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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.

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.