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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.

The nonprofit's Summer Immersion Program aims to catch girls before their interest in computer science plummets.

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.

Marketing algorithms prevent many women from seeing the advertising, even though it’s illegal to target jobs to one gender.

Regardless of her interests, it's easy to get your daughter interested in science and math. The author of 'Count Girls In' provides easy ways to promote STEM for girls.

Despite the expansion of global Internet coverage and open access journals, research from outside of the United States and Europe is underrepresented.

An instructor at the University of Washington set off a major debate there and elsewhere over his recent essay in which he says that the low proportion of women in computer science is at this point largely a result of women's choices and is unlikely to change. University officials immediately disputed his claims.

Research shows the sexes aren’t so different. The solution to women’s lagged advancement is not to fix women or their managers but to fix the conditions that undermine women and reinforce gender stereotypes.

    The First International Day of LGBTQ+ People in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths July 5th, 2018

"It's hard to see yourself in a career where you don't see other people who are like you."

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

Sexual harassment is disturbingly prevalent in academia. But a course correction may involve tearing down the hierarchy that makes science run.

Women continue to form too small a proportion of this journal’s authors and referees.

More than 100 researchers describe their work and the struggles they face, including gender bias and achieving a positive work-life balance.

Ever since Google fired James Damore for "advancing harmful gender stereotypes in our workplace," those of us working in tech have been trying to figure out what we can and cannot say on the subject of diversity.

A checklist and recommendations for societies to contribute to global gender equality in science.

A new database of female historians joins a growing group of lists that aim to promote a more diverse group of experts. Such databases have previously been more common in the hard sciences.