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Results for 'Gender issues in research'

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  Polar bear researchers struggle for air time

  Arctic fieldwork in Canada takes place in a difficult funding landscape.
  

  • Chris Woolston

  News 19 Nov 2021
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  Women’s ability to produce urgent research compromised by pandemic, data suggest

  COVID-19 crisis highlights the need for institutional support for women disproportionately burdened by extraordinary circumstances.

  • Matthew Ryan et al.

  Comment 9 Nov 2021
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  Promoting the value of unofficial academic mentorship

  Many hours are absorbed by ‘shadow advising’ students and postdocs, but the role is disproportionately shouldered by minority groups, and not properly recognized.
  

  • Kendall Powell

  News 19 Oct 2021
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  Three leading women in science share the highlight of their careers

  How they forged a new path to success.
  

  • Shipra Jain

  News 17 May 2021
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  Peer-reviewers twice as likely to accept research conducted on men than the same research on women

  How biases may play out against female experimental participants.
  

  • Dalmeet Singh Chawla

  News 11 May 2021
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  How altmetrics could help level the playing field for women in STEM

  Traditional measures of success favour male researchers. Altmetrics could offer an alternative to help democratize academic evaluation.
  

  • Bjarne Bartlett et al.

  Comment 25 Mar 2021
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  Rethinking research assessment: 7 sources of bias to watch out for at your institution

  Recognizing the signs of systemic bias is key to ensuring that hiring, promotion and tenure decisions are fair for everyone.
  

  • Gemma Conroy

  News 16 Mar 2021
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  Equity concerns persist over open-access publishing

  Senior male researchers at prestigious institutions are the most likely to pay to publish open access, study suggests.
  

  • Benjamin Plackett

  News 9 Mar 2021
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  Inclusion in the time of COVID: 14 ways to seize the moment for change

  Flux in the system is a chance to create new and better opportunities in academic STEMM careers for marginalized groups.
  

  • Carla Cebula et. al*

  Comment 9 Feb 2021
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  Following NASA's lead, researchers are targeting gender bias in instrument time

  The switch to double-blind peer reviews could help to ensure that female and early-career researchers get a fair shot at using in-demand equipment.

  • Clare Watson

  News 2 Feb 2021
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  How do you create a diversity program for science that works?

  Some tested strategies to engage and retain talented under-represented scientists.

  
  

  • Andy Tay

  News 20 Oct 2020
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  Nobel Prizes have a diversity problem even worse than the scientific fields they honor

  This is a problem much larger than simply bias on the part of the Nobel selection committees – it’s systemic.

  • Marc Zimmer

  Comment 8 Oct 2020
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  Women have disrupted research on bird song, and show how diversity can improve all fields of science

  For decades, scientists believed that only male birds sang. Then women entered the field and showed what their predecessors had missed.
  

  • Kevin Omland, Evangeline Rose & Karan Odom

  News 16 Sep 2020
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  Women and minority researchers have more original ideas, but white men are rewarded faster

  How many trailblazers have been sidelined?
  

  • Bec Crew

  News 16 Jul 2020
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  Coronavirus cutbacks could reverse hard-fought equity gains in STEM workforce

  Women’s jobs are “the first to go" in pandemic-related cuts.
  

  • Bec Crew

  News 25 May 2020
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  The decline of women's research production during the coronavirus pandemic

  Preprints analysis suggests a disproportionate impact on early career researchers.
  

  • Philippe Vincent-Lamarre et al.

  Comment 19 May 2020
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  Women rival men in scientific research publications and citations

  But short careers set them back.

  • Jon Brock

  News 17 Mar 2020
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  Just say "no" to manels

  There’s an app for that. 
  

  • Jeffrey Perkel

  Technology feature 7 Feb 2020
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  Why sexual harassment needs tougher punishment

  Grant and funding withdrawals should be considered, say researchers.
  

  • Gemma Conroy

  News 3 Dec 2019
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  Female researchers in Australia less likely to win major medical grants than males

  The results come despite a gender equity push at the National Health and Medical Research Council.

   

  • Bianca Nogrady

  News 30 Oct 2019