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Phys.org
Half of all women scientists worldwide have been the victim of workplace sexual harassment at some point during their career, according to a survey published recently. In the survey, which included more than 5,000 researchers across 117 countries, 49 percent of women scientists reported that they had "personally experienced at least one situation" of harassment.
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Nature
Universities and other employers in the US science sector must adopt practices that foster a safe and inclusive community, finds a report from the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, which outlines how such institutions can do so. The report calls for systemic change across multiple levels to account for the lengthy history of discrimination against people of color and members of marginalized communities in the United States.
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.WOMEN in SCIENCE
The Guardian
Women should never be afraid to ask questions, says Nicola Fox, NASA's new science chief and only the second woman to hold this position in the agency’s history. In her view, being curious and having a ton of questions are the hallmarks of a successful scientist — even if asking them can feel intimidating.
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CBS News
Women account for only a quarter of U.S. graduates who earn bachelor's degrees in physics, according to the American Physical Society, a Maryland-based nonprofit organization. But Dr. Tatiana Erukhimova, a physics professor at Texas A&M University, is looking to change that with the help of social media. Videos of her experiments have ignited people's curiosity on TikTok, drawing tens of millions of views over the last two years.
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Nature Ecology & Evolution
Peer review is central to the scientific process and scientists’ career advancement, but bias at various stages of the review process disadvantages some authors. Here we use peer review data from 312,740 biological sciences manuscripts across 31 studies to (1) examine evidence for differential peer review outcomes based on author demographics, (2) evaluate the efficacy of solutions to reduce bias and (3) describe the current landscape of peer review policies for 541 ecology and evolution journals.
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Nature
My career in conservation spans more than 20 countries, and workplaces ranging from universities, governments and consultancies to community-based and global non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Currently, I work as the Asia-Pacific director of gender and equity at The Nature Conservancy, one of the largest global conservation NGOs: it has more than 4,000 staff members and is active in more than 80 countries. I am responsible for ensuring that all our endeavours across the Asia-Pacific to address biodiversity loss and the climate crisis are inclusive and equitable.
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Lab Manager
A first-of-its-kind workplace climate survey of Earth and space scientists indicates that scientists of color, women, those with disabilities, and other groups historically excluded from geoscience careers are more likely to experience hostile and discriminatory behavior at work than their colleagues. The results have implications for retention of scientists in these fields that go beyond current efforts to improve diversity through recruitment activities.
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Information Week
Women continue to face a variety of obstacles pursuing a career in IT or STEM, but online learning options make it possible for women to receive the necessary training and education without encountering many social obstacles that accompany in-person education. Online learning platforms and the shift to distance learning have also allowed for more flexible scheduling and a new approach to instruction takes hold.
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Fast Company
Initiatives to strengthen diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are ubiquitous. According to Gallup, most companies (85%) have anti-bias training, nearly three-quarters (73%) have focused DEI training for managers, and more than half (52%) have mentoring and sponsorship programs. Yet, despite the time, resources, and attention devoted to DEI, very few organizations have made meaningful progress toward increasing the proportion of women in their senior leadership ranks, much less building truly inclusive workplace cultures.
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USA Today
Women don’t get the leadership positions or the top pay even in industries they dominate. And the higher they climb, the worse the wage disparities become, according to a watchdog report to Congress published recently.
The report, which found little progress on equity for women at work, was published on Equal Pay Day, which symbolizes how many more days women have to work to earn as much as men did the previous year
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.WOMEN and SPACE
Axios
NASA and Axiom Space unveiled the first prototype of a "next generation" spacesuit for humanity's return to the moon in 2025 during an event in Houston, Texas. The suits will be key to NASA's plans to send people to the Moon and the space agency has pledged to send the first woman and first person of color to the Moon on the Artemis missions.
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Space.com
Nicole Mann was always easy to find in space, thanks to Velcro technology.
The commander of SpaceX Crew-5 had a "hair situation" on the orbiting complex, she shared during a livestreamed press conference. Her crewmates could trail Mann via long hair strands accidentally stuck on International Space Station Velcro to where she was working on science in the orbital lab.
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.CAREER DEVELOPMENT
Labiotech
The life sciences industry might seem like an attractive sector for women to start their career find a job. But just how should women get started in the sector? We asked six top professionals in the field for their advice.
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Gallup
With many organizations making equity a key priority in their environmental, social and governance programs, women are watching to see if it emerges as more than just a buzzword. Working toward gender parity in leadership is the right thing to do for women — and it’s good for business.
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