Research shows that students, especially boys, benefit when teachers share their race or gender. Yet most teachers are white women.

How America’s obsession with long hours has widened the gender gap.

Raising children has become significantly more time-consuming and expensive, amid a sense that opportunity has grown more elusive.

The flexibility to have an extra person at home, even for a few days, offers significant postpartum benefits, new research shows.

Research suggests that women in politics tend to be more collaborative and bipartisan, and to focus on social issues more than men.

In the United States, 1.3 million mothers are out of work because of the pandemic. Their losses are more than economic. Across backgrounds and careers, they describe a loss of identity.

One argument in the abortion case before the Supreme Court is that balancing work and family is now less of a challenge, but research shows becoming a mother still has a large economic impact on...

A survey suggests that pandemic-era domestic work isn’t being divided more equitably than before the lockdown.

How America’s obsession with long hours has widened the gender gap.

They also earn less allowance, suggesting that the gender inequality in pay begins at home, and early in life. But there are signs the gap is narrowing.

Our Glass Ceiling Index finds skewed gender representation and ethnic sameness in many institutions of American politics, culture and education.

How America’s obsession with long hours has widened the gender gap.

Creators of the Portland-area approach tried to avoid the pitfalls of similar policies elsewhere, and are giving teachers large raises.

The pandemic is a larger example of a pattern: When unexpected family needs arise, mothers step in.

The biggest increases have come from some groups who in the past were far less likely to have babies: highly educated women, those over 40, and women who have never been married.

Twenty Americans die each day waiting for organs. Here’s how to change that.

The president-elect used Twitter to assure Americans that the handover of power was going well, despite accounts of infighting on his team.

A database of daily fever readings shows that the numbers declined as people disappeared indoors.

The first season of our video series, Conception, explored what it’s like to become a mother. Our second season explores parenting in 2018.

Democrats propose $50 billion for a business that is in danger of widespread failure — and that many parents need before they can return to work.

Liberals fault the economy for the drop in marriage among the less educated, while conservatives blame changing values. Both may be on to something.

The U.S. is one of six countries with no national paid leave. The Democrats have cut their plan to four weeks, which would still make it an outlier.

In many places, the debates over reopening are fraught. But in a survey, experts broadly agreed that elementary schools didn’t need vaccines to open safely.

When policymakers frame “choices” as personal preferences, it distracts from major structural constraints.

A survey suggests that pandemic-era domestic work isn’t being divided more equitably than before the lockdown.

Private schools have always had more flexibility, and usually more money, but never has that disparity made a bigger difference than now.

When balancing work and family becomes difficult, women tend to resort to caregiving and men to earning money.

Gen Z-ers and millennials have been called lazy and entitled. Could they, instead, be among the first to understand the proper role of work in life?

A study finds broad support for gender equality, but a disparity in people’s views of gender roles in public and private.

The Covid-19 public health emergency is ending. But some pandemic relief benefits, even if temporary, made way for more generous social policies.

Family life looks very different across the country, depending when women first give birth.

Evidence suggests more American women are “self-managing” their abortions.

Just one in five families will have any sort of in-person help, a new survey finds, and parents are feeling stressed and stranded.

Private schools have always had more flexibility, and usually more money, but never has that disparity made a bigger difference than now.

An analysis of 21 billion Facebook friendships, covering 84 percent of U.S. adults aged 25 to 44, puts cross-class relationships at the heart of income mobility.

The idea, a favorite of social conservatives, is now supported by several Democratic presidential candidates.

The rejection of the latest screen adaptation of the beloved novel echoes a long-held sentiment toward women-centered narratives.

Changing minds on vaccination is very difficult, but it isn’t so important when a law can change behavior.

A survey suggests that pandemic-era domestic work isn’t being divided more equitably than before the lockdown.

Experts have tips on the office routines that need to change when everyone’s working from home. Meetings, for one.

But a growing share of women over 35 say their pregnancies are coming later than they want, a new analysis found.

Just one in five families will have any sort of in-person help, a new survey finds, and parents are feeling stressed and stranded.

The pandemic has shown employees and employers alike that there’s value in working from home — at least, some of the time.

Research shows they might act more like boys when they’re young, struggling in school, but then face sexism when they’re grown.

How America’s obsession with long hours has widened the gender gap.

A study shows the Asian-American gender academic gap starts later, giving educators insight into how to help boys of all races and pointing to the influence of social pressures.

Women generally have long hours of housework and care duties on top of a job, while men have less time-sensitive chores like lawn mowing.

How America’s obsession with long hours has widened the gender gap.

Raising children has become significantly more time-consuming and expensive, amid a sense that opportunity has grown more elusive.

Raising children has become significantly more time-consuming and expensive, amid a sense that opportunity has grown more elusive.