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Getting rid of harmful papers is a vital step toward reestablishing readers' trust. Next, publishers should target articles that are flawed in other ways.

Leading academics respond to government plan to end link between charter mark and research funding, amid fears that equality issues will be sidelined.

An advocacy group calls for funders and institutions to launch flexible grant and fellowship schemes and equity programmes.

EMBL will hold a virtual conference, 'The impact of the COVID-19 crisis on women in science: Challenges and solutions' on 9 September.

Centuries of bias have impeded the advance of human knowledge. As the COVID-19 pandemic makes evident, new threats may emerge suddenly. The world cannot protect itself without the intelligence and skill of half the human race.

Women's journal submission rates fell as their caring responsibilities jumped due to COVID-19. Without meaningful interventions, the trend is likely to continue.

Women leaders around the world have had considerably more success in slowing the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, and two economists based in the United Kingdom can now explain why.

Women at ETH Zurich - from the early days to the present

Research indicates that the effects of the pandemic are hitting female scientists especially hard.

Successful women in male-dominated contexts don’t always support women in early career stages. An international team of scientists show that this phenomenon is linked to the difficulties they encounter in the workplace.

Taking time out to have a child should not mean derailing a research career, says Adrienne Hopkins, lead author of LERU's new paper on family leave.

The historian has devoted her career to bringing to light the ingenious accomplishments of those who have been forgotten

The social and economic impacts of COVID-19 fall harder on women than on men. Governments need to gather data and target policy to keep all citizens equally safe, sheltered and secure.

As we slowly emerge from the coronavirus outbreak in Europe, one thing is clear - it has brought to the front various aspects of gender equality issues in Research and Innovation (R&I), writes Marcela Linkova.

The agency has outlined actions it may take to deal with bullies and harassers, but it still relies on universities to report bad behaviour.

Systemic racism, sexual harassment and institutional bias permeate a film about three female scientists, who have survived and thrived.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Wednesday the agency's headquarters building in Washington, D.C., will be named after Mary W. Jackson, the first African American female engineer at NASA.

But auditing such efforts will be difficult, while unintended consequences are always a risk, warns Athene Donald.

Unequal childcare burden blamed for fall in share of published research by women since schools shut, but funding bodies look to alleviate career impact.

Just 15% of professors at Eindhoven University of Technology were women until it introduced a radical new scheme.

Senior Anthropology professors Theodore C. Bestor, Gary Urton, and John L. Comaroff have weathered allegations of sexual harassment, including some leveled by students. But affiliates said gender issues in the department stretch beyond them.

Concerns 50 years of progress could be put into reverse unless government intervenes.

Preprints analysis suggests a disproportionate impact on early career researchers.

The pandemic has worsened longstanding sexist and racist inequalities in science pushing many of us to say 'I'm done', write 35 female scientists 

The pandemic will negatively impact the careers of women in STEM, particularly those of color, and failure to respond could jeopardize years of progress toward faculty equity. 

In this COVID-19 pandemic, emerging popular refrains like ‘we’re all in this together’ and ‘we will come through this together’
echo across media. But who is this ‘we’?

Editors of academic journals have started noticing a trend: Women - who inevitably shoulder a greater share of family responsibilities - seem to be submitting fewer papers, while men are submitting up to 50 percent more than they usually would.

I'm curious what lockdown will reveal about the 'maternal wall' that can block faculty advancement.

Don't let academia's initiatives to advance women become just another way to game the research system, urges Charikleia Tzanakou.

Policies and public health efforts have not addressed the gendered impacts of disease outbreaks. The response to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) appears no different.