Girls and boys are equally social at birth. This finding, based on my team’s synthesis of six decades of research, may come ...

Just a few years ago, the United States almost eliminated the gap between middle school girls’ and boys’ performance in math and science. Now, boys are pulling ahead again, finds a new analysis from ...

Many people have felt the subtle pressure to be "man enough" or "woman enough" in the eyes of others. And research has shown this pressure can have personal and social consequences. When men feel ...

Re “What Happens When Girls Get to Be Boy Scouts,” by Erica Song (Opinion guest essay, July 26): I am writing as a member of Girl Scout Troop 145 of Dallas, led by Marjorie Wheeler from 1955 to 1963.

After England won the women’s European Championship in 2022, the FA’s insights team examined the footballing journeys of 37 senior Lionesses. “The one thing every one of them had in common was that ...

When boys and girls reach adolescence, they are bombarded with messages that associate attraction with violence. These messages – from their peer group, TV series, films, music, social media, and so ...

Girls, on average, find more success at school than boys. The data are clear; the reasons behind it, less so. Are boys today simply less likely than girls to see the value of succeeding academically?

Autism in toddlerhood looks the same in boys and girls. A large study of autistic kids between 1 and 4 years old turned up no overt differences in symptoms. Those results, published May 26 in Nature ...

Parents, relatives and teachers say these phrases all the time and mean them positively. They may use it when a child puts on their shoes when asked, when they draw something interesting, or get a ...

Realizing that psychologists have been studying newborns' social orientation for decades, my team of neurobehavioral researchers and I set out to collect all the data—every published study that has ...