"The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) is the nation's leading provider of statistical data on the U.S. science and engineering enterprise. Explore this website for data on research and development, the science and engineering workforce, the condition and progress of STEM education, and U.S. competitiveness in science, engineering, technology, and R&D." (website description) Provided by the National Science Foundation.

Our World in Data is a website that contains research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems. It contains over 3,000 charts for nearly 300 topics. This link is to the search results page for articles on topics about women (e.g. Working Women).

"We have complied this directory of statistical sources to serve as a resource for discussions of women in science and engineering. Although these data highlight the success women have had in increasing the number of degrees earned by women in science and engineering, it also shows how this success has yet to be completely translated into the S&E workforce. As with all data, it is important to look for true trends. For example, when all the S&E disciplines are aggregated, it is easy to overlook both the advances in education attainment women have made in the life sciences, as well as the continuing challenges women face in some of the physical sciences and engineering fields. To avoid this, we have tried to include data analyzed by field of study whenever possible." (website description) Provided by: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine (CWSEM).

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"High quality data collection, and making that data available, is essential to making chemistry more accessible and inclusive for all. In our first RSC diversity data report we have collected data from across the breadth of our organisational activity – including membership, education, publishing, grants and much more." (publisher's description)

"Talented women, interested in an academic career, are leaving the sector before reaching their full potential. Many excellent female scientists who stay in academia are not progressing to senior grades in the same proportion as their male peers. Through a major survey, interviews and focus groups, we have gathered data from across the community – giving us new insights into the barriers facing women in the chemical sciences." (publisher's description)

"The launch of our ‘Diversity landscape of the chemical sciences’ report celebrated progress, identified areas for improvement and captured ongoing challenges in an engaging and lively discussion. The report draws together some of the available data and evidence about the current state of diversity in the UK chemical sciences, identifying gaps and questions that still need to be answered, and setting out commitments for our future focus as an organisation. While it points to some areas of progress, it also shows up how far we have yet to go." (publisher's description)

"Many LGBT+ people do not find the physical sciences to be a comfortable working environment – and have thought about leaving. Despite progress, many LGBT+ physical scientists have experienced or observed exclusionary behaviour in the workplace. In partnership with the Institute of Physics and the Royal Astronomical Society, we have conducted a comprehensive survey to gather data from across the community – giving us new insights into the current workplace environment for LGBT+ physical scientists." (publisher's description)

"The Royal Society of Chemistry has brought together 37 publishing organisations to set a new standard to ensure a more inclusive and diverse culture within scholarly publishing. As a group, we acknowledge that biases exist in scholarly publishing and we commit to scrutinising our own processes to minimise these. We will pool our resources, expertise and insight to accelerate research culture change."

RSC's resources to promote access and inclusion in the chemical sciences.