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New data confirming lower success rates for African-Americans prompt pilot studies
Women outnumber men in a raft of science courses – but when they start their careers, they find many insurmountable barriers.
A series of studies across countries and disciplines in higher education confirm that student evaluations of teaching (SET) are significantly correlated with instructor gender, with students regularly rating female instructors lower than male peers.
Observational study from 1994 to 2014
Evidence from UMETRICS Data Linked to the 2010 Census
Women only got top billing in 37 percent of medical studies published in leading journals over the past two decades.
Female Ph.D.s in science and engineering earn 31 percent less than their male cohorts one year after graduation, according to a new study in American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings. When controlling for the fact that women tend to earn degrees in fields that pay less than those in which more men earn degrees, the observed gap dropped to 11 percent. And the gap disappeared when controlling for whether the women were married and had children.
A crowdfunding project to give insights into one possible aspect of gender bias in mathematics.
The scientific community must do a better job confronting the issues facing women in science, our author writes
As long men can score points for producing mountains of output, women will never get a fair shot at academic promotion
Psychologist Tania Lombrozo and a colleague, both moms, built an academic conference keeping in mind parents who are trying to juggle the competing demands of caregiving and professional advancement.
A narrative review of empirical evidence
Female scientists face everyday, often-unintentional microaggression in the workplace, and it won't stop unless we talk about it, says Tricia Serio.
In computer science faculty hiring decisions, gender is indirectly considered through its correlation with measures like productivity, study finds
Although there has been a welcome increase in discussion about gender disparities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), broad participation of women from all backgrounds in academic STEM will not be achieved until institutions are transformed.
Transgender people are the most affected.
Women’s median annual earnings stubbornly remain about 20 percent below men’s. Why is progress stalling?
Women have come a long way in science, but plenty of work remains. After all, gender bias in science doesn't happen in a vacuum.
A collection of 150 personal stories from scientists who are combining a career in research with their roles as parents and carers, each in their own way.
Female first authorship has increased since 1994 but plateaued from 2009 to 2014
The Royal Society’s new campaign highlights the importance of life outside the laboratory
