Career Feature, Career Column, Career News and Career Brief in 2016

The pay gap between men and women in UK science is narrowing.

Women have fewer co-authors than men over the course of their careers.

Stereotypes about scientific fields shape what women choose to study.

United Kingdom has cut drug-development research jobs over past decade.

An online tool aims to help early career scientists find more and more-relevant advisors

Early career support programme aims to help women and under-represented minorities.

Of new US PhDs with definite plans, 42% are headed to postdocs.

US National Institutes of Health funding rates for younger researchers are similar to those for older ones.

Two studies examine how PhD graduates plan for and move on their career paths.

Women are underrepresented in memberships of academic science societies.

Academia is moving towards more part-time positions, and fewer tenured ones.

Elite scientists generally agree on what character traits make for excellent science.

Young researchers contemplate the use of preprint servers.

Virtual hub offers career-development tools and resources.

More than one-third of physics PhD graduates take permanent jobs, and that is a record high.

More men than women apply for, and in some cases receive, biomedical-research funds.