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Alarm sounded over declining US radiation professional workforce
- May 6, 2024
As retirements surge, shortages threaten to slow advances in cancer therapy, diagnostics, and improved understanding of the physiological impacts of radiation. But the market for health physicists is strong. Thomas Johnson, a professor of health physics at Colorado State University, lists about 80 openings each month -- many of which he says remain unfilled for months.
Diversity In Leadership Increases Chances Of Success By 39%
- Apr 29, 2024
According to the latest “Diversity Matters Even More” report, there is a “39% increased likelihood of outperformance for those in the top quartile of ethnic and gender representation versus the bottom quartile.” Conversely, the risk of not having diversity on your leadership team is immense.
Diversity & Inclusion: 7 Ways to Change Your Culture
- Apr 22, 2024
Creating a truly diverse and inclusive workforce takes much more than locating and tapping into a diverse hiring pipeline. Here are seven practices that can help fine tune your DNI efforts.
Disabled PhD holders in STEM get paid less
- Apr 15, 2024
Today more than 27% of American adults have disabilities, and yet people with disabilities still face many barriers to health, equity, and inclusion. The Disability Health Research Center aims to shift the paradigm from ‘living with a disability’ to ‘thriving with a disability’ and uses data-driven approaches to drive change in many sectors, including in STEM.
Gender, vulnerabilities, and how the other becomes the otherer in academia
- Apr 8, 2024
This article draws on the work of Judith Butler, particularly the notion of vulnerability in/as resistance, to explore the gendered experiences of women in Australian academia.
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In search of a job—But which one? How unemployed people revise their occupational expectations
- Apr 1, 2024
Job search is a compulsory duty with which unemployed people must either comply, or risk being sanctioned. Activation policies have reinforced this obligation (Eichhorst et al., 2008). At the same time, employment job statuses have diversified, while conditions of employment have been weakened; the end result is growing job insecurity and precariousness, primarily affecting jobseekers
Challenges and Opportunities for Women in Clinical Research
- Mar 25, 2024
An examination of the challenges facing women in clinical research and how women can best position themselves to succeed.
Examining the Draw of Diversity: How Diversity Climate Perceptions Affect Job-Pursuit Intentions
- Mar 18, 2024
Organizations must target talented applicants, who will often be demographically diverse, to attract the most competent and competitive workforce possible. Despite the bottom-line implications of attracting the best and brightest, surprisingly little is known about how and why diversity recruitment strategies affect recruitment outcomes (e.g., job-pursuit intentions).
Male psychologists and female mathematicians: Gender beliefs and undergraduate degree choices
- Mar 11, 2024
This paper assessed a variety of gender beliefs and identities amongst men and women in Science. The results demonstrate how gender identity may account for differences in undergraduate representation. The authors discuss the implications of their findings for increasing uptake of gender stereotype career paths (e.g., women in STEM) with a particular focus on how femininity may be rejected in counter-stereotypical domains.
Diversity among research staff found to increase participation of underrepresented patients in clinical studies
- Mar 4, 2024
"Understanding ways to improve recruitment of racially and ethnically underrepresented patients in clinical research is critical," said Manju Subramanian, MD.
Myths About 'Talent' Disadvantage Women in Science
- Feb 26, 2024
Could it be that most men simply have character traits that are well-suited to the sciences? The faculty we spoke with say that when you’re on the hunt for talent, you’re looking for people like yourself. But are these ‘boyish behaviors’ the most important qualities to becoming a good scientist?
How Allies Can Fight Discrimination Against Black, Latino STEM Students
- Feb 20, 2024
Calling out discriminatory behavior is an effective way for white students to help combat racism against Black and Latino science, technology, engineering, and math students, researchers report.
To Retain Women, Workplaces Need to Fight Burnout
- Feb 12, 2024
Employers must act now to combat the burnout forcing women out of the workforce.
For Inclusive Hiring, Findings Back Ethical Leadership Style
- Feb 5, 2024
New research examines the impact of leadership style on prospective Black employees who apply for jobs in less-diverse companies.
Scientists May Misunderstand the Gender Gap in Physics
- Jan 29, 2024
A recent study suggests women are less likely to pursue a career in physics. Researchers warn that this individualist argument blunt initiatives promoting women's equality in STEM.
Recruitment of a diverse emergency medicine residency program: Creating and maintaining a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Jan 15, 2024
Addressing healthcare disparities is a key quality issue in medicine today, and one starting place for approaching healthcare disparities is improving diversity within the healthcare workforce.
All inside our heads? A critical discursive review of unconscious bias training in the sciences
- Jan 1, 2024
This article reviews publications relating to unconscious bias training (UBT) interventions across STEMM (Science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine) areas in Higher Education (HE) institutions
Plain language summaries: Enabling increased diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility in scholarly publishing
- Dec 18, 2023
Plain language summaries can diversify readership and authorship, address information inequity, include typically under-represented stakeholders and provide an accessible route into scholarly literature.
Researchers: Career metrics uphold racism, sexism in science
- Dec 4, 2023
"I'm over surviving in a system that is so clearly not made for me, or even more so, for some of my colleagues," says Sarah Davies. "In science, we're always talking about increasing diversity, but the coronavirus pandemic really exposed everything."
The (un)discovering of ecology by Alaska Native ecologists
- Nov 20, 2023
Here we discuss the factors that affect Native students and provide strategies to improve recruitment and retention of Native students in the sciences.
