Equality | ScienceGeist

Metrics

Prestige and Inequality in the Ivory Tower

Metrics

Prestige and Inequality in the Ivory Tower

Inequalities in academic citation distribution are analyzed using Thomas Piketty's approach to analyzing economic inequality, with some fascinating results.

Read this article

ETH Gender Strategy 2017 - 2020

ETH Gender Strategy 2017 - 2020

Strategy for gender balance and equal opportunities for women and men at the ETH Domain.

Read this article

Understanding Unconscious Bias

Understanding Unconscious Bias

The key concepts and current academic research around unconscious bias.

Read this article

Five Unconscious Biases That Hold Back Female Researchers

Five Unconscious Biases That Hold Back Female Researchers

The Guardian investigates the low numbers of female professors.

Read this article

Female Grant Applicants Are Equally Successful When Peer Reviewers Assess the Science, but Not When They Assess the Scientist

biorxiv

Female Grant Applicants Are Equally Successful When Peer Reviewers Assess the Science, but Not When They Assess the Scientist

Gender gaps in grant success rates were significantly larger when there was an explicit review focus on the principal investigator.

Read this article

Evidence From Peer Review That Women Are Held to Higher Standards

Evidence From Peer Review That Women Are Held to Higher Standards

Tougher editorial standards and/or biased referee assignment may force women to write better, and may also reduce their productivity.

Read this article

How Care for Elders, Not Children, Denies Women a Paycheck

nytimes

How Care for Elders, Not Children, Denies Women a Paycheck

The focus on child care may conceal a bigger barrier to female participation in the labor force: tending to the growing ranks of aging family members.

Read this article

Women in Science: Addressing the Implications of the Gender Imbalance

huffingtonpost

Women in Science: Addressing the Implications of the Gender Imbalance

How do we create a social structure to foster empowerment?

huffingtonpost

Read this article

Publications

Study Finds Men Speak Twice as Often as Do Women at Colloquiums

insidehighered

Study Finds Men Speak Twice as Often as Do Women at Colloquiums

Study finds that men speak twice as often as women do at colloquiums, a difference that can't be explained away by rank, speaker pool composition or women's interest in giving talks.

insidehighered

Read this article

Women Are Invited to Give Fewer Talks Than Men at Top U.S. Universities

theatlantic

Women Are Invited to Give Fewer Talks Than Men at Top U.S. Universities

It’s not because they turn down talks more often, or because there aren’t enough women to invite.

Read this article

Girls Led to Science, Coding by Retired Educator Who Saw the Need for High-tech Options

Education

Girls Led to Science, Coding by Retired Educator Who Saw the Need for High-tech Options

At Camp Invention in Norwalk, Connecticut, elementary school girls string beads marked with 0s and 1s. They’re getting an introduction to the binary system that underlies computer coding.

Read this article

Why It's Crucial to Get More Women Into Science

nationalgeographic

Why It's Crucial to Get More Women Into Science

The number of women in scientific research continues to lag behind the number of men, even though women make up half the nation's workforce. The question is, What difference does it make?

nationalgeographic

Read this article

Teaching Gender Equality Can Help Tackle Sexual Harassment

theguardian

Teaching Gender Equality Can Help Tackle Sexual Harassment

Schools must encourage young people to question gender norms and behaviours, and ensure that sex education goes beyond biology

theguardian

Read this article

World's First AI-Citizen Sophia is Calling for Women's Rights

World's First AI-Citizen Sophia is Calling for Women's Rights

The Hanson Robotics headline maker is now pushing for women's rights in a country that granted her more rights than it grants most human females.

Read this article

Female Researchers Add Their Superiors as Authors

Female Researchers Add Their Superiors as Authors

Survey finds that women are more prone to recognizing honorary co-authors in papers, but less likely to pad citation lists.

Read this article

Why Do Women Drop Computer Science?

Education

Why Do Women Drop Computer Science?

In CompSci 201, women make up about 36 percent of the class, yet that number drops to about 27 percent in CompSci 230.

Read this article

Female Grant Applicants Are Equally Successful When Peer Reviewers Assess the Science, but Not When They Assess the Scientist

biorxiv

Funding

Female Grant Applicants Are Equally Successful When Peer Reviewers Assess the Science, but Not When They Assess the Scientist

Avoiding bias in grant review is necessary to ensure the best research is funded, regardless of who proposes it.

Read this article

"It Gnaws Away at Me": Female Scientists Report a Horrifying Culture of Sexual Assault

"It Gnaws Away at Me": Female Scientists Report a Horrifying Culture of Sexual Assault

Research labs and field sites are swarming with men who sexually harass and assault their colleagues. But when women come forward, the perpetrators aren’t punished—the victims are.

Read this article

First University in Region to Implement Gender Equality Plan

First University in Region to Implement Gender Equality Plan

International University of Sarajevo will become the first University in the region to implement a Gender Equality Plan, which will be funded by the EU through Horizon2020 program.

Read this article

Sowing the Seeds of Diversity in Engineering

scientificamerican

Women in Science

Sowing the Seeds of Diversity in Engineering

Only 14 percent of all engineers in the U.S. today are women, and the gender imbalance continues, or even worsens, when women enter the workforce.

Read this article

Male Researchers Given 8 Prestigious Grants, Women Get None

Funding

Male Researchers Given 8 Prestigious Grants, Women Get None

"We've been very concerned for a long time about the difference in success rates for men and women applying to our various schemes," said Professor Anne Kelso, CEO of the NHMRC.

Read this article

Science Research Jobs, Open Only to Women

Science Research Jobs, Open Only to Women

Max Planck is latest European institution to embrace hiring strategy that limits certain openings to female candidates.

Read this article

Harassment in Science Is Real

science

Misconduct

Harassment in Science Is Real

"…cultural change rests with individual scientists, teams, and professional societies."

Read this article

Rwanda's First All-Female University Is Training Up The Next Generation Of Women Leaders

Rwanda's First All-Female University Is Training Up The Next Generation Of Women Leaders

Rwanda is the global leader in terms of percentage of women in government, but the idea of women in positions of leadership is still seen as a taboo.

Read this article

Publications

The "Gender Factory"

The "Gender Factory"

How the Swiss education system (re)produces inequalities between women and men.

Read this article

Strong Evidence of Bias Against Research from Low Income Countries

bmj

Diversity

Strong Evidence of Bias Against Research from Low Income Countries

Acceptance rates of articles is higher when first authors come from English-speaking high income countries; and articles from high income countries have higher citation rates.

Read this article

We Interviewed 57 Female CEOs to Find Out How More Women Can Get to the Top

harvard

Survey

We Interviewed 57 Female CEOs to Find Out How More Women Can Get to the Top

A survey shows specific traits are critical to women’s success.

harvard

Read this article

STEM Programs Still Missing Mark with Women

STEM Programs Still Missing Mark with Women

The latest 2016 Canadian census information was released this week. Lots of statistics relating to labour, education, commutes to work and migration, among other things.

Read this article

STEM Degrees Rise, but Disparities Remain

STEM Degrees Rise, but Disparities Remain

Though women earn significantly more bachelor’s degrees than men, they are substantially less likely to obtain a degree in science, technology, engineering or math.