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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.

Stop blaming motherhood for a problem created by fathers.

A Global Approach to the Gender Gap in Mathematical, Computing, and Natural Sciences: How to Measure It, How to Reduce It?

For social science and humanities researchers in many parts of the world there are significant barriers to conducting and sharing research, in some cases more so than for science and medicine. In this guest post, Dr. Naveen Minai provides a perspective as a gender studies researcher in Pakistan.

One of the UK's leading female astronomers is to donate her GBP2.3M winnings from a major science prize she was awarded. The sum will go to fund women, under-represented ethnic minority and refugee students to become physics researchers.

Girls are equally able at STEM-related subjects at school but are reluctant to choose them for a career. That is linked to a lack of confidence. We're only just starting to tackle the problem.

Data shows 90% of engineering and physical sciences funding in UK goes to male-led projects

Mind the Gap is a role-playing game designed as a structure for dialogues which examine the gender gap.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell's skills on the radio telescope were on point. Following the discovery of pulsars, Bell Burnell faced casual sexism from the media and public as well.

The nonprofit's Summer Immersion Program aims to catch girls before their interest in computer science plummets.

Approaches that have been shown to work and those which need more evidence before they can be recommended as widespread approaches.