You’d think that as a host of a baking competition show, Emmy-winning comedian Nicole Byer would be into baking—but you’d be wrong. Or that as a Virgo, she’d be a hands-on, “Let me get that for you” ...

Reflecting a generational change, two Pew surveys show boys tend to feel discouraged in the classroom, and are less likely than girls to pursue college. By Claire Cain Miller In the 1980s and ...