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Persistent Underrepresentation of Women's Science in High Profile Journals
Perish Not Publish? New Study Quantifies the Lack of Female Authors in Scientific Journals
How to Tackle the Childcare-Conference Conundrum
Four concrete suggestions - for Childcare, Accommodate families, Resources, Establish social networks - are directed toward research societies and conference organizers who are willing to take a leadership role in creating solutions, either incrementally or on a large scale.
Writing Women in Mathematics into Wikipedia
Reflections upon the problems encountered when writing women in mathematics into Wikipedia.
Why Are There Few Women in Tech? Watch a Recruiting Session
New Stanford research shows how companies alienate women before they start working.
Guidance to Facilitate the Implementation of Targets to Promote Gender Equality in Research and Innovation
Open-Access Charges 'Create New Inequalities' in Publishing
Researchers at well-resourced, highly ranked universities are more likely to publish in open-access journals.
Brilliant Scientific Discoveries We Have Badass Women to Thank For
Despite numerous push-backs and disregard from male colleagues, these women persevered to make some of the greatest breakthroughs in scientific history, paving the way for millions of young women and girls to enter what was traditionally a male-dominated industry.
Negative Gender Ideologies and Gender-Science Stereotypes Are More Pervasive in Male-Dominated Academic Disciplines
Universities Urged to Do More to Nurture Women in Science
African universities have been urged to foster gender equality, parity and mentoring of girls and early career women scientists in STEM, in order to facilitate economic transformation and other developmental challenges affecting the East African region.
Better Research Thanks to More Gender Equal Staff
A new article shows that women more often apply gender perspectives in their research. A diverse research group leads to better and more accurate knowledge about the world, according to Mathias Wullum Nielsen.
Five Women Scientists in Developing Countries Win 2018 OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Awards
Five Women Scientists in Developing Countries Win 2018 OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Awards
Without Urgent Action Big and Open Data May Widen Existing Inequalities and Social Divides
Without Urgent Action Big and Open Data May Widen Existing Inequalities and Social Divides
The unsustainable nature of the digital data landscape, the quality and credibility of the data themselves, and how data sources currently represent only privileged individuals, are challenges that can be overcome, but to do so requires significant investment in key data governance priorities.