"In past centuries, the gender gap in mathematics was quite large, possibly due to social inequality , leading to the stereotype that women weren’t good at math. Even just a few decades ago, girls were not encouraged to study science and math, so they took far fewer classes in those subjects during high school and college. Now that we are in the 21st century, it is time to reevaluate the gender gap in mathematics to see if there are improvements and if we have learned anything new. For one thing... read more