How much of the differences between the way men and women behave are a result of nature, and how much is nurture?

Amid concerns about mental health and other challenges boys and girls in the United States are facing, we asked U.S. adults about some aspects of raising boys and girls these days. We found some ...

Reflecting a generational change, two Pew surveys show boys tend to feel discouraged in the classroom, and are less likely than girls to pursue college. By Claire Cain Miller In the 1980s and 1990s, ...

A decades-old riddle poses the following scenario: a boy is injured in a car crash in which the father dies and is taken to the emergency room, where the doctor says, "I cannot operate on him—he's my ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to add, starting with ...