Resources

European Commission, 2015: Guidelines to help science organizations develop and implement policies to promote women’s participation in science, including collecting data and monitoring gender equality, engaging leaderships, policy-making and institutionalisation, etworking and empowering women to take action, integrating gender in education and research, and communications.

GenPORT: Series of 25 policy briefs in: Recruitment & Promotion of Female Researchers; Implementing Gender Equality Plans in Research Performing Organisations (RPOs); Integrating the Gender Dimension into Research Content for RPOs; Integrating the Gender Dimension into Research Content for Research Funding Organisations (RFOs); Gender Balance in Decision-Making; and Thematic Briefs.

UN Global Compact/UN Women: A set of principles to help the private sector focus on key elements integral to promoting gender equality in the workplace, marketplace and community.

European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE): Report identifies key factors in promoting gender equality within research organizations, discusses how the effectiveness of gender equality initiatives can be assessed, and identifies stakeholders' needs and priorities in relation to measures that could be made available for research institutions to support gender equality.

Tools for Change in STEM: A series of online workshops for to help universities retain women scientists, including workshops on best practices for family friendly policies and on individual strategies for women navigating workplaces that are shaped by implicit bias.

GARCIA Project, 2015: Working paper examines factors contributing to low numbers of women in STEM careers in seven European countries, with policy best practices and recommendations

UNESCO Institute for Statistics: Interactive data tool presents the latest available data on gender gaps in the research career pipeline for countries at all stages of development

Women in Global Science and Technology (WISAT), 2012-ongoing: Data analysis project that studies the representation of women in national knowledge economies, with studies currently completed in Argentina, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico, South Africa, South Korea, and the US.

Portia Ltd, 2013: Report explaining how gender can make research more meaningful and open up new markets for scientific knowledge

Network of African Science Academies (NASAC), 2015: Report from a workshop on mainstreaming gender in science education makes numerous recommendations on increasing the participation of girls in science and promoting gender empowerment in the African context

UNESCO, 2010 Background paper gives an overview of the state of women in science and technology (S&T) fields starting from primary education, and makes recommendations to close the gender gap.