Susan Pinker is a Canadian psychologist, author, and social science columnist for The Wall Street Journal.

Pinker spent 25 years in clinical practice and teaching psychology, first at Dawson College, then at McGill University.

[1] Pinker writes about new findings in behavioral science in the Mind and Matter column, which appears Saturdays in the Wall Street Journal.

[2] Pinker's book, The Sexual Paradox: Men, Women and the Real Gender Gap, is focused on how sex differences play out in the workplace.

If the majority of children with school and behavioral problems are boys, then why do so many overcome early obstacles, while rafts of high achieving women choose jobs that pay less or opt out at pivotal moments in their careers?