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Study Finds Men Speak Twice as Often as Do Women at Colloquiums
Study finds that men speak twice as often as women do at colloquiums, a difference that can't be explained away by rank, speaker pool composition or women's interest in giving talks.
Women Are Invited to Give Fewer Talks Than Men at Top U.S. Universities
It’s not because they turn down talks more often, or because there aren’t enough women to invite.
Girls Led to Science, Coding by Retired Educator Who Saw the Need for High-tech Options
Why It's Crucial to Get More Women Into Science
The number of women in scientific research continues to lag behind the number of men, even though women make up half the nation's workforce. The question is, What difference does it make?
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
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.