More dependant responsibilities, less time in lab, fewer experimental results and fewer papers – the COVID-19 pandemic is making existing inequity between men and women in microbiology worse.

Unlike COVID-19, the 1918 'Spanish' flu pandemic was pivotal in advancing women's roles in the workplace and eventually the right to vote. What lessons can women today learn from the past?

Imposter syndrome (known also as imposterism or the imposter phenomenon), is a faulty belief system wherein one chronically doubts his or her abilities in spite of rivaling external evidence. If you, like many, suffer from crippling imposter syndrome, how can you cope?