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The leaky pipeline metaphor partially explains historical gender differences in the U.S., but no longer describes current gender differences in the bachelor’s to Ph.D. transition in STEM.
Male professors are brilliant, awesome and knowledgeable. Women are bossy and annoying, and beautiful or ugly. These are a few of the results from a new interactive chart that was gaining notice on social media.
Race inequality remains prevalent throughout all areas of higher education, including staffing, admissions and employment, according to a report released by leading UK race equality think tank the Runnymede Trust.
Paper showing that how ability is viewed within a field plays a key role in how well women are represented.
Women shy away from fields in which talent, not hard work, is thought to be key, survey suggests.
It is unclear whether or how the career preferences of women and underrepresented minority scientists change in manners distinct from their better-represented peers.
Never thought of being gender biased when performing evaluations? Take the implicit association test.
Able women who set out to make academic careers in math-intensive fields of science have as good a chance of succeeding as men today, keeping in mind that the chances don’t appear great for anyone of either gender.
People working together can achieve more than they can alone; this is a fundamental principle upon which organizations are founded.
A recent report reveals that only 12% of third year female PhD students want a career in academia.
How women and men fare in doctoral studies around the world.
The sciences can be a sanctuary for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals, but biases may still discourage many from coming out.
Business sponsorship 'enables' gender-specific recruitment at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Instrumentenkasten mit Beispiele aus der Praxis für die Praxis zu den Forschungsorientierten Gleichstellungsstandards der DFG.
NIH will assess whether grant reviewers are biased against minority applicants.
Analysis suggests that male physicists and mathematicians author nearly 50% more papers than female colleagues.
Women continue to face serious obstacles when pursuing a scientific career in Switzerland, with the juggle of family life and research particularly difficult.
A palaeontologist, an astronomer, a chemist - into the pantheon of children's toys stride three new Lego characters. Not so surprising. Except the scientists are all female.
Young researchers, especially women, are more likely to be sexually harassed or assaulted when they are doing fieldwork than in the office.
The NIH is working on multiple fronts to get to the bottom of unexplained racial disparities in R01 grant funding and to maximize fairness in NIH peer review.
Little attention has been paid to the large, changing inequalities in the world of scientific research.
Instructors at 259 US institutions were, on average, more likely to respond to fake email requests for mentoring if the senders' names sounded white and male.
A lack of diversity in terms of gender, disability, ethnicity, socio-economic status and background across the scientific community represents a large loss of talent to the UK.
NIH's initiative to support and implement fairer competition for minority students is a welcome step to redress the exploitation of African Americans by science.
Research Councils UK analysis reveals gender difference in success rates
Without provision of information about candidates other than their appearance, men are twice more likely to be hired for a mathematical task than women. If ability is self-reported, women still are discriminated against, because employers do not fully account for men’s tendency to boast about performance.
Study of psychology departments finds that female full professors are less likely to co-author papers with lower ranking women
The good news: Many more women than ever before are completing Ph.D.'s in the sciences. Back in 2000, when I was appointed the first female dean of the graduate division at the University of California at Berkeley, I was delighted to learn that about half of the incoming doctoral students in the biological sciences-and more than 30 percent in heavily male fields like chemistry and engineering-were women.
The number of female students considering university courses in STEM subjects has seen a bigger increase over the last seven years than for male students, according to new research.
