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.

In the URL of my blog, I am simply “science-professor,” but the pseudonymous name I use as a blogger is “Female Science Professor.” Why the extra adjective? Does it matter in my work as a ...

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 ...

The researchers also found that the influence of professor gender was even starker for the set of students who were math whizzes when they entered the Academy (those with math SAT scores above 700).

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, ...

Lillian Pierce, a Ph.D. candidate in the mathematics department, began Mentoring Möbius in 2006. She pairs female undergraduates in math courses with student mentors who can provide advice on courses, ...

Following her promotion to the rank of Associate Professor in Applied Mathematics at the University of Ghana, Dr. Chisara Peace Ngozi Ogbogbo has become the first woman to earn a professorship in ...

Math professor calculates a 99.6% chance she and female scholars were discriminated against in Naval Academy tenure decisions By Julie Coleman ...

A poster advertising an event for Brigham Young University’s Women in Math club has sparked mocking irritation online for its seemingly inconsistent visual featuring four men.

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 ...

University of Georgia math professor William Kazez’s number is up. The longtime instructor, under investigation since March for alleged improper conduct with at least seven female students ...

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 ...