LOS ANGELES — “Yes, it’s true. Women do run the world,” the head of a females-only spy agency tells four schoolgirl recruits in “Project Mc2,” Netflix’s new series for tweens. But spinning reality isn ...

When Isaac Larian was a civil engineering student at California State University, Los Angeles in the late 1970s, he had one female classmate. “Frankly, she was the smartest one,” Larian told me. “When ...