How did Lego become a gender battleground?
A palaeontologist, an astronomer, a chemist - into the pantheon of children's toys stride three new Lego characters. Not so surprising. Except the scientists are all female.
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Survey of academic field experiences (SAFE): trainees report harassment and assault
Survey of academic field experiences (SAFE): trainees report harassment and assault
Young researchers, especially women, are more likely to be sexually harassed or assaulted when they are doing fieldwork than in the office.
New efforts to maximize fairness in NIH peer-review
The NIH is working on multiple fronts to get to the bottom of unexplained racial disparities in R01 grant funding and to maximize fairness in NIH peer review.
Inequalities in science
Little attention has been paid to the large, changing inequalities in the world of scientific research.
Discrimination starts even before grad school, study finds
Instructors at 259 US institutions were, on average, more likely to respond to fake email requests for mentoring if the senders' names sounded white and male.
A picture of the UK scientific workforce
A lack of diversity in terms of gender, disability, ethnicity, socio-economic status and background across the scientific community represents a large loss of talent to the UK.
Biomedical research's unpaid debt
NIH's initiative to support and implement fairer competition for minority students is a welcome step to redress the exploitation of African Americans by science.
Women trail men in securing research council grants
Research Councils UK analysis reveals gender difference in success rates
How stereotypes impair women's careers in science
Without provision of information about candidates other than their appearance, men are twice more likely to be hired for a mathematical task than women. If ability is self-reported, women still are discriminated against, because employers do not fully account for men’s tendency to boast about performance.
In Academia, Women Collaborate Less With Their Same-Sex Juniors
Study of psychology departments finds that female full professors are less likely to co-author papers with lower ranking women
How to level the playing field for women in science
The good news: Many more women than ever before are completing Ph.D.'s in the sciences. Back in 2000, when I was appointed the first female dean of the graduate division at the University of California at Berkeley, I was delighted to learn that about half of the incoming doctoral students in the biological sciences-and more than 30 percent in heavily male fields like chemistry and engineering-were women.
Female students start to show more interest in science and engineering
The number of female students considering university courses in STEM subjects has seen a bigger increase over the last seven years than for male students, according to new research.
Scientific diversity interventions
Although the representation of women and racial or ethnic minorities within the scientific community has increased in recent decades, the overall pace of diversification remains relatively slow.
Absent from the Academy
A movement exploring the absence of Black Professors in UK higher education institutions.
Do men control the key student societies at university?
My campus survey shows a lack of female leadership in areas where women are underrepresented later in life.
Does it matter that there aren't more women in science?
A bibliometric analysis in Nature purports to confirm that women scientists are discriminated against. But the full picture might be much more interesting.
Global gender disparities in science
Cassidy R. Sugimoto and colleagues present a bibliometric analysis confirming that gender imbalances persist in research output worldwide.
Women scientists less likely to receive funding
Researchers uncovered evidence of women scientists working in the field of infectious diseases being disadvantaged in crucial funding allocations for more than a decade in the UK.
Sex and gender analysis policies of major granting agencies
A variety of international, national, and private granting organizations require sex and gender analysis.
Six steps to fairer funding for female scientists
Although approximately 50% of PhD students and postdoctoral scientists are female, males run the majority of research laboratories. Despite some reform over the past three decades, there is still an exodus of female scientists from academic research at the transitional stage between a postdoctoral researcher and laboratory head.
We need to talk about sexism in science
The events that culminated in the resignation of Bora Zivkovic from Scientific American last week demonstrate that women in science face a long struggle to root out sexism.
The gender gap map in science
A portrait from UNESCO shows where women are well represented among employed scientists, and where they are rare.
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