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While there were significant gains during much of the 20th century, feminist progress in the academy has slowed and may have already come to a halt. Overarching essay provides many references.

In 2012 a nongendered pronoun dropped into Swedish discourse. Today it's widely used-and it's nudging people to see the world a little differently.

For decades, the medical field has dismissed female health concerns. Women have been told that they’re imagining signs of heart attacks and other life-threatening ailments and had few resources devoted to researching their medical problems, but, at last, that seems to be changing.

A comprehensive analysis of longitudinal gender discrepancies in performance through a bibliometric analysis of academic careers.

"Manned" spaceflight doesn't make sense anymore.

Jessica Wade has added nearly 700 Wikipedia biographies for important female and minority scientists in less than two years.

Just 28% of the world’s researchers are women, but Eastern Europe bucks this global trend. The Soviet legacy is part of the reason.

We can't let that happen to women working on climate science today

The science of medicine is based on male bodies, but researchers are beginning to realize how vastly the symptoms of disease differ between the sexes - and how much danger women are in.

New research finds that even under blind review, women score lower than men when applying for grants. The reason? The words they use.

The open source world's diversity problem could actually make the larger tech industry's entrenched imbalances worse.

This week saw a sober assessment of the impact - both positive but also depressingly negative - of schemes to improve gender equality.

A comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of Computer Science literature reveals that, if current trends continue, parity between the number of male and female authors will not be reached in this century.

A Dutch engineering university is taking radical action to increase its share of female academics by opening job vacancies to women only.

Francis Collins pledged to decline to speak at conferences that do not include enough women in prominent speaking roles.

We are scientists from various disciplines and we will go on strike on 14 June 2019. Women* are systematically underrepresented to a great degree at Swiss higher education institutions. 

The history of science has often seen women's work overlooked and their credit stolen.

Women are protesting against the slow pace of change, calling for "more money, time and respect".

NIH director will no longer participate in all-male panels.

Hundreds of thousands protest against ‘culture of sexism in everday life’.

Men reach more senior levels than women, even after parenthood is accounted for, research suggests.

Female animals were once deemed too hormonal and messy for science. Some scientists warn it's not enough to just use more female lab rats.

Support from mainstream diversity initiatives would create a virtuous circle of visibility and benefit science for all, urges Jon Freeman.

This article presents a new initiative from the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden (CWTS), to assess gender inequality in research publication across different institutions internationally and drive further change in the sector.

The 2019 edition of the CWTS Leiden Ranking introduces indicators of open access publishing and gender diversity. 

Following charges against a female scientist, some faculty at Switzerland's elite universities say the country has a gender equity problem.

Grant reviewers favour 'broad' words used more often by men, but proposals using those terms don't produce better research.

As young scientists, we are fooled into working harder and longer to live up to sky-high expectations and encouraged to feel inadequate.

Blinded review is an increasingly popular approach to reducing bias and increasing diversity in the selection of people and projects. We explore the impact of blinded review on gender inclusion in research grant proposals submitted to the Gates Foundation from 2008-2017. Despite blinded review, female applicants receive significantly lower scores.

Survey of undergraduate women finds that most experienced some type of unwanted sexual attention during their physics studies. "A lot of times, people study how women can change to better fit in a field or be more successful. Perhaps physics needs to think about changing itself.”