United States and Europe. The gender gap in research funding has closed at the National Science Foundation and National … Institutes of Health in the United States and substantially narrowed in Europe. Underrepresented minorities are less likely to …

Contrary to popular narratives, 'The Great Divergence Reconsidered' shows that Europe's rise to its current status as … seventeenth century, if not earlier. When compared to India and other parts of the Asiatic world, early modern Europe was … changes and made Europe's supremacy even more pronounced. Thus, an interplay of various factors best explains Europe's early …