Despite increased awareness of the lack of gender equity in academia and a growing
number of initiatives to address issues of diversity, change is slow, and inequalities remain …

The advent of large-scale datasets that trace the workings of science has encouraged
researchers from many different disciplinary backgrounds to turn scientific methods into …

Women remain underrepresented among faculty in nearly all academic fields. Using a
census of 245,270 tenure-track and tenured professors at United States–based PhD …

Two surveys of principal investigators conducted between April 2020 and January 2021
reveal that while the COVID-19 pandemic's initial impacts on scientists' research time seem …

Scientific editors shape the content of academic journals and set standards for their fields.
Yet, the degree to which the gender makeup of editors reflects that of scientists, and the rate …

While inequalities in science are common, most efforts to understand them treat scientists as
isolated individuals, ignoring the network effects of collaboration. Here, we develop models …

Mounting evidence suggests that science and engineering fields suffer from gender biases.
In this paper, we study the physics community, a discipline where women are still under …

Gender differences in research productivity have been well documented. One frequent
explanation of these differences is disproportionate child-related responsibilities for women …

A vociferous group of scientists is presently articulating the idea that academic freedom is
under attack from within academia. Examples of supposed suppression of free expression …

Despite becoming increasingly represented in academic departments, women scholars face
a critical lack of support as they navigate demands pertaining to pregnancy, motherhood …