What's behind the gender imbalance in top-level chess?
- Written by David Smerdon, Assistant Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
Unlike the wildly popular Netflix chess-themed series The Queen’s Gambit, female players have struggled to climb to the top of the real-life chess world. Just 37 of the more than 1,600 international chess grandmasters are women. The current top-rated female, Hou Yifan, is ranked 89th in the world, while the reigning women’s world...





