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Gender parity is not recovering, according to the Global Gender Gap Report 2022. It will take another 132 years to close the global gender gap. As crises are compounding, women's workforce outcomes are suffering and the risk of global gender parity backsliding further intensifies.

This is SfN's initiative to advance and empower women in the field through resources, networking events, professional opportunities, and awards. SfN also provides the field with education to increase awareness for implicit bias.

The goal of this report was to determine whether underrepresented faculty, women, and minorities (URM) - in the natural sciences, humanities and social sciences - are being treated equally on a number of dimensions, such as salary, workload, and leadership, as well as whether the climate they experience is the same as their colleagues and conducive to their success.

All entries to the Minerva Informatics Equality Award are shared as a source of ideas for all and listed under three categories: enrol and retain female students, transition into faculty, develop female faculty.

What we are therefore offering in this paper is (1) an overview of the benefits that a strategic approach to EDI can bring to universities (2) an introduction to the most recent and relevant research evidence on EDI issues in academia (3) an invitation for university leaders to fully equip themselves to recognise and address the particular challenges of EDI at research-intensive institutions (4) an overview of inspiring and practical examples of actions that can be taken.