Top Medical Journals Give Women Researchers Short Shrift
Women only got top billing in 37 percent of medical studies published in leading journals over the past two decades.
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Big Pay Differences Among New Male, Female Ph.D.s
Female Ph.D.s in science and engineering earn 31 percent less than their male cohorts one year after graduation, according to a new study in American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings. When controlling for the fact that women tend to earn degrees in fields that pay less than those in which more men earn degrees, the observed gap dropped to 11 percent. And the gap disappeared when controlling for whether the women were married and had children.
Gender representation on mathematical sciences journal editorial boards
A crowdfunding project to give insights into one possible aspect of gender bias in mathematics.
We need to do more for women in science
The scientific community must do a better job confronting the issues facing women in science, our author writes
While quantity of research is the name of the game, women are left on the sidelines
While quantity of research is the name of the game, women are left on the sidelines
As long men can score points for producing mountains of output, women will never get a fair shot at academic promotion
Merging Career And Motherhood, In Simultaneous Practice
Psychologist Tania Lombrozo and a colleague, both moms, built an academic conference keeping in mind parents who are trying to juggle the competing demands of caregiving and professional advancement.
Why do women choose or reject careers in academic medicine?
A narrative review of empirical evidence
Speak up about subtle sexism in science
Female scientists face everyday, often-unintentional microaggression in the workplace, and it won't stop unless we talk about it, says Tricia Serio.
The complex role of gender in faculty hiring
In computer science faculty hiring decisions, gender is indirectly considered through its correlation with measures like productivity, study finds
Creating a more inclusive academy
Although there has been a welcome increase in discussion about gender disparities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), broad participation of women from all backgrounds in academic STEM will not be achieved until institutions are transformed.
Excluded, intimidated and harassed: LGBT physicists face discrimination
Transgender people are the most affected.
As Women Take Over a Male-Dominated Field, the Pay Drops
Women’s median annual earnings stubbornly remain about 20 percent below men’s. Why is progress stalling?
Women in science: equality is impossible unless society shifts
Women have come a long way in science, but plenty of work remains. After all, gender bias in science doesn't happen in a vacuum.
Parent Carer Scientist
A collection of 150 personal stories from scientists who are combining a career in research with their roles as parents and carers, each in their own way.
After years of growth, female first authorship in top medical journals has stalled
Female first authorship has increased since 1994 but plateaued from 2009 to 2014
The scientist's dilemma: can you be a parent, a partner, a friend #AndAScientist?
The Royal Society’s new campaign highlights the importance of life outside the laboratory
She Figures: Women and Science 2015
Under-representation of women in science greater in Switzerland than in Europe.
More women publishing top medical papers
Female researchers now account for 37 per cent of first authors in medicine’s top journals, says US study
Women Also Know Stuff
Women Also Know Stuff is a website dedicated to promoting the work of women political scientists.
The Subtle Ways Gender Gaps Persist in Science
Women do more of the day-to-day labor of science while men are credited with more of the big-picture thinking.
Women under-represented in world’s science academies
Fewer than half of academies have policies in place to boost gender equality in membership.
Harvard Business School case study
When the members of the Harvard Business School class of 2013 gathered in May to celebrate the end of their studies, there was little visible evidence of the experiment they had undergone for the last two years.
Ein Leben lang Feministin
Beate Schücking ist eine von sehr wenigen Frauen an der Spitze einer deutschen Universität. Sie wurde bekannt, als die Uni Leipzig beschloss, Hochschullehrer als "Professorin" zu bezeichnen.
Someone is showing what it'd be like if male scientists were written about like women
"A devout husband and father, Darwin balanced his family duties with the study of the specimens he brought from his travels."
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