This volume is a is a lively, readable, and balanced collection of articles by distinguished scholars from both sides of an often-contentious debate over the complex relationship between gender and vocation.

Is a program aimed at empowering women in science hurting the industry?

What explains the preponderance of men in math and science-based professions?

In the study of gender, large and growing bodies of good science are helping us understand the sources of human abilities and limitations, and it is time to accept their legitimacy.

Examining cognitive differences between the sexes can help us understand the sources of human abilities and limitations.

Weshould discussintractable differences between men and women, or between any other groups of people, because the refusal to confront the reality of differences has consequences.

Survey of male-female and black-white differences.

The Federal Accounting Standards Board has tried to make accounting into an exact science. It has failed, and will never succeed.