Lady Wranglers By Joy Rankin After excelling at math throughout elementary school, my eighth grade Honors Algebra teacher - a woman - proclaimed that girls were not capable of the abstraction required by mathematics from that point on. My story was not – and is not – uncommon. Girls and young women are still discouraged from math at all levels, and I’ve been increasingly curious about where this pernicious idea came from, how people have tried to address it, and why it persists. (more…) Read More...