Harvard’s Math Department has hired a woman as a senior professor for the second time in its history, ending a six-year streak in which the department boasted not a single woman of that rank.

Maryam Mirzakhani, a mathematics professor at Stanford University in California, is the first woman to receive the Fields Medal -- considered the “Nobel Prize” of mathematics -- since the ...

On Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014, the Iranian-born Stanford University professor became the first woman to win math's highest honor, the Fields Medal. The prize is awarded every four years to ...

Being a female science professor, particularly when I was younger, ... engineering, and math. I know that the reasons for the continuing underrepresentation of women, ...

On Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014, the Iranian-born Stanford University professor became the first woman to win math's highest honor, the Fields Medal. (AP Photo/Maryam Mirzakhani via Stanford) ...

Naval Academy Math Professor Carolyn Chun is alleging gender bias in the school's tenure selection process. Out of the 11 men and four women who applied for tenure in 2021, 10 men were successful.

The trio of economists examined the undergraduate careers of 9,481 cadets taught by nearly 250 different science and math instructors at the USAFA during the years 2000-08.

The mathematics department would like to have more female majors, and it is open to providing assistance for Mentoring Möbius, said department chair and Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics Andrew ...

CHICAGO — Female teachers’ anxiety about math may undermine girls’ confidence in learning the subject and decrease their performance in fields that depend on a grasp of math fundamentals ...

Female elementary school teachers who are anxious about math may undermine girls’ confidence and unwittingly encourage them to believe that boys are better at the subject, research at the ...

Female math students underrepresented in male-dominated field Both upper-level course enrollment and undergraduate teaching assistant staff have been less than 23% female over the past six semesters, ...