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Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is one of fewer than a hundred Black American women ...
What could "nerd tunnel vision" possibly mean?
For a brief moment, the civil rights movement and the space race came together.
“We existed in a sea of sexism.”
Angela Saini’s new book makes a compelling argument about race, genetics, and why we keep making the same mistake.
Nature - Offering support to female colleagues can trigger a culture change that makes science and engineering more equitable for all.
In a new study, researchers uncovered female programmers who made important but unrecognized contributions to genetics.
As the sun set in Charlottesville, Virginia, two days after a white supremacist rammed his car into a group of demonstrators, killing Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old woman, I ducked out of an event hosted by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. I ran past a statue of Robert E. Lee that, the previous day, had […]
Writer Angela Saini deconstructs the cultural expectations that have meshed with scientific research to reinforce beliefs about male superiority and gender.
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
The University of Virginia is a leader for women in engineering among public schools. But many flagships lag far behind.
Noticing the skewed lineups at conferences, a Princeton neuroscientist and colleagues have started a website to compare the gender ratios at conferences to those in a particular field over all.
Harassment drove me out of physics 30 years ago and little has changed. Why is scientific sexism so intractable?
Research evaluation in the sciences has a gender problem and the indicators we use to understand academic impact are faulty.
Two-thirds of female biomedical researchers reported having experienced gender bias and a third had suffered sexual harassment, a new study finds.