A new database is fighting the poor visibility of women in STEM by offering female professionals as speakers, panelists, experts, course leaders and advocates for diversity and equity.

African universities have been urged to foster gender equality, parity and mentoring of girls and early career women scientists in STEM, in order to facilitate economic transformation and other developmental challenges affecting the East African region.

A new article shows that women more often apply gender perspectives in their research. A diverse research group leads to better and more accurate knowledge about the world, according to Mathias Wullum Nielsen.

Early-career researchers living and working in Bangladesh, Cameroon, Ecuador, Guyana, and Indonesia have been recognized for their work in mathematics, physics and chemistry.

Early-career researchers living and working in Bangladesh, Cameroon, Ecuador, Guyana, and Indonesia have been recognized for their work in mathematics, physics and chemistry.

The pay imbalance is linked to a disproportionate number of men in the top jobs, especially to the performance bonuses offered to senior members of the investments team, all of whom were men.

Study finds that a given discipline's perceived gender bias plays the biggest role in whether women choose to major in it.

For decades, the number of women studying economics seemed to be increasing, easing the persistent scarcity of professional female economists in the United States. But that progress has stalled.

Why Google is celebrating the pioneer of medical and feminist history.

Three women scientists at the storied Salk Institute reveal decades of gender discrimination.

Being around people who are different from us makes us more creative, more diligent and harder-working

I was routinely humiliated by my head of department. Universities must tackle bullying with proper policy.

New Scientist, the world’s leading science and technology weekly magazine, is pleased to announce the appointment of Emily Wilson as Editor.

Researchers say universities with generous policies employ twice the number of women professors.

But female scientists suffer when their research proposals are judged primarily on the strength of their CVs.