Institutional Report Cards for Gender Equality: Lessons Learned from Benchmarking Efforts for Women in STEM (Cell Stem Cell)

Evidence has clearly established that women are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines despite decades of interventions aimed at achieving gender parity (National Science Foundation, 2017). The dearth of women in STEM is a complex cultural phenomenon influenced by cognitive, motivational, and sociological factors (Wang and Degol, 2017). As such, efforts to address gender imbalance in STEM must be multi-faceted: that is, aimed at reducing barriers and supporting women throughout their educational and academic careers using a variety of policy-based and practical interventions.