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A University of Oklahoma student who received a zero out of 25 on an assignment regarding gender norms says she was targeted for her Christian beliefs, citing a scathing response from the teacher's ...

Even before President Donald Trump took office, transgender patients in Hawaiʻi were struggling to get insurance to cover some treatments. Now it’s getting worse. After coming out as transgender to ...

Families in the U.S. and around the world are having fewer children as people make profoundly different decisions about their lives. NPR's series Population Shift: How Smaller Families Are Changing ...

Several years ago, in an interview with Quartz, I argued that women are often mischaracterized as financially “risk-averse,” when a better description would be “risk aware.” Instead of being ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A new expanded edition of “Gender Queer,” Maia Kobabe’s graphic memoir, will be released in May. “Gender Queer: ...

When Missourians vote next year on whether to outlaw most abortions, they will also decide whether the state constitution should include a ban on gender-affirming care for minors. Such a move — ...

The gender pay gap in the United States is moving in the wrong direction, according to the latest figures from the Census Bureau. The data, released earlier this month, shows that while men’s earnings ...

WHEN KRISTINA OLSON began studying children who had transitioned from one gender to another in the early 2010s, there were not a lot of them. Social transition (living in a new gender, with no medical ...

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New data out from the U.S. Census Bureau shows the gender wage gap widened in 2024 for the second year in a row. Median wages for men increased 3.7% by the Bureau’s measure, but were flat for women.

Gender disparities in math proficiency emerge only after children start school, according to a June study coauthored by Harvard Professor of Psychology Elizabeth S. Spelke ’71 and published in the ...