Tag: Gender

ScienceDaily (Jan. 6, 2010) Girls around the world are not worse at math than boys, even though boys are more confident in their math abilities, and girls from countries where gender equity is more prevalent are more likely to perform better on mathematics assessment tests, according to a new analysis of international research.

A Canadian woman in her mid-30s needed a joband fast. She had two young daughters, was single, and living in a tiny Quebec apartment. So she turned to the Web, started a business, and hit a wall. I was having a hard time landing jobs. I was being turned down for gigs I shouldve gotten, she says. So the woman did what many female writers have often wondered about : she changed her name. She became James Chartrand, the founder of Men with Pens, a Canadian Web design and copywriting business whose testosterone-heavy Website declares itll help you hit the bulls-eye of success.