Gender and status affect how humor comes across at work, research suggests. The findings show that humor in the workplace can be more challenging for women than for men. Factors include a woman’s ...

This post is in response to Are Women More Attracted to Men Who Court Them with Humor? By Gil Greengross Ph.D. Professor Peter McGraw and writer Joel Warner have teamed up to explore the science of ...

BOULDER — Lucy Sanders’ memorable moment No. 1: traveling to New Jersey with her husband to accept the Bell Labs Fellow Award, the highest honor bestowed on about a half-dozen company scientists and ...

Cracking jokes in the office might seem like a shortcut to likability or leadership. But new research shows that humor at ...

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As their plane is going down, the woman turns to the man next to her. “Make me a woman before I die,” she says. He takes off all his clothes, hands them to her and says, “Fold these.” One of the best ...

This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. A few years ago, ...

Silicon Valley can no longer ignore its gender-discrimination problem, but will the brilliant men who disrupted so many other industries be able to innovate their way to a solution? These five ...

You don't need to visit too many high-tech cube farms and computer programming confabs before you notice that women in computer science are few and far between. In a new book entitled "Unlocking the ...

At the most selective schools, the gender gap in computer science and engineering is nearly closed. skynesher/E+ via Getty Images The share of computer science and engineering degrees going to women ...