The last Equal Rights Amendment campaign failed to pass by its 1982 deadline. Now the fight for the ERA is heating up again. Women still suffer injustice everyday and leaders such as Bettina Hager, the D.C. director of the ERA Coalition, are spearheading a rekindled fight for equal rights.

An IU study led by social psychologist Kathryn Boucher found that gender stereotypes are correlated with negative math performance for women, according to an IU press release. The study also found that men and women predicted negative stereotypes would actually cause women to perform better to overcome the stereotype obstacle. The full study will appear in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology's May issue, according to the press release.

Shortly after his election as the new president of the European Committee of the Regions, we met Markku Markkula to discuss not only his views and priorities for his two-and-a-half year term of office, but also his local and regional experience in his native Finland.

Women currently make up about 25% of the technical workforce and earn about 18% of computer science degrees. It wasn't always that way. In the mid 80's women took home 37% of computer science degrees. What is going on? How do we change it? And why does it matter? Find out why it is essential that more women pursue tech careers and more tech companies create inclusive environments where women can thrive.

Janet Bandows Koster, CEO of the Association for Women in Science, talks about her organization's push to help women in STEM industries get on equal ground with the guys - and why, even after 45 years, that's still so difficult.

Over the past several years, a range of other institutions, including public flagships, liberal-arts colleges, historically black institutions, and community colleges have hired their first female presidents. They include the University of Virginia, Middlebury College, Alabama State University, and Pueblo Community College. Despite the progress, including at some of the nation's most elite institutions, women remain significantly underrepresented among college presidencies - and the numbers have barely budged. Women make up about a quarter of college presidents nationwide, a share that has remained about the same for at least a decade.

Listen to women from across the Administration tell the stories of their personal heroes across the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).

ABI India's Managing Director, Geetha Kannan writes in The Hindu Business Line about the absolute need for tackling unconscious bias, if we really want to get anywhere in enhancing the careers of women. The theme for 2015 International Women's Day is ''Make It Happen''. It is a good trigger for us to stop and think if we really want to take effective action to improve the status of women and grow their careers. Our mindsets play a critical role in supporting or hindering the efforts. A major block is the presence of unconscious bias at the workplace. It exists on a personal and organizational level and is influenced by background, cultural environment and experiences. The foundations can be traced to childhood. While some perceptions are not wrong and can be explained as inherent characteristics of each gender, they cannot completely guide or cloud our interactions and decisions.

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Last week, MIT released a report that closely examines the state of diversity within the university. The report considers MIT's diversity not just in terms of students and faculty, but also looks at the Institute's non-faculty research staff who represent approximately 28% of the institution as a whole. Releasing the report was a brave move for the university. It provides a frank and realistic evaluation of where MIT stands in the heated debate concerning diversity and inclusion in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields.