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Bell Burnell: Physics Star Gives Away GBP2.3M Prize
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.
Talent Isn't Keeping Women Away from Science. Sexism, Stereotypes and Bad Science Are
Talent Isn't Keeping Women Away from Science. Sexism, Stereotypes and Bad Science Are
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.
Gender and International Diversity Improves Equity in Peer Review
Gender and International Diversity Improves Equity in Peer Review
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.
Guest Post: Challenges for Academics in the Global South - Resource Constraints, Institutional Issues, and Infrastructural Problems
Guest Post: Challenges for Academics in the Global South - Resource Constraints, Institutional Issues, and Infrastructural Problems
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.
Minding the Gender Gap
Mind the Gap is a role-playing game designed as a structure for dialogues which examine the gender gap.
This Woman Discovered Scintillating Deep-Space Objects, and Her Male Colleague Got the Nobel Prize
This Woman Discovered Scintillating Deep-Space Objects, and Her Male Colleague Got the Nobel Prize
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.
Girls Who Code Encourages STEM, One Coding Class at a Time
The nonprofit's Summer Immersion Program aims to catch girls before their interest in computer science plummets.
Tokyo Medical School Admits Changing Results to Exclude Women
Tokyo Medical School Admits Changing Results to Exclude Women
University manipulated test scores for more than a decade to ensure more men became doctors.
Using Artificial Intelligence to Fix Wikipedia's Gender Problem
A software tool uses machine-learning algorithms to scour news articles and scientific citations to find notable scientists missing from Wikipedia.
Learn How to Keep the STEM Door Open for Your Daughter
Regardless of her interests, it's easy to get your daughter interested in science and math. The author of 'Count Girls In' provides easy ways to promote STEM for girls.
Science Career Ads Are Disproportionately Seen by Men
Marketing algorithms prevent many women from seeing the advertising, even though it’s illegal to target jobs to one gender.
Illuminating Women's Hidden Contribution to the Foundation of Theoretical Population Genetics
Illuminating Women's Hidden Contribution to the Foundation of Theoretical Population Genetics
A study documenting acknowledgment sections and identified "acknowledged programmers" in Theoretical Population Biology articles published between 1970 and 1990. While only 7% of authors were women, 43% of acknowledged programmers were women.
New Statement on Women and Computer Science
An instructor at the University of Washington set off a major debate there and elsewhere over his recent essay in which he says that the low proportion of women in computer science is at this point largely a result of women's choices and is unlikely to change. University officials immediately disputed his claims.
What Most Companies Get Wrong About Men and Woman
Research shows the sexes aren’t so different. The solution to women’s lagged advancement is not to fix women or their managers but to fix the conditions that undermine women and reinforce gender stereotypes.
Visibility Matters: A Conversation with the Co-Founder of 500 Queer Scientists
Fighting Sexual Harassment in Science May Mean Changing Science Itself
Diversity Begets Diversity: A Global Perspective on Gender Equality in Scientific Society Leadership
Editors of Major Political Science Journals Demonstrate No Systematic Bias Against Female Authors
Editors of Major Political Science Journals Demonstrate No Systematic Bias Against Female Authors
Study says editors of major political science journals demonstrate no systematic bias against female authors. Yet women authors remain underrepresented in the field. Why?
Female Historians Try to End the I-Didn’t-Know-Any-Women Excuse for Men-Only Panels
A new database of female historians joins a growing group of lists that aim to promote a more diverse group of experts. Such databases have previously been more common in the hard sciences.
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