Despite increased awareness of the lack of gender equity in academia and a growing
number of initiatives to address issues of diversity, change is slow, and inequalities remain …

We reviewed publicly available information from the top 50 journals worldwide in
psychology and neuroscience to infer the proportions of editors by gender and country of …

Across academia, men and women tend to publish at unequal rates. Existing explanations
include the potentially unequal impact of parenthood on scholarship, but a lack of …

Concerns about systemic racism at academic and research institutions have increased over
the past decade. Here, we investigate data from the National Science Foundation (NSF), a …

The history of the scientific enterprise demonstrates that it has supported gender, identity,
and racial inequity. Further, its institutions have allowed discrimination, harassment, and …

Disparities remain in the representation of marginalized students in STEM. Classroom‐
based experiential learning opportunities can increase student confidence and academic …

Discrimination against racial and ethnic minority groups exists in the academy, and the
associated biases impact hiring and promotion, publication rates, grant funding, and awards …

Can diversity make for better science? Although diversity has ethical and political value,
arguments for its epistemic value require a bridge between normative and mechanistic …

Through targeted recruitment and interventions to support their success during training, the
fraction of trainees (graduate students and postdoctoral fellows) in academic science from …

Background Peer reviewed research is paramount to the advancement of science. Ideally,
the peer review process is an unbiased, fair assessment of the scientific merit and credibility …