News: Boys win over girls in alge'BRA'

THE gender gap in maths ability disappears in more sexually equal societies, suggesting that boys’ knack for algebra is more nurture than nature. Paola Sapienza at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and her colleagues compared test scores from a survey of 276,165 teenagers in 40 countries with measures of gender equality in each country, including the percentage of women who are
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