women, culture

Men have traditionally stolen the spotlight as scientific popularizers on TV, but women are making names for themselves in other formats.

Most researchers feel stimulated by their work but are dissatisfied with their compensation, according to this year’s results.

Every time Emily Temple-Wood receives an inappropriate email, she writes a Wikipedia entry about a woman scientist.

Women have come a long way, but roadblocks remain

The blogosphere voices widespread condemnation for a sexist comment made by a researcher attending this week’s annual Society for Neuroscience conference.

How to successfully surmount the challenges women face in becoming biotech industry leaders

In matriarchal societies where women receive equal education, there is no difference in spatial abilities between men and women.

Her doctoral advisor told her to amuse herself, and Fiona Watt has done just that—probing individual stem cells and determining the genes and molecules that direct them to differentiate or cause them to contribute to cancer.