The promise of enhanced quality, the demands of funding organizations, and new requirements from journals are bringing much more attention to sex and gender perspectives in science.
You’ve heard of the glass ceiling, and if you read this piece, you’ll find out about the glass wall that sometimes stops even lateral moves — for women.
It’s somewhere between outright discrimination and bullying. “Don’t be so touchy!” They’re microaggressions and they matter.
Stories are important, but research is the path to knowledge. Sometimes we can actually watch a story get dressed up as research. I recently uncovered an example while trying to find the facts behind a claim about self-confidence differences between men and women.
There are few real-world examples of using quotas to improve gender balance. Here’s one from the Netherlands, and it’s making a difference.
A careful laboratory study simulates a hiring process and shows that jobs requiring math skills are harder for women to get — even when they actually are more talented!
A quirky little study tries to show that women professors do less for junior women than their male colleagues do. Fortunately, it doesn’t hold up.
Math skills, the ability to mentally manipulate objects, and self-esteem. Where are men better than women, or women better than men? Where are they the same?