Staff diversity: sex and gender
Brexit copyright issues may prevent researchers from consulting Spare Rib, which for two decades served as ‘the most popular voice of women’s liberation’ in the UK
Many presidents have pursued their careers just at one institution, raising questions about management skills, report finds
Self-perceived levels of impostor syndrome in women remain equally high among senior academics, study finds
Gradings influenced more by sex and ethnicity than teachers’ experience
Switching to a six-point scale in surveys eliminates perceived gap in teaching performance, study finds
Jordanian molecular biologist Rana Dajani talks to Matthew Reisz about her multiple roles as a conspicuously successful feminist, hijab-wearing scientist in the Middle East
Matthew Reisz describes talking to Jordanian molecular biologist Rana Dajani about body image, the West’s view of the East and breaking into science’s big league
Four institutions to pilot online module next year
Cambridge economist uses nudity to make the case against the UK leaving the European Union and for ‘my body, my choice’
Unsupportive senior staff and ‘unjust’ promotion practices are major problems reported by black female professors, says equity researcher
Dressing ‘sexy’ can negatively influence perceptions of competence, effort and performance, finds new study
Recruiter and ex-Sussex chair Simon Fanshawe aims to tackle biases around gender, ethnicity and university background
Study’s authors suggest women are better able to communicate the value of science to score public donations
Analysis of awards in biology and biomedical sciences between 1968 and 2017 suggests women increasingly likely to win prizes for ‘service’ over research
Portland State University says Peter Boghossian’s attack on academic explorations of race and gender failed to get ethics approval
Having more women on appointment committees has dramatically cut the number of female academics getting hired, according to analysis
Men’s magazine expresses contrition over slur against female students
Document circulated at annual conference of American Historical Association
However, latest data from EU suggests eastern European nations having more success in keeping gap narrow
University of Helsinki pilots aimed at eradicating unconscious bias in hiring decisions
Unfamiliarity with opposite sex may harm academic results when mixed-gender cooperation required, says study
Work published by women is more widely read by undergraduate and master’s students and by junior researchers than articles written by men
‘Proactive’ female recruitment drive closes staff gender gap, but fails to keep pace with enrolments
Fifteen institutions secure bronze accreditation as Athena SWAN heads south
Joan Wallach Scott warns of a ‘vision of the world in which men are superior to women’ in final protest against CEU expulsion from Hungary
What single change to university practice would have the most positive and far-reaching consequences? Eight academics and thinkers give us their views
Female-only professorships will speed progress to gender equality in the academy, but the pushback shows how far there still is to go, says Clare Kelly
Roadblock could stall progress in appointment of more female vice-chancellors, report warns
Frustration with ‘snail’s pace’ progress across continent leads Irish government to back financial sanctions against universities that miss targets
Major Ucea study finds ethnic minority staff suffer ‘significant pay penalties’ relative to white male staff with equivalent academic backgrounds
Long-time university leader is third top MSU official charged criminally with a failure to properly account for decade-long pattern of abuse by team doctor
Legal counsel describes how she was fired after pushing for investigation into misconduct at elite US institution
New regulations outlined by Trump officials would hand stronger rights in some areas to those facing sexual misconduct complaints on college campuses
Several months after college removed three professors, student lawsuit outlines years of grades and promotions tied to sexual demands
The UK’s first black female history professor on universities atoning for their pasts and believing in the goodness of others
Country is on the verge of achieving its now scrapped enrolment target, years before the deadline
If women in particular must watch what they say for fear of a social media mauling, public scholarly fora will be the poorer, warns Charlotte Galpin
Sir John Kingman hints that research councils could withhold funding in cases where universities do not address unfair treatment of staff
Royal Historical Society survey also exposes crisis of overwork in discipline
Scientific excellence must mean more than ‘how good someone is with a round-bottom flask’, conference hears
Academics express anxiety about ultimate reach of proposed policy tying gender to birth
Tokyo Medical University not alone in rigging entrance exams to exclude women
Women and Equalities Committee call for UK to follow US Title IX example, accusing government, regulators and institutions of ‘passing the buck’
New rules requiring a female presence on doctoral defence panels at the University of Glasgow will push more ‘unrewarded’ academic tasks on to women, critics claim
Fear and shame deter foreigners from reporting attacks, University of Canberra study finds
Donna Strickland describes how becoming only the third woman in history to win the physics prize turned her into a ‘rock star’ overnight
Tricksters say they wanted to expose overly politicised research, but scholars are concerned about the motivation behind the sting
Male skew in overseas students conceals female slant among domestic recruits
Study finds further evidence to suggest peer review process riddled with gender and racial bias
Cards including details of support services have been designed to fit in wallets and purses
Complaints process can drag on for several years and is nearly impossible to challenge, says 1752 Group report
Carlos Moedas tells MEPs institutions should introduce allocations for female academics ‘at some point’
Completion rates improve as number of women in a programme increases, US study finds
The Teesside pro vice-chancellor discusses promoting gender balance and being diagnosed with ovarian cancer
National Science Foundation demands that universities report findings of sexual harassment involving anyone working on the projects it has financed
Senior leaders must lead the charge in changing higher education’s structural disadvantages for black and minority ethnic staff and students, say Kalwant Bhopal and Sally Hunt
Efforts to prevent sexual harassment at universities advanced with new policies from top US provider of science funding and world’s biggest general science society
Conservative anger at initiatives to make campuses more inclusive to minority students is misplaced, say Kevin Singer, Laura Dahl, Matthew J. Mayhew and Alyssa N. Rockenbach
The UK’s new research mega-body has huge power to tackle long-standing inequalities, says its new diversity tsar Jennifer Rubin
Psychologist says that more women, minority groups and international students should be part of structures that tackle sexual misconduct
