Young science professors, both men and women, say their institutions don’t support them with enough mentoring and resources yet ask them to teach sometimes up to 40 hours a week.

Katrina Miranda, seeking class-action status, alleges that women professors are paid less and passed over for promotions and resources.

The journal undertook a self-assessment, finding men have more success than women with all-male review panels.

A judge throws out several of researcher Beverly Emerson’s claims, but the case proceeds.

Activists are protesting imbalanced conferences, editorial boards, and other professional activities by refusing to join.

The paper’s authors say bias may nevertheless be present in other steps of the granting process.

An investigation of 2.7 million patent submissions in the U.S. finds gender disparities throughout the application process.

As millions of men headed off to fight in the Great War, women researchers stayed behind to further science. Their struggle for equality rages on today.

The German research institution will invest more than $35 million in creating tenure-track positions for female scientists.