SEATTLE (SEATTLE POST) -- You can blame the schools and media, but dads play a big role in getting their daughters engaged in math and science, University of Michigan researchers report.

The idea that fewer women prosper in math and science is one of today's burning and controversial questions - the debate even helped one Ivy League president lose his job. UM researchers found the gap begins at home, where parents offer more math to their sons than daughters. @H=Women more depressed after heart attack @T=EDMONTON, Alberta (UPI) -- Women are more likely than men to have lingering depression after suffering heart attacks, Canadian researchers said. A study by the University of Alberta and McGill University found that 14.3 percent of women had worsening depression one year after their initial myocardial infarctions. Eleven percent of men studied had a similar experience. "The findings are of concern because depression impedes recovery and ultimately, the quality of life in patients following a heart event," said lead author Colleen Norris, an associate professor in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, said Friday in a release. @H=Muslim women could keep head scarves for DMV photos @T=CINCINNATI (AP) -- Two Muslim women had the right to continue wearing their head scarves when sitting for a driver's license photo, the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles said. Clerks at separate bureau offices in southwest Ohio were wrong to insist that the women remove the scarves, also known as hijabs, which are expressions of faith and modesty, said Tom Hunter, spokesman for the Department of Public Safety, which oversees the motor vehicles bureau. The bureau's offices in Loveland and Mason retook the photos for free. @H=First step to register pregnancies @T=NEW DELHI (Hindustan Times) -- The Union Health Ministry and Women and Child Development Ministry will start registering pregnancies in 10 blocks shortly, the government said on Friday. The project — a first of its type which received flak from many women’s organizations — will be used to prepare a database of pregnancies and keep a track on the number of pregnancies that ultimately result in childbirth. @H=Commemorative stamps issued for Nepal women @T=NEPAL (Cricinfo) -- The Nepal Philatelic Society lent its support to the national women's side by bringing out 500 commemorative stamps to mark Nepal's first-ever international match. The cover was published just before Nepal's inaugural game of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) women's tournament against Thailand at Johor in Malaysia. Nepal won the match by 55 runs. "I hope that the girls will bring back some amount of success in their first attempt," Binaya Raj Pandey, the president of Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN), told nepalcricket.com. The cover, which oddly has a picture of foreign teams playing cricket, also includes an inset of the Nepal men's side. Earlier this year a five-rupee stamp was issued to celebrate the success of the men's team