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    How sexist is science? The findings are more complicated than is often reported

    Of the six areas of gender bias we examined, we found significant evidence of bias against women in two of them, teaching evaluations and salary. Also, although grants in the United States were gender-fair, elsewhere there was bias.

  • Woman leaving papers behind her. Taylor Callery for The Chronicle

    Even With Tenure, Women Are More Likely to Leave Higher Ed

    Across academe, women are more likely to leave their faculty positions than men, and attrition is highest for women who have tenure or work in fields outside of science, technology, engineering, and math, according to a new study.

  • Man and woman climbing two ladders; the woman's ladder has a broken rung

    It's not the "glass ceiling" holding women back at work, new analysis finds

    The struggle women face landing senior leadership roles in corporate America is commonly blamed on the "glass ceiling" — the metaphorical gender barrier that blocked their ascent to the highest levels of management. Yet new research indicates that the problems for women in the workforce begin far lower down the professional ladder.

  • An Insider/Outsider Journey: Life Reflections with Nobel Laureate Carolyn Bertozzi

    Join 2022 Nobel Laureate Carolyn Bertozzi for her thought-provoking speech about her journey from privileged beginnings as the daughter of a MIT professor to overcoming systemic roadblocks in chemistry education on her road to becoming a world renowned chemist, the surprising ways her life changed during the days of the announcement, and what she hopes can be accomplished to bring more people to chemistry after the award.

  • Barriers to Tenure and Promotion Persist for Psychology Faculty of Color

    A report by the American Psychological Association outlines the barriers many faculty members of color face and calls for increased transparency in the tenure and promotion process.

  • Systemic racism in science: reactions matter

    In this e-letter to Science, Agustin Fuentes proposes to those opposing anti-racism moves in science in the United States to "acknowledge the existing data and analyses, collect more data, run new analyses, and then see how to reframe questions and practices given more refined understandings of the dynamics of systems."

  • Research Finds No Gender Bias in Academic Science

    Reviewing decades of studies, researchers with “adversarial” perspectives conclude that tenure-track women and men in STEM receive comparable grant funding, journal acceptances and recommendation letters—and that women have an edge over men in hiring.

  • Karen Perez, executive director of the Child Development Center at Passaic County Community College, interacts with children at the college’s child-care center.

    The number of on-campus child-care centers has declined over the last 10 years, with the steepest declines taking place in the community-college sector.

    To combat these issues, the National Head Start Association and the Association of Community College Trustees announced a partnership that is meant to put more child-care facilities on campuses.

  • Women Do Higher Ed's Chores. That must end.

    From the mundanely sexist to the lawsuit-worthy, service work is inequitable.

  • Faculty Gender Imbalances Yield Biased Student Ratings

    Another study adds to the litany of concerns about student evaluations of faculty teaching. It says men and women are both at risk from bias in gender-lopsided departments, but women more so.

  • The intersectional privilege of white able-bodied heterosexual men in STEM

    White able-bodied heterosexual men (WAHM) in STEM experience more social inclusion, professional respect, and career opportunities, and have higher salaries and persistence intentions than STEM professionals in 31 other intersectional groups, says Cech in a study published in Science Advances

  • Summary of family support policies

    Family support policies could curb attrition in STEM programs, say O'Brien and Arzua in a November/December 2022 article in American Scientist.

  • Are Women Held to a Higher Standard in Publishing?

    According to Hengel’s new research, time spent in peer review has a gendered tinge. Hengel found that, in over 50 years of data from two top economics journals — Econometrica and The Review of Economic Studies — papers by women spend an average of three to six months longer in review than similar papers by men. That’s after controlling for citations, readability, author seniority, and other factors. 

  • How Gender Bias Worsened the Peer-Review Crisis

    Finding peer reviewers is harder than ever. So why are women still left out?

  • Toddlers seated and raising hands

    Supporting Student Parents Is an Equity Imperative

    Accessible and affordable childcare is a driver of college completion, Jhenai Chandler writes.

  • Why Faculty of Color Are Leaving Academe Too many find themselves disenfranchised, exhausted, and isolated.

    The stories of many faculty of color reflect the general trends of faculty dissatisfaction: concerns about work/life balance, inadequate compensation, and a flagging sense of purpose. But these scholars also struggle with pressures that remain mostly invisible to their white colleagues: isolation in rural communities, hostile work environments, and guilt about prioritizing self-care over the needs of their students.

  • An adult college student studies remotely while caring for her daughter. Damir Khabirov via Getty Images

    Over 1 in 20 students at a state flagship are caregivers, researchers found. They face these challenges.

    Colleges should identify which students are most likely to be caregivers and design policies to help minimize emotional and academic risks they face, according to new research published in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, a peer-reviewed academic journal.

  • Two children playing with abacus. iStock/Getty Images Plus

    The Campus Child Care Crisis

    Emporia State will close its campus child care center next year. Parents are pushing back, highlighting the nationwide shortage of affordable options in higher education and beyond.

  • Two scientists work side by side in lab. iStock

    Women scientists don’t get authorship they should, new study suggests

    Science is increasingly conducted by teams. But within those teams, credit isn’t always allocated equitably: Women are less likely to be authors than men in their research group at the same career stage, even accounting for the hours each individual worked on the project, according to a study published today in Nature. 

  • Tracking the Evolution (and Erosion) of Tenure

    AAUP finds tenured faculty lines declined dramatically since 2004, but many institutions have updated their tenure policies to account for diversity work and work-life balance.

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