According to a recent study, a larger number of women in evaluation committees does not increase the quantity or quality of female candidates who qualify

Over recent decades and across the globe women have surpassed men in college enrollment and degree attainment yet women remain underrepresented in physical, engineering, mathematics, and computer sciences

FSU researchers Lara Perez-Felkner and Roxanne Hughes  are helping to lay a research-based foundation that might finally yield headway on this troubling issue

New study finds that women working in the financial industry are punished more severely than male coworkers after instances of misconduct

Book by plant biologist touches on issues many women in science face

Identifying challenges; finding and implementing solutions

“Our finding, that female residents in emergency medicine receive lower scores than males across all sub-competencies really implicates bias rather than a deficit in specific skills or knowledge,” researcher says

However, the researchers also caution that more work is needed to investigate how broadly these results apply

"In an era when there are still few women CEOs and we have yet to elect a woman president, it is important to understand how much motherhood affects the careers of women at the top and to consider how this can be changed," researcher says

New Tel Aviv University study confirms that nice women finish last