Study finds U.S. bias against women in science
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Women are being filtered out of   high-level science, math and engineering jobs in the United   States, and there is no good reason for it, according to a   National Academies report released on Monday.
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Top women executives do slightly better at U.S.-based healthcare and pharmaceutical companies than in other industries, but 35 percent of big drug companies do not have a single female director, according to a new survey.
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SEATTLE - For more than a decade, academics and technology executives have been frowning at the widening gender gap in computer science. Everyone has a theory, but no one has managed to attract many more women.
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Boys are less keen to go to university than their female counterparts, a survey suggests.
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For all the differences between the sexes, here's one that might stir up debate in the teacher's lounge: Boys learn more from men and girls learn more from women.
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NEW YORK, Feb 14  - Female scientists, engineers  and product developers still face barriers in climbing the  career ladder due to a lack of role models, mentors and access  to networks, according to a new study.
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Top women executives do slightly  better at U.S.-based healthcare and pharmaceutical companies  than in other industries, but 35 percent of big drug companies  do not have a single female director, according to a new  survey.
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The post from World Health Organization researchers on the practice they call female genital mutilation (FGM) has prompted a couple of critical responses from other researchers. One is a comment from Richard Shweder of the University of Chicago, who calls it "bureaucratic boilerplate" and says it's further evidence that "identity politics has triumphed over science [...].
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More women in the workplace does not mean falling fertility, a research economist claims.
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People in the U.S. know more about basic science today than they did two decades ago, good news that researchers say is tempered by an unsettling growth in the belief in pseudoscience such as astrology and visits by extraterrestrial aliens.
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Newly-qualified women doctors outnumber their male counterparts by almost three to two, a survey suggests.
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US researchers say they have developed a more accurate way of predicting heart disease risks in women.
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Women are better share tipsters than men, according to an analysis of 100,000 portfolios.
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A new report claims that the Bush administration has suppressed scientists' climate-change work.
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Women are underrepresented in public life and face financial penalties for starting a family, a new study has claimed.
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Women who work are healthier than women who don&#39;t have jobs, suggests a study presented this week at the American Sociological Association meeting in San Francisco.
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The suggestion by Harvard University's president that innate differences might explain why women lag in science and math could hurt efforts to recruit female scholars, a faculty committee said.