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Meet 12 Badass Scientists…Who Also Happen to be Women
What do you see when you picture a scientist? Is it a white man in a lab coat? This portrait will smash that stereotype to bits.
Equality in Science: A Mission Still Not Accomplished
In the 1960s three African-American women helped put astronauts into orbit. Hidden Figures tells their story, but women in science are still battling inequality.
10 Black Women in Academia That You Need To Know About
Every single day new advancements are being made in the world of education, but when you look at the media and the people who are making these advancements, you rarely will see a black woman being honored.
Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering
Statistical information about the participation of these three groups in science and engineering education and employment.
Looking Inward at Gender Issues
How Science is doing on the front of gender imbalance in authorship.
The Gender Bias in Peer Reviewing Reveals the Sexism in Academia
Even women researchers are more likely to choose men to review their academic papers.
Gender Differences in Recognition for Group Work
Evidence that women and men are judged differently when they co-author papers.
Brand New Year, Same Old Problems
Dame Athene Donald laments the lack of progress on gender issues
It’s Been 53 Years Since a Woman Won the Nobel Prize in Physics. What’s the Holdup?
Female Professors ‘Pay Price for Academic Citizenship’
Women in academia may be losing out salary-wise because they are more focused on tasks that may go unrewarded, a new study suggests
A Blueprint for Getting More Women into Information Technology
How to address high tech’s missing XX factor
Rosalind’s Ghost: Biology, Collaboration, and the Female
Women are still underrepresented in terms of authorships, including first and/or last authorships (whichever is more prestigious), coauthorships, and in the granting of scientific prizes.
Working Group on Gender Balance
Women and men are equally able to perform excellent frontier research. This is the view of ERC Scientific Council. Each process within the ERC - from creating awareness about the ERC to signing of grant agreements – is designed to give equal opportunities to men and women. To monitor gender balance in ERC calls, in 2008, the ERC set up a dedicated working group.
Why Are There So Few Women Mathematicians?
How a corrosive culture keeps women out of leadership positions on math journals
An Open Letter from and to Female Scientists
In the aftermath of the election results, a group of women in the sciences has banded together to speak out against anti-intellectualism, inequality, sexism and discrimination.
No Need to Apply, Dutch Science Academy Tells Men
In order to reduce its gender imbalance, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam will hold special election rounds, one in 2017 and one in 2018, for which only women can be nominated.
In Bold New Step, Dutch Science Academy Holds Women-Only Elections
No male nominees will be accepted in two special election rounds that seek to address gender imbalance.
Machine-learning Algorithm Quantifies Gender Bias in Astronomy
Calculation suggests papers with women first-authors have citation rates pushed down by 10%.
Differences in Collaboration Patterns across Discipline, Career Stage, and Gender
Differences in Collaboration Patterns across Discipline, Career Stage, and Gender
An empirical analysis of researchers’ publications reveals that females have fewer distinct coauthors yet have a lower chance of repeating previous coauthors than their male counterparts.
Quantitative Evaluation of Gender Bias in Astronomical Publications from Citation Counts
Quantitative Evaluation of Gender Bias in Astronomical Publications from Citation Counts
The increase of the fraction of papers authored by women is slowest in the most prestigious journals.
The Effect of Gender in the Publication Patterns in Mathematics
Significant differences between genders which may put women at a disadvantage when pursuing an academic career in mathematics.
Women Need to Be Seen and Heard at Conferences
A neuroscience initiative is boosting the number of female invited speakers at meetings. Other disciplines should do the same.