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A report on the status of women faculty at EPFL outlines common challenges faced by women professors, and more importantly, recommendations on how to move forward.

Taking time out to have a child should not mean derailing a research career, says Adrienne Hopkins, lead author of LERU's new paper on family leave.

Acknowledge the history. Revise your work. Refuse to be complicit.

Early analyses suggest that female academics are posting fewer preprints and starting fewer research projects than their male peers.

Concerns 50 years of progress could be put into reverse unless government intervenes.

The pandemic will negatively impact the careers of women in STEM, particularly those of color, and failure to respond could jeopardize years of progress toward faculty equity. 

A coronavirus vaccine won't stop the pandemic without all countries having access to it.

Due to precautionary measures in regard to the coronavirus, the second day of this year's Open Science Conference got canceled. Luckily, the panellists Johanna Havemann, Anne-Floor Scholvinck, Daniel Spichtinger and August Wierling agreed to submit their opening statements as a blog post.

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

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

Researchers from racial and ethnic groups that are under-represented in US geoscience are the least likely to be offered opportunities to speak at the field's biggest meeting.

Centuries of female exclusion has meant women's diseases are often missed, misdiagnosed or remain a total mystery.

Is there a diversity issue in international science prizes? We explore this issue and ask our members and the scientific community to share their ideas by taking our online survey.

In the overlay publishing model, a journal performs refereeing services, but it doesn’t publish articles on its website. Rather, the journal’s website links to final article versions hosted on an online repository. Some editors share why they chose to publish their journals via the arXiv overlay model and how they believe overlay journals will contribute to greater equity in OA.

GENDERACTION developed specific “criteria of good practice” which can be used to assess national ERA Roadmaps and individual gender equality policies.

The factors are complicated, but they tie broadly back to America's history of systemic racism. 

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.