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  • New Report Finds Women-Led Networking Benefits Individual Careers And Organizational Goals

    • Nov 11, 2024
    • Julie Korn

    This study reinforces how critical it is for anyone who is underrepresented in business — including women who hold just 21% of C-Suite roles and women of color who hold 13% of C-Suite roles — to have a support system that they can turn to as they progress in their career.

  • AI bias against disability

    Study finds ChatGPT shows bias against resumes for disabled applicants

    • Aug 26, 2024
    • Eric Lyerly

    A recent study conducted by University of Washington researchers discovered OpenAI frequently rates resumes CVs featuring disability-related achievements lower than resumes lacking such details.

  • 5 Clinical Research Recruitment Trends for 2024

    • Jul 29, 2024
    • Lucy Walters

    This article outlines 5 trends expected to continue in clinical research recruitment in 2024. Here's what you can do to ensure you’re ready to engage and attract top talent in a challenging job market.

  • Why So Many LGBTQ+ Scientists Leave Physics

    • Jun 3, 2024
    • Mike Silver-Tufts

    A new study finds that overall climate and exclusionary behaviors are the biggest factors for LGBT+ scientists leaving physics.

  • Alarm sounded over declining US radiation professional workforce

    • May 6, 2024
    • David Kramer

    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.

  • Disabled PhD holders in STEM get paid less

    • Apr 15, 2024
    • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

    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.

  • In search of a job—But which one? How unemployed people revise their occupational expectations

    • Apr 1, 2024
    • Didier Demazière

    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

  • Diversity across different sectors

    Implementing a diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility strategy: Lessons learned at five scholarly communications organizations

    • Nov 6, 2023
    • Ashley Wells Ajinkya, Kimberly Gladfelter Graham, Alice Meadows, Bahar Mehmani, Rajendrani Mukhopadhyay, Maria Stanton

    This article focuses on five very different information organizations represented in NISO's DEIA Committee, which are working on improving DEIA, in order to make recommendations for other organizations in this space, based on our shared experiences.

  • Ecologists

    Cultivating inclusive instructional and research environments in ecology and evolutionary science

    • Jul 21, 2023
    • Nathan C. Emery, Ellen K. Bledsoe, Andrew O. Hasley, Carrie Diaz Eaton

    This article is meant to contribute to the ongoing conversation and propose some guidance to ecologists and evolutionary scientists by describing and providing research-based practices to implement in everyday teaching and research settings

  • Medical Scientists

    Diversity, equity, and inclusion in research: Implications for nurse scientists

    • Jul 14, 2023
    • Mercy Ngosa Mumba, Mudasir Andrabi

    This article reviews why we should review DEI in research and provides 3 strategies Nurse Scientists can use to increase DEI in healthcare research.

  • Engineering team

    How professional engineers can contribute to attraction and retention of minority groups into the engineering profession through equity, diversity, inclusion, and decolonization efforts

    • May 19, 2023
    • Jessica Vandenberghe

    So how can professional engineers contribute as individuals, leaders, and within their organizations to improve the diversity amongst the engineering workforce? It is important to acknowledge that this is both an internal personal development journey, as well as an external journey as a professional.

  • LGBTQ+ inclusivity in fieldwork

    Inclusive LGBTQ+ fieldwork: Advancing spaces of belonging and safety

    • Apr 25, 2023
    • Martin Zebracki, Aydan Greatrick

    Increasing everyday levels of LGBTQ+ phobia and other forms of identity-based prejudice reveal the need for systematic attention across the versatile geographic discipline to the belonging and safety of LGBTQ+ field researchers.

  • female science student

    In OW-STEM, a Legacy Push for STEM Diversity

    • Feb 20, 2023
    • Gregory Zeller

    Opening STEM fields to traditionally "underrepresented" communities strengthens future workforces.

  • disabled scientist

    Moving Labs: A Checklist for Researchers with Disabilities

    • Jan 9, 2023
    • Adam Levy

    How to choose a workplace that is welcoming and safe, and where your career will thrive.

  • LGBTQ+ restoration science

    Inclusive Restoration: Ten Recommendations to Support LGBTQ+ Researchers in Restoration Science

    • Dec 12, 2022
    • Trevyn A. Toone, Sam J. Ahler, Julie E. Larson, Justin C. Luong, Francisco Martínez-Baena, Carlos A. Ordóñez-Parra, Mateus C. Silva, Isabelle B. C. van der Ouderaa

    Restoration science is uniquely positioned to create change: the same principles that shape ecosystem restoration also provide a blueprint for cultivating inclusion in science.

  • diverse leadership in STEM

    Why is Diverse Leadership in STEM Important?

    • Nov 28, 2022
    • Jacob Midwinter

    Five industry leaders discuss how their organizations have successfully created inclusive, diverse work environments.

  • LGBTQ+ company

    How to Tell if a Company is LGBTQ+ Friendly During a Job Search, According to an Expert

    • Nov 21, 2022
    • Ashton Jackson

    It’s important for LGBTQ+ professionals to have safe, inclusive work environments now more than ever.

  • women in technology

    The Role of Desktop Virtual Reality as an Accessible and Equitable Strategy to Improve Career Opportunities for Women in Technology

    • Nov 14, 2022
    • Nicholas Ogbonna Onele

    The conventional classroom does not seem to adequately address the gender disparity in technology education.

  • women in tech

    Helping Women Start Careers in Tech

    • Sep 14, 2022
    • Wiley Edge

    You want a career in tech, but you don't know where to start. Wiley Edge’s ‘Aspire’ program can help unlock your future.

  • diversity in tech

    The Impact of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion on Your Security Career

    • Aug 19, 2022
    • Jerry J. Brennan, Joanne R. Pollock

    A security leader’s decisions and actions when it comes to diversity, equity and inclusion practices can send a powerful message to the organization and the security industry, and impact reputation and personal brand.