European academia still trailing on gender equality, particularly for leadership roles

Analysis of 75 countries reveals 'shocking' scale of global women's rights backlash.

The initiative to ensure that qualified women have a place at the Academy.

A physicist from Imperial College London is on a mission to bust what she calls the "big misconception" about scientists. Dr Jess Wade started to create and edit Wikipedia pages at the beginning of 2018 to "better represent women and people of colour" on the online encyclopedia. She's now amassed a portfolio of more than 900 new pages but says the project is about more than the numbers. Speaking to ITV News on International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Dr Wade said: "Something magical can happen if you stumble across a profile that looks a bit like you. "You realise you could be like that too".

New research finds male college students are more likely to ask for grade changes.

The measurements used to make the original argument made very little sense.

The government is being told to act over a "lack of visible role models for girls" in science. Here's a whole array they could use.

Gender quotas have improved female representation on internal panels, but researchers have highlighted that the loss of research time slows career progression.

As AI gets more talkative, designers need to consider the ethics of gendering not just voices, but the finer nuances of speech patterns.

A physicist has become embroiled in a sexism row with Wikipedia after profiles she created for female scientists were removed because they were "not notable enough".

Proportions of female students and those from under-represented ethnic groups are rising, yet parity is a way off.

Analysis finds female-led papers are more likely to be rejected, and less likely to be cited, than those with male corresponding authors.

In this article, potentially high-impact policy changesare outlined that build upon existing mechanisms for research funding and governance and that can be rapidly implemented to counteract barriers facing women in science. These approaches must be coupled to vigorous and continuous outcomes-based monitoring, so that the most successful strategies can be disseminated and widely implemented.

After the euphoria of 2018, this year's Nobel prizes in chemistry, medicine and physics have again all been awarded to men. Here are three ways to encourage change.

Are fewer women named Nobel laureates just because there have been fewer women scientists?

Data from a four-year study of institutional 'report cards' undertaken as part of the New York Stem Cell Foundation's (NYSCF) Initiative on Women in Science and Engineering (IWISE) suggest that although a growing number of women are training in the sciences, efforts to promote and maintain women in more senior scientific roles are still largely inadequate. The study is being reported Sept. 5 in the journal Cell Stem Cell.