Background Women and students of color are widely underrepresented in most STEM fields.
In order to investigate this underrepresentation, we interviewed 201 college seniors …

Recent research shows that women faculty members in academia continue to face systemic
barriers to opportunity and advancement and that these barriers are particularly strong in …

While women comprise over half of all undergraduate students in the United States, they
account for less than one-third of economics majors. From there, the proportion of women at …

There is limited information available regarding factors that contribute to the academic
advancement of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer (LGBQ) communities. In this project, we …

Gender Differences at Critical Transitions in the Careers of Science, Engineering, and
Mathematics Faculty presents new and surprising findings about career differences between …

There are many approaches to solving the problem of underrepresentation of some racial
and ethnic groups and women in scientific and technical disciplines. Here, the authors …

National trends reveal mixed results with regard to the gender gap in science achievement.
In some instances, such as coursework completed, females perform equal to male peers; …

Our previous research [Kost, Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 5, 010101 (2009) 10.1103/
PhysRevSTPER. 5.010101] examined gender differences in the first-semester, introductory …

The research reported in this article was supported in part by a grant from the National
Science Foundation (SES-0080638). For her research assistance on this project, we thank …

This innovative work critically studies the contemporary problems of one segment of science,
technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education. The lack of a diverse US-based pool …