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For decades, the medical field has dismissed female health concerns. Women have been told that they’re imagining signs of heart attacks and other life-threatening ailments and had few resources devoted to researching their medical problems, but, at last, that seems to be changing.

Jess Wade and Maryam Zaringhalam discuss the implications of poor diversity in physics - and what can be done to create a level playing field in the subject

New research finds that even under blind review, women score lower than men when applying for grants. The reason? The words they use.

The open source world's diversity problem could actually make the larger tech industry's entrenched imbalances worse.

This week saw a sober assessment of the impact - both positive but also depressingly negative - of schemes to improve gender equality.

It's rare to see women and people of color in medical textbooks, researcher Rhiannon Parker says.

Dr. Uhlenbeck helped pioneer geometric analysis, developing techniques now commonly used by many mathematicians.

My recent reporting has highlighted why racial exclusion in "the queen of the sciences'' may matter most of all.

Female scientists are less likely to win research dollars from the federal government's grant agency (CIHR), when the grant application is reviewed based on the scientist leading the project, rather than the proposal.

Promising immunizations for diseases that affect mostly people in low- and middle-income countries need help getting to market.

The major machine-learning meeting, now known as NeurIPS, has faced increasing criticism over its name.

A move to classify people on the basis of anatomy or genetics should be abandoned.

New rules requiring a female presence on doctoral defence panels at the University of Glasgow will push more ‘unrewarded’ academic tasks on to women, critics claim.

A statement by the High Energy Physics Community about a talk given at CERN by Alessandro Strumia, a well-known particle theorist who is a Professor of Physics at the University of Pisa and a current associate of the theory department at CERN. He argued that the primary explanation for the discrepancies between men and women in theoretical physics is that women are inherently less capable.

The SNSF promotes women in research with the PRIMA funding scheme and its equality grants. A legal opinion now confirms that these equality measures are not just legally valid. They are necessary.

This year’s nearly 50-50 split for the Pioneer and EIA awards of NIH shows women did disproportionately well.

More than 80 girls from 34 African countries attended the first Coding Camp in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for 10 days in August 2018.

Maria Goeppert Mayer was relegated to unpaid and "volunteer" positions for most of her academic career.

A new working group will document the extent of sexual harassment in Norwegian academia. Now Sweden is encouraging Norway to follow its lead and set aside money for research in this area.

The Swiss Science Council reports that according to recent statistics, the gender gap in the technical sciences and engineering fields is still disproportionately high in Europe and North America. European countries with high-income have a surprisingly low proportion of female engineers in research and industry, in comparison to developing countries like Eastern Europe, Central and South Asia and Latin America.

Australia's parliament has a problem retaining experienced women. As a workplace, it's not alone.

We're working to get copies of Angela Saini's Inferior into all of New York City's middle and high schools.

Male post-docs and PhD candidates work more than their female colleagues, but female professors work the most hours of all, according to the latest time use survey.

An algebra pioneer who faced discrimination deserves wider recognition on the centenary of her namesake theorem.

The acceptance rate for eLife manuscripts with male last authors was significantly higher than for female last authors, and this gender inequity was greatest when the team of reviewers was all male; mixed-gender gatekeeper teams lead to more equitable peer review outcomes.

Without affirmative action through gender quotas and targets, we will have another 30 years of glacial progress on gender equity in academia.

The "mothers work less" hypothesis supported for German but not for U.S. early career researchers.