Teaching Gender Equality Can Help Tackle Sexual Harassment
Schools must encourage young people to question gender norms and behaviours, and ensure that sex education goes beyond biology
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Female Grant Applicants Are Equally Successful When Peer Reviewers Assess the Science, but Not When They Assess the Scientist
"It Gnaws Away at Me": Female Scientists Report a Horrifying Culture of Sexual Assault
Sowing the Seeds of Diversity in Engineering
Only 14 percent of all engineers in the U.S. today are women, and the gender imbalance continues, or even worsens, when women enter the workforce.
Harassment in Science Is Real
"…cultural change rests with individual scientists, teams, and professional societies."
Rwanda's First All-Female University Is Training Up The Next Generation Of Women Leaders
The "Gender Factory"
How the Swiss education system (re)produces inequalities between women and men.
STEM Programs Still Missing Mark with Women
The latest 2016 Canadian census information was released this week. Lots of statistics relating to labour, education, commutes to work and migration, among other things.
STEM Degrees Rise, but Disparities Remain
Though women earn significantly more bachelor’s degrees than men, they are substantially less likely to obtain a degree in science, technology, engineering or math.
Women Trailblazers in Science
Various women who have inspired us for their trailblazing efforts in science.
The Cost of Devaluing Women
We all lose because of the biases of Wall Street and Silicon Valley.
NASA Engineer, 81, Has Worked at Agency Longer Than Any Woman
Sue Finley began working at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory three days before the US space program launched its first satellite.
Lost Einsteins: The Innovations We're Missing
Income and gender make a big difference in who winds up inventing.
Could the Fourth Industrial Revolution Combat Inequality?
New technologies like artificial intelligence, self-driving vehicles and the internet of things could be used to reduce the widening economic gulf that is emerging in modern societies.
'I've Been Mistaken for the Coffee Lady'
Experiences of black female academics. A new book explores ther career trajectories.
The Female Tech Bosses Who Want Zebras Not Unicorns
A new movement calls for tech investors to back more start-ups led by women and people from ethnic minorities.
Gender Equality from a European Perspective: Myth and Reality
Academia needs to carefully evaluate why new family friendly policies have not been very effective.
STEMM Equality Congress, Amsterdam - Oct 2018
STEMM Equality Congress (SEC) is an annual two day event that looks at ways of addressing equality and diversity in STEMM through policy, practice and collaboration. 2018's Congress will be held in Amsterdam.
A Link between Author Gender and Attention to Gender and Sex Analysis
An analysis of a large database of medical research papers shows a correlation between women's authorship and the likelihood of a study including gender and sex analysis.
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