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Even when the field of academic study is removed from the equation, women’s earnings still trail those of men by 11 percent. The reason? Family. Married women with children are paid less than those who don’t have similarly structured families. Meanwhile, men earn the same amount, regardless of their marital or parental status.
Cross-sectional study investigating the potential sex differences at each faculty rank in top-ranked US academic neurology programs by comparing the number of male vs female neurologists and their level of academic productivity quantitated by publication rates and scholarly activities.
It smacks of affirmations like ‘if you believe it, you can achieve it’, but men’s academic swagger has a dark side.
Elsevier has reported a median pay gap of 40%, more than twice the UK average of 18.4% and the highest yet reported by a publishing company.
Firsthand account about the experience of racism in scholarly publishing, showing we have "a great deal of powerful and humbling work to do" to address racism and the white-dominated culture of our industry.
Across the UK, universities are falling behind government targets to increase female representation on their boards by 2020. What steps can they take?
Gender and the ethics of care in the neoliberal accelerated academy.
I didn’t really understand how unjust the academic system was for career advancement for women until I had children
The No Women No Panel Campaign initiated by Commissioner Mariya Gabriel has been supported and reiterated by several of her colleagues from the European Commission. She committed to ensuring at least one other woman is part of panels she is invited to speak at.
A new study of 728 campaigns from a crowdfunding platform finds that women and students tend to do better.
Looking at of the gender gap in 50 years of publications in astronomy and astrophysics.
Countries that are generally more egalitarian, or that have institutions more conductive to equality, have a lower gender performance gap in math, suggesting that this gap is partly shaped by more general societal inequalities.
Rather than simply complaining about the lack of women, the researchers at EPFL decided to walk the talk by launching GirlsCoding.
Women shouldn't have to shoulder the burden of solving gender inequality on social media: by visibly contradicting stereotypes about female scientists, it is clear that they hope to inspire girls to pursue science and to encourage female scientists to showcase their femininity in our male-dominated workspaces.
