Remember back in the old days when we used to fret about how girls weren’t doing as well as guys in school, especially in math and science? Ah, that seems so last century.
Gender gap? What gender gap? That’s the message in a new study by five professors at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of California-Berkeley. Although other studies have found similar results, this one is the most sweeping. Comparing math test scores of 7 million students in 10 states from 2005 to 2007, the study found that girls and boys do equally well.