken TikTok by storm in recent months as women have pointed out the clever and often hilarious ways they justify irresponsible expenditures and turn them into bargains with ...

For many students, struggles with mathematics are a major obstacle to college and career success. Some never master basic operations (e.g., working with fractions and percentages), skills the ...

I was recently asked to give the keynote address for a youth leadership conference. In the invitation, they informed me that the conference theme was inequality and that I had only 10 minutes to speak ...

Professor Andrew Lewis-Pye is the Equality Officer for the Department of Mathematics. Professional Services Staff support departmental EDI initiatives, and the first point of contact is currently Joe ...