Financial Times journalist Carola Hoyos and I are guests on The Broad Experience, a podcast about women, the workplace, and success. The episode is called The Pace of Progress, and you can listen to it here.
This great infographic illustrates some of the reasons girls get less education than boys around the world, and some of the benefits of trying to change that.
Improvements in standard of living and access to education lead to enhanced cognitive skills for everyone, but women are showing greater gains than men. This new research shows that gaps between men and women are more about ‘nurture’ and less about ‘nature.’