Africa's focus on science, technology, and innovation (STI) has grown over the last decade,
with emerging examples of good practice. There are however numerous challenges to …

Building on scholarship addressing gender inequality in forestry, this paper investigates how
African scholars experience gendered struggles in doing forest governance research …

Replete with espoused discourses of equality, diversity and inclusion within public bodies, is
the UK, wherein lauded initiatives reward its universities' commitments to increasing the …

Empirical knowledge of the mobility of African scientists, and women scientists in particular,
holds an important key to achieving future success in the science systems of the continent. In …

A large body of literature on gender differences in scientific publication output has clearly
established that women scientists publish less that men do. Yet, no single explanation or …

Abstract Background Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) suffers from a dearth of concrete information
on the causes of women's under-representation in scientific research workforce particularly …

Bioinformatics training programs have been developed independently around the world
based on the perceived needs of the local and global academic communities. The field of …

Across the world, women make most of the health workforce, but remain underrepresented
in academia. This is even worst in Sub-Saharan Africa where women are the least …

Few women occupy a professorial rank in academia and senior management positions
globally. The issues relating to women in academia find a locus in the United Nations …

This study focuses on the factors that contribute to the low production of knowledge by
women compared to men in terms of the number of research outputs and recommends ways …