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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.

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

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.

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.

The coronavirus will reveal the different realities of women and men in Europe.

How, then, does an agency like NSF—which has considerable influence but limited direct authority—work with the community and other institutions to implement change on issues that cannot wait? The case of NSF's work to combat harassment in the science community, a persistent problem for decades that remains shockingly widespread, is illustrative.

Unlike the financial crash of 2008, this downturn will likely lead to more job losses for women, according to new research.

As the Board of Reviewing Editors reaches 500, we reflect on recent recruitment efforts.

European academia still trailing on gender equality, particularly for leadership roles

Women are seriously under-represented in the engineering world - but they can problem-solve from a uniquely impactful perspective.

Analysis of 75 countries reveals 'shocking' scale of global women's rights backlash.

The initiative to ensure that qualified women have a place at the Academy.

A study suggests that the productivity and impact of gender differences are explained by different publishing career lengths and dropout rates. This inequality in academic publishing has important consequences for institutions and policy makers.

Our largest encyclopedia overwhelmingly recognises the achievements of white men. For physicist Jess Wade, fighting this bias has been an uphill battle to ensure that the scientific contributions made by women and other under-represented communities aren’t lost to posterity.

A physicist from Imperial College London is on a mission to bust what she calls the "big misconception" about scientists. Dr Jess Wade started to create and edit Wikipedia pages at the beginning of 2018 to "better represent women and people of colour" on the online encyclopedia. She's now amassed a portfolio of more than 900 new pages but says the project is about more than the numbers. Speaking to ITV News on International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Dr Wade said: "Something magical can happen if you stumble across a profile that looks a bit like you. "You realise you could be like that too".

New research finds male college students are more likely to ask for grade changes.

The measurements used to make the original argument made very little sense.