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Stop funding research that ignores sex and gender, says expert

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13 March

Research funders urged to follow NSF lead on harassment

National Science Foundation requires universities to inform them if staff members receiving grant funding face sexual harassment allegations

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Bring in observers to avoid gender bias, universities told

‘Trained observers’ can help selection committees stamp out implicit bias against women, Europe’s biggest highest education institutions say

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Don’t be distracted from equality challenges, universities told

Need to meet demands of technological advances should not overshadow long-standing problems of gender and race, conference told

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