Country snapshots, policy briefs, conference recaps, and data analysis on women in STEM — from NSF and UNESCO datasets to Grace Hopper and GASAT.
A guide to women-in-STEM programs, scholarships, and university initiatives in Canada — from Waterloo's cooperative education model and Toronto's research depth to McGill's bilingual STEM environment, plus the Canadian funding landscape for women researchers.
A guide to women-in-STEM programs, scholarships, and initiatives at UK universities — from Imperial College London's Women in Science Engineering and Technology initiatives to Cambridge's STEM women's networks, funding opportunities, and the UK's broader policy landscape.
A practical guide to writing competitive women-in-STEM scholarship applications — how to structure the personal statement, what reviewers look for in Broader Impacts sections, how to write about mentorship and community without sounding formulaic.
The ten most significant scholarships for women in STEM with spring application deadlines — from the SWE scholarships to the Hertz Foundation and Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship — with amounts, eligibility, and strategy notes.
An editorial analysis of UNESCO's 2024 'Women in Science' report — examining regional differences in researcher gender balance across Sub-Saharan Africa, South and West Asia, and Latin America, and the fields where women are over- and under-represented globally.
An editorial analysis of AAUW's 'The STEM Gap' report — the earnings and attainment data from the 2022 edition, drawing on 2021 American Community Survey data. Focuses on the disaggregated story: pay gaps vary enormously by STEM subfield.
A data-driven synthesis of the most important gender-gap metrics in STEM as of early 2022, drawing on UNESCO's Women in Science factsheet, OECD Education at a Glance 2021, and NSF's 2021 Survey of Earned Doctorates.
A retrospective analysis of the Schlumberger Foundation Faculty for the Future fellowship programme — established 2004 — which by 2021 had supported over 700 women from developing nations pursuing PhD or postdoctoral research in STEM.
UK country snapshot circa 2020 — examining WISE workforce data, the Athena SWAN programme's impact on university culture, and the early Brexit-related uncertainty about EU research funding and mobility for women researchers.
An evidence-based early analysis of what prior research on 'career shock' events predicts about differential impacts on women researchers — drawing on 2008–2009 financial crisis data and the double-burden literature.
McKinsey's 2018 'Women in the Workplace' report covered the tech sector in detail, but its methodology skews toward corporate settings. This editorial analysis critiques the data through a research-science lens, examining what the report misses for women in academia and government research institutions.
A country snapshot of Brazil's women-in-STEM landscape circa 2019 — examining CNPq gender data, CAPES postgraduate enrollment, the regional split between Southeastern universities and the North/Northeast, and the specific under-representation in engineering fields.
The 2018 Grace Hopper Celebration drew 22,000 attendees in Houston. This recap examines the conference's evolution from academic gathering to corporate-sponsored event, and the internal debate about whether scale was diluting the engineering-research focus.
A country snapshot of India's women-in-STEM situation circa 2017, examining enrollment data, the IIT gender gap, DST WISE programme, and the regional variation between states.
The L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science fellowship programme reached its 18th cycle in 2016. This retrospective examines the programme's five-region fellowship structure, awardee selection, and what research shows about whether fellowship programmes at this scale affect pipeline outcomes.
A recap of the 14th GASAT conference (2016) and its examination of mid-career attrition — why women with PhD-level STEM credentials were leaving research positions in greater numbers than men at equivalent career stages.
In 2015, Nairobi was establishing itself as a continental tech hub. This analysis examines women's participation in Kenya's tech sector using ITU and government data, covering iHub, the early Andela programme, and whether 'Silicon Savannah' growth was translating into engineering roles for women.
An editorial analysis of the NCWIT 2015 Scorecard on women in computing — what improved, what didn't, and what the Anita Borg Institute's Grace Hopper context adds to the picture.
Examining the September 2014 HeForShe launch: what the evidence says about male-ally interventions in academic settings, how they complement structural reform, and why gender equity in STEM research requires more than solidarity signalling.
A country snapshot of South Africa's women-in-STEM landscape circa 2013, covering the National Research Foundation's gender initiatives, the Department of Science and Technology pipeline, and the specific challenges facing Black women scientists in the post-apartheid university system.
An evidence-based examination of women's progression from STEM undergraduate study to research career — drawing on UNESCO and NSF datasets, and interrogating the 'leaky pipeline' metaphor that had come under academic critique.
A recap of the 12th GASAT conference (2010), examining the turn toward sustainability science in the women-in-STEM policy agenda and how researchers from developing nations were advocating for equitable access to climate-science funding.
A survey of women's access to information and communication technologies across Sub-Saharan Africa in 2009, examining Kenya, South Africa, and Nigeria as comparative cases and drawing on ITU and World Bank data.
A recap of the 11th GASAT conference (Mauritius, 2007) examining how the Gender and Science and Technology association's policy focus shifted from participation metrics toward institutional reform, and what that meant for women researchers in developing nations.