Special issue of Nature takes a hard look at the gender gap
Nature is a weekly international journal publishing the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology - in this special issue, Nature is focusing on the gender gap
Nature takes a hard look at the gender gap and at what is being done to close it. A survey of the data (see page 22) reveals where progress has been made and where inequalities still lie, from salary to tenure. A News Feature (see page 25) reveals a particular dearth of women in some commercial spheres, such as on the scientific advisory boards of biotechnology firms, and an article by historian Patricia Fara (see page 43) traces the wearying stereotypes perpetuated by the biographers of women scientists.
Read more at: http://www.nature.com/news/women-in-science-women-s-work-1.12547
