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On Ada Lovelace Day, we should rethink access to scientific fields, says researcher Jess Wade.

CERN considers the presentation delivered by an invited scientist during a workshop on High Energy Theory and Gender as highly offensive. It has therefore decided to remove the slides from the online repository, in line with a Code of Conduct that does not tolerate personal attacks and insults.

October meeting in Germany reverses the usual gender ratio

US agency plans to create a central reporting system and launch training and education campaigns.

The National Science Foundation's rules for reporting harassment by grant recipients are the strictest yet instituted by a US government science agency.

The Swiss Science Council reports that according to recent statistics, the gender gap in the technical sciences and engineering fields is still disproportionately high in Europe and North America. European countries with high-income have a surprisingly low proportion of female engineers in research and industry, in comparison to developing countries like Eastern Europe, Central and South Asia and Latin America.

We're working to get copies of Angela Saini's Inferior into all of New York City's middle and high schools.

Six researchers offer tips for navigating through and beyond gender barriers.

Male post-docs and PhD candidates work more than their female colleagues, but female professors work the most hours of all, according to the latest time use survey.

An algebra pioneer who faced discrimination deserves wider recognition on the centenary of her namesake theorem.

Without affirmative action through gender quotas and targets, we will have another 30 years of glacial progress on gender equity in academia.

The "mothers work less" hypothesis supported for German but not for U.S. early career researchers.

Stop blaming motherhood for a problem created by fathers.

The Ad Council - along with G.E., Google, IBM, Microsoft and Verizon - is trying to encourage girls ages 11 to 15 to get involved in science, technology, engineering and math.

A Global Approach to the Gender Gap in Mathematical, Computing, and Natural Sciences: How to Measure It, How to Reduce It?

With weapons ranging from Title IX complaints to online petitions to creating new policies for federally funded agencies, #MeToo has entered the research lab.

Even after reading every single related news article, it is still worth reading the 300-plus page National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine report on Sexual Harassment in its entirety. The report lays out why academia is fundamentally broken and incapable of dealing with harassment.

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.

Approaches that have been shown to work and those which need more evidence before they can be recommended as widespread approaches.

University manipulated test scores for more than a decade to ensure more men became doctors.

Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed - and what hasn’t.

Of the 60 Fields Medal winners since it’s launch in 1936 only one is female.

Here we pay tribute to some of the most courageous, innovative, and determined genius female inventors while we walk through their remarkable discoveries and try to imagine how hard it was for them at times.

Even at companies run by prominent women — where it seems that gender diversity has made great strides — why is a female leader hardly ever replaced by another woman?

Researcher Jess Wade says efforts to attract girls into science are not evidence-based – and are not working.

Sarah Tesh and Jess Wade describe Jocelyn Bell Burnell’s highs and lows, as revealed in her recent IOP President’s Medal lecture.

After studying 23,005 comments left on videos about science and related topics, a researcher says, “I could see why people would not want to be on YouTube.”

Performance evaluations are designed to be meritocratic. Unfortunately, they can exacerbate the very gender inequities they are striving to reduce.

The same gender disparity goes for politicians, athletes, and other high-profile figures