Inside Higher Ed presents an article on recent research into the persistent gender pay gap in higher education faculty. The story describes a study by Laura Meyers, a doctoral candidate at our own University of Washington. Some highlights from the article: The gender gap in faculty pay cannot be explained …
A recent study published by the journal Academic Medicine takes a long, hard look at NIH funding rates for male vs. female PI’s. While success and funding rates for men and women were not significantly different in most award programs,… both application and funding rates were generally higher for men …
The Association for Women in Science presents a series of charts and a summary of relevant data on the continuing and disturbing trend of electing a pathetic number of female scientists to the National Academy of Sciences. Particularly infuriating is their description of the NAS response in 2001 to complaints …
In a 5-part series, GenomeWeb presents a summary and highlights from Michael Ibba’s (Ohio State U.) career preparation talk at the American Society for Microbiology annual meeting. Ibba offers lots of useful advice based on his own experiences. Part 1: Reflections Part 2: Application Part 3: Interviews Part 4: Junior …
An interesting story at Nature proposes that the lack of female voices in the public media, particularly as representatives of science, is limiting which perspectives are visible and accessible to the public. The author suggests that female scientists first start by speaking up more at seminars and conferences. We have …
