Gender and Science Resources

Curated resources for researchers, practitioners, students, and mentors working on gender and science - the reports, toolkits, networks, and training programs worth knowing.

Toolkits and how-to guides

• UNESCO SAGA Toolkit - methodology for collecting sex-disaggregated STEM data
• Gendered Innovations (Stanford) - methodology for integrating sex and gender analysis into specific research projects
• European Commission Gender Equality Plan (GEP) Toolkit - for higher-education institutions implementing GEPs under Horizon Europe
• NSF ADVANCE Resources - institutional-transformation toolkits from two decades of ADVANCE-funded work
• EIGE Gender Mainstreaming in Academia Toolkit

Major reports worth knowing

• UNESCO Science Report (latest editions) - gender chapter is one of the most-cited cross-country syntheses
• European Commission She Figures - the EU's flagship report, published roughly every three years
• NSF Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering - biennial US report
• OECD Education at a Glance (annual)
• Inter-American Development Bank reports on women in STEM in Latin America

Professional networks

See our full networks directory for an annotated list. Quick links: AnitaB.org, SWE, IEEE WIE, ACM-W, AWIS, OWSD, AWM, European Women in Mathematics, GenderInSITE.

Training and capacity-building

• OWSD early-career researcher training programs
• L'Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science (national and international)
• Falling Walls Female Science Talents
• UNESCO Chairs network (various universities with gender-and-STEM chairs)