Gaining a PhD is a tough act for most students, so how do those with new babies cope while having the additional demands of parenthood?

Book of the week: With people vulnerable to bias, lack of diversity might be better tackled at organisational level, Victoria Bateman says.

The share of women in management or governor roles has steadily increased over the past two years, analysis shows.

Fewer than half of academies have policies in place to boost gender equality in membership.

The Swedish Secretariat for Gender Research is participating in a new advocacy platform intended to promote among for example gender perspectives in the EU research programme Horizon 2020.

Male students assumed their male classmates knew more about course material than female students — even if the young women earned better grades.

Women Also Know Stuff. Does that sound obvious? It’s not, alas. We’re a group of political scientists who started that website when, as we consumed media reports on politics, we noted a gaping absence of … well, women.

A groundbreaking study identifies significant disparities in life chances among UK students.

How does explicit and implicit bias affect gender balance in academia?

A paper argues that China’s one-child policy helped women to break into higher education. With the demise of the policy, could female progress go into reverse?

University of Reading research finds link between undergraduate satisfaction and ethnicity of lecturers.

Nearly everyone agrees that science has a gender problem. But the size of the gap depends on the area of science.