Historically, women have been less involved in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and math) than men. Though it may be a problem deeply rooted in society, there has been a recent push to ...

After endless amounts of drool over sexy male nerds (like the recent NY Observer piece about male "nerds of steel," hailing the arrival of geeks who are buff), many men and women are cheering about ...

Almost 100 years after being granted the right to vote and several decades after the Women’s Movement, it seems there are still many, many men — especially in the sweaty boys’ locker room of internet ...

Idiot Nerd Girl — a meme featuring a girl in oversized glasses with the word "NERD" written across her hand — is one example of geek culture's entrenched misogyny, but recently one woman decided to ...

Nerd Nite celebrates girl power this month. This gathering of geeks brings you an evening of booze, brains and intellectual banter. As an audience member, you’ll be able to sit back, relax and drink ...

I was going to write about The Big Bang Theory—why, as a nerdy viewer, I sometimes like it and sometimes have a problem with it, why I think there’s a backlash against it. Then some maniac shot up a ...

After Mark Zuckerberg shared his personal goal to build an artificial intelligence system for his home on Jan. 3, a grandmother named Darlene Hackemer Loretto commented that she tells her ...

Sign up for our Metro US email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox! Back in 2006, Matt Wasowski didn’t think an ...

Nerd Street Gamers and Spectacor Gaming, the gaming division of Comcast NBCUniversal, will host an all-women's VALORANT tournament on Sept. 12 called the FTW Summer Showdown. The event will feature ...