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Pay disparities at science employers outpace national average for all firms.

With our society becoming increasingly dependent on technology and STEM literacy, it’s becoming even more imperative to close the drastic gender gap that exists within STEM fields.

A survey suggests that achievement invokes gendered stereotypes that penalize women for having good grades, creating unequal returns to academic performance at labor market entry.

Even when the field of academic study is removed from the equation, women’s earnings still trail those of men by 11 percent. The reason? Family. Married women with children are paid less than those who don’t have similarly structured families. Meanwhile, men earn the same amount, regardless of their marital or parental status. 

Women who have their first child before 25 or after 35 eventually close the salary divide with their husbands. It’s the years in between that are most problematic, research shows.

"If you [only] have products created by white guys in their 20s, you’re gonna miss the mark."

Cross-sectional study investigating the potential sex differences at each faculty rank in top-ranked US academic neurology programs by comparing the number of male vs female neurologists and their level of academic productivity quantitated by publication rates and scholarly activities.

Spotlighting injustice while ignoring the solutions we put forward erases our agency.

It smacks of affirmations like ‘if you believe it, you can achieve it’, but men’s academic swagger has a dark side.

Elsevier has reported a median pay gap of 40%, more than twice the UK average of 18.4% and the highest yet reported by a publishing company.

Amidst a controversy, it’s important to remember that implicit bias is real and it matters.  The same thought processes that make people smart can also make them biased.

One major factor is the significant gender inequity that exists in the recruitment, promotion and retention of female faculty and staff scientists.

Across the UK, universities are falling behind government targets to increase female representation on their boards by 2020. What steps can they take?

I didn’t really understand how unjust the academic system was for career advancement for women until I had children  

A new study of 728 campaigns from a crowdfunding platform finds that women and students tend to do better.

The No Women No Panel Campaign initiated by Commissioner Mariya Gabriel has been supported and reiterated by several of her colleagues from the European Commission. She committed to ensuring at least one other woman is part of panels she is invited to speak at.