We know about gender bias in student ratings of professors. A new study finds the same, troubling trend in evaluations of teaching assistants.

While gender disparities are not a new topic in STEM, times of acute stress such as the COVID-19 pandemic have the ability to magnify the impact of these issues. Normalizing conversations around work–life balance, including equitable distribution of teaching/service duties and challenges with caregiving roles, is an essential step for the scientific community to realize a vision of equity. As we face the challenge of helping our students, group members, and staff through this pandemic, we challenge universities to assign additional value to teaching and mentoring, work that has been disproportionately shouldered by women in the academy.

Katie D. Lewis provides recommendations for how to succeed along the tenure track in each key area of academe -- while also balancing the demands of motherhood.

Large-scale study backs up other research showing relative declines in women's research productivity during COVID-19.

China's shift to a tenure-like system is hurting women, survey finds.

Nobody who works in higher ed should have to apologize for missing a meeting because they had to care for, teach or otherwise attend to their kids' needs. The burden of explaining parenting challenges while working under COVID should not fall on staff and faculty. Instead, it should be assumed that everyone is doing the best they can in a difficult situation.

No longer can employee autonomy and control of one's time be the exclusive privilege of only tenure-track professors. Everyone who works in higher ed should have the independence and flexibility they need to meet all their work and family responsibilities.

The Million Girls Moonshot initiative is working to close the gender gap in STEM by engaging an additional 1 million female students over the next five years. Anne Moore, a career and technical education and STEM teacher in Virginia, suggests "one-on-one encouragement so they feel comfortable talking about their interests and pursuing STEM careers.

Addressing child care needs when children are learning remotely is impeding some women's efforts toward publication and promotion in higher education, some women in academia say. In addition, some universities' decisions to give faculty members more time to meet tenure requirements have unexpectedly hurt women, some of whom say they would prefer child care subsidies, fewer teaching obligations or an adjusted selection criteria during the pandemic

The impact of COVID-19 on academic parents will linger long after the pandemic ends. These changes will, on balance, be positive.

The myth that underrepresented students leave science because they can't keep up reflects an unwillingness to deal with the truth that it's we who must change, writes Kerstin M. Perez.

You think you can't afford to transform your faculty? The University of Houston begs to differ.

How to protect your bright mind from the drain of everyday racism you may encounter in academic life. An article by Aisha S. Ahmad published in The Chronicle of Higher Education on July 6, 2020.

The pandemic has amplified pre-existing inequities among faculty members, creating distinct challenges for differently situated ones, write Ethel L. Mickey, Dessie Clark and Joya Misra.

This article in Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, by O'Meara and colleagues, speaks to department chairs, faculty leaders, deans and provosts seeking to make faculty workload more transparent and equitable.

Women's journal submission rates fell as their caring responsibilities jumped due to COVID-19. Without meaningful interventions, the trend is likely to continue.

Texas A&M University’s ACES Fellows Program is a two-year (24 month) fellowship for early career PhDs. Applicants should have earned their PhD between January 1, 2017 and July 1, 2021. Fellows begin their appointment fall 2021.

According to data from COACHE's Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey, 53 percent of faculty members are parents. About 16 percent are parents to an infant, toddler or pre-school child. One-third are parents to a school-aged child. Sixteen percent have a college-aged child and 12 percent are caregivers for a dependent adult.

Despite that, Kiernan Mathews, director of COACHE said, institutional responses are few and far between. 

Despite decades of positive messaging to encourage women and girls to pursue education tracks and careers in STEM, women continue to fall far below their male counterparts in these fields. A new study at Carnegie Mellon University examined 25 languages to explore the gender stereotypes in language that undermine efforts to support equality across STEM career paths. The results are available in the August 3^rd issue of Nature Human Behavior.

Welcome to the fall of 2020, a semester that will test the endurance, flexibility, and finances of parents everywhere. Both K-12 and college schedules are expected to keep shifting to reflect the changing risks posed by Covid-19. Children who start out in classrooms may end up studying from home for longer than their exhausted parents had counted on. That could cause a child-care dilemma for parents whose own schedules and workplaces are in flux.

"Across the country, early childhood care and education programs have been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Most closed in March, and though some are reopening as they are allowed by states, it’s expected that many will never reopen. These programs were financially precarious before the pandemic, and after months of closures and now with new regulations around cleaning and social distancing, it’s tough to make the numbers add up."