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Women and Men in STEM Often at Odds Over Workplace Equity

Women and Men in STEM Often at Odds Over Workplace Equity

Women in STEM jobs are more likely than their male counterparts to have experienced discrimination in the workplace and to believe that discrimination is a major reason there are not more women in STEM.

Why Aren’t There More Women in Science and Technology?

Why Aren’t There More Women in Science and Technology?

New evidence on why more women don’t choose STEM fields for careers points to their strengths on reading tests.

Perish Not Publish? New Study Quantifies the Lack of Female Authors in Scientific Journals

Perish Not Publish? New Study Quantifies the Lack of Female Authors in Scientific Journals

Women are underrepresented in academic science. New research finds the problem is even worse in terms of who authors high-profile journal articles – bad news for women's career advancement.

How to Tackle the Childcare-Conference Conundrum

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.

Curt Rice Wants Just as Many Female as Male Nobel Candidates

Curt Rice Wants Just as Many Female as Male Nobel Candidates

Rice was invited by the Nobel Foundation to give a presentation to all the Nobel committees on gender equality, why it is important and what can be done.

Why Are There Few Women in Tech? Watch a Recruiting Session

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

Guidance to Facilitate the Implementation of Targets to Promote Gender Equality in Research and Innovation

Recommendations to facilitate the implementation of guiding targets in research institutions and higher education establishments as requested by the Council of the EU.

Women & Girls in Science: Working Together to Fix the Leaky Pipeline

Women & Girls in Science: Working Together to Fix the Leaky Pipeline

Currently, the biggest challenge facing women in science in Switzerland is the striking gender imbalance that exists at the highest rungs of the academic ladder.

Brilliant Scientific Discoveries We Have Badass Women to Thank For

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

Negative Gender Ideologies and Gender-Science Stereotypes Are More Pervasive in Male-Dominated Academic Disciplines

Investigating whether male-dominated academic environments were characterized by gender ideologies with negative implications for women.

Better Research Thanks to More Gender Equal Staff

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

Early-career researchers living and working in Bangladesh, Cameroon, Ecuador, Guyana, and Indonesia have been recognized for their work in mathematics, physics and chemistry.

Five Women Scientists in Developing Countries Win 2018 OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Awards

Five Women Scientists in Developing Countries Win 2018 OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Awards

Early-career researchers living and working in Bangladesh, Cameroon, Ecuador, Guyana, and Indonesia have been recognized for their work in mathematics, physics and chemistry.

Coding Has No Gender

Coding Has No Gender

With 11 February marking the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, female physicists, engineers and computer scientists from CERN and from Fermilab share their experiences of building a career in science.

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.

Women Working for Wellcome Trust "Earn 21% Less Than Men" on Average

Women Working for Wellcome Trust "Earn 21% Less Than Men" on Average

The pay imbalance is linked to a disproportionate number of men in the top jobs, especially to the performance bonuses offered to senior members of the investments team, all of whom were men.