Take a break from the bench to puzzle and peruse.

As we await the announcement of the 2019 Nobel Prize winners, it’s time to question why female scientists still lag behind their male colleagues.

A study finds women continue to be underrepresented among science, engineering, and math professors, despite making up more than half the student population in these fields.

Overall, men received more money on average, but R01s were an exception.

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

Men received both more and larger grants than women did, ending up with three times as much funding on average.

An analysis of abstracts from American Geophysical Union meetings reveals that female scientists get fewer speaking opportunities than men.

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.