Resources

This annual review by UN Women and the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs examines the state of gender equality within the framework of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. At the current rate, we risk leaving more than 340 million women and girls in abject poverty by 2030, and an alarming 4 per cent could grapple with extreme food insecurity by that year.

According to a new large-scale survey, women are more likely than men to suggest that their work is not groundbreaking or novel enough to submit to high-impact journals like Nature, Science and PNAS, which typically have high rejection rates and include novelty as a criterion for acceptance.

This 2015 report focuses on the salaries of ladder faculty at Berkeley, with particular attention to equity by gender and ethnicity.  A joint Senate-Administration steering committee has overseen both the preparation of this report and the design of the underlying study. 

The ALBA Network, the European Journal of Neuroscience and its publisher Wiley, have created a ‘self-administered checklist’ to guide journals in thinking about how they can implement strategies to improve outcomes on inclusion and diversity throughout the publishing process.

A podcast empowering BAME women in life sciences and medical fields, featuring interviews with successful and inspirational ethnic women in STEM. Hosted by the Subramanian Laboratory at the University of Bath, UK.