Researchers analyzed data from the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting and found that, overall, female scientists are offered fewer opportunities than men to present their research

Recent study examines teaching and family commitments alongside public funding and the impact of research achieved through the quality of journal publications and volume of citations

A new meta-analysis reviewed five decades of "Draw a Scientist" tests to determine whether children's drawings have mirrored the increase of female participation in science

While it may seem that women are freely choosing to opt out of math-intensive STEM careers, these choices are constrained by implicit STEM-male stereotypes that may have been unconsciously ingrained since childhood, researcher says

Findings could help refine education efforts and policies geared toward girls and STEM

In their recent study, published in the Journal of Virology, the University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers examined 35 years worth of invited speaker rosters from four prominent virology meetings

“We found that if you give them access to same opportunities, then girls and boys have the same response—equal interest and confidence,” researcher says

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

Since 1998, the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science programme has highlighted the achievements of outstanding women scientists and supported promising younger women who are in the early stages of their scientific careers