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Study Explores Challenges to Black Graduate Engineering Students
A new study that follows 21 Black men pursuing graduate degrees in engineering explores themes of structural racism, unfair treatment, unwelcoming environments and feelings of isolation.
Artificial Intelligence Reveals How U.S. Stereotypes About Women and Minorities Have Changed in the past 100 Years
On Being Excluded: Testimonies by People of Color in Scholarly Publishing
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.
Universities Have Too Few Women at the Top. How Can They Redress the Balance?
Universities Have Too Few Women at the Top. How Can They Redress the Balance?
Across the UK, universities are falling behind government targets to increase female representation on their boards by 2020. What steps can they take?
How Genetics Is Changing Our Understanding of Race
If scientists avoid discussing the topic candidly, racist theories will fill the vacuum.
Asthma Inhalers Fail Minority Children Due to a Lack of Diversity in Research
As a Saudi Woman Scientist, I'm Tired of Negative Stereotypes
I’ve encountered even more prejudice as a researcher from the Middle East than as a woman working in Saudi Arabia, says Malak Abedalthagafi.
UK Researchers Want Quotas to Redress Lack of Diversity
Efforts to increase diversity in research assessment panels don’t cut it.
I Didn't Think There Were Many African Women Scientists. Then I Checked Twitter
I Didn't Think There Were Many African Women Scientists. Then I Checked Twitter
The website Levers in Heels, which features African women in STEM, in January called on the internet to tweet the names of African women scientists. People shared hundreds.
Black STEM Employees Perceive a Range of Race-Related Slights and Inequities at Work
Roughly six-in-ten black STEM workers say they have experienced any of eight specific forms of racial or ethnic discrimination at work.
Ethnicity Cannot Be Counted
Counting the number of women and men is considered to be rather unproblematic. But how do you measure diversity?
As Science Becomes More International, Scientific Editorial Boards Lag Behind
As Science Becomes More International, Scientific Editorial Boards Lag Behind
Editors of scientific journals are a far less diverse group than the scientists in scientific publications.
Lost Einsteins: The Innovations We're Missing
Income and gender make a big difference in who winds up inventing.
Groundbreaking Empirical Research Shows Where Innovation Really Comes From
Groundbreaking Empirical Research Shows Where Innovation Really Comes From
The secret to unlocking innovation isn’t tax cuts - it’s equality.