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If glass ceilings keep women from moving up, glass walls can keep them from moving to the side. This metaphor describes the harsh realities of coaching college and university sports teams in the United States. A little over 40% of women’s athletics teams are coached by women, while fewer than 1% of men’s teams are coached by women. Read more to learn how to improve these stats…
Affirmative action is often criticized as giving unfair advantages. Different people are evaluated by different criteria, which inevitably lowers the quality of the selected group, is the claim.
The logic behind these claims is not hard to understand, but it may be wrong. For more of the truth about affirmative action…
Girls are smarter than boys, but where are the women in math and sciences?
Role models make a difference. Structural impediments can be subtle, like asking for information about gender. These are just two of the many lessons that can be gleaned from this poster. I hope you’ll see even more. Read more to find out why…
We know that women in leadership makes organizations perform better. And we know that employees are more satisfied in companies with women in leadership teams. So what about implement a zero-tolerance policy for no gender diversity in the workplace. Read more…
Young women scientists leave academia in far greater numbers than men for three reasons. Sacrifice, little appeal and disproportionate impediments are conclusions made by PhD candidates, thus steering them away. What can we do about it? Read more to find out…
Groups that include both men and women are more intelligent, they achieve greater profitability and they make working environments better. Norway’s segregated workplaces are not optimal.
This is why we need to work to recruit more women to professions in which they are underrepresented — and more men where they are underrepresented. Workplaces that could be better for men and women are one of the topics we discuss today, on International Women’s Day. Read more why you need a woman…
Gender-enhanced science is research in which deliberate efforts are made to include differences between men and women in research projects, especially those leading to product development.
The leading cause of fetal death resulting from maternal trauma is from car crashes. Yet seatbelts are developed based on research on male bodies. Read more…
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