A study suggests that, at least in US academia, men and women now receive roughly equivalent treatment in the workplace. The scientific community disagrees.

Four prominent academics call for an overhaul of the US biomedical research workforce.

Surprising trends reveal themselves in this year's Salary Survey statistics.

The Scientist opened up its annual Salary Survey to our international readers for the first time, revealing stark differences between average pay in the U.S., Europe, and the rest of the world.

How to make your lab less like a factory and more like a family

California, Texas, and New York are home to more than a quarter of all US scientists and engineers, according to an NSF report.

Institutional funding and research support is critical to academics during this time of continued budgetary belt-tightening across government agencies.
 

The NIH remains a Caucasian-dominated workforce. Why haven’t the agency’s efforts to diversify been successful?

Take a closer look at some of the statistics generated by The Scientist's Best Place to Work Industry 2013 survey.

Our final survey of the life-science industry workplace highlights the companies—small and large, domestic and international—that are making their researchers feel valued and at home.