Debate: It is high time that we responded to the real barriers stopping women from making it to the top of the academic world. We do not lack knowledge, but we lack the courage to do something about a culture that acts as a glass ceiling for women, say Vice-Dean Lise Wogensen Bach and head of the Department of Biomedicine, Thomas G. Jensen, in a comment to the Education and Science minister’s proposal for a task force on gender equality in research.