Staff diversity: sex and gender
Misty Bentz is the inventor of ‘Phynd the Physicist’, a game designed to open dialogue among students about inclusion
Matthew Reisz reflects on the testimonies of gay academics about how the academy has changed and needs to change more
Durham, Edinburgh and Queen’s University Belfast pick up inaugural awards for arts, humanities and social science departments
Janet Beer says radical action is needed to increase the number of women working at higher levels in universities
Investing in the education of millions of young people can help defuse a security time bomb, argue Faisal Abbas and Abdur Rehman Cheema
Paper explores the emotional costs for women of working in ultra-competitive environments
Number of women in high performance computing and science in general is worryingly low, says scholar who leads group for female academics in her field
Gaining a PhD is a tough act for most students, so how do those with new babies cope while having the additional demands of parenthood?
Female students also 'quicker to assimilate than men' with others on course, says HKUST business school academic
Banners put up across Chinese university campuses have strange take on annual event
Jenny Pickerill reflects on how to overcome sexism and stereotypes in higher education
Institutions are criticised in UCU report for allowing 'shameful levels of pay inequality' to persist
McGill’s leading astrophysicist talks fundamental science research, academic gender imbalances and amateur dramatics as a parent
UK among the worst performers in analysis of 69 national academies
The share of women in management or governor roles has steadily increased over the past two years, analysis shows
No more than 75 per cent of a discipline’s students should be of the same gender, says funding council
Oxford pro vice-chancellor Sally Mapstone to take on role vacated by Louise Richardson
Jem Bloomfield doesn’t recognise the picture of a higher education system that panders to female students and glories in marginalising their male peers
Survey suggests 3 per cent of higher and further education workers have been physically assaulted because they are homosexual, bisexual or transsexual
Why are researchers preoccupied with 'lad culture' when the under-representation of men among students is the real problem, asks Joanna Williams
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press
Canadian university admits video aimed at promoting energy saving by showing a female teacher receiving suggestive compliment was sexist
Researchers cite high levels of independence and the need for social perceptiveness as factors
A paper argues that China’s one-child policy helped women to break into higher education. With the demise of the policy, could female progress go into reverse?
Two researchers have got to grips with the evolution of the penis
If more women are to benefit from the gender equality that society prizes, it is time for the world of work to change, says Victoria Bateman
The most popular higher education articles of the year, based on website traffic
Goldsmiths conference looks at issue of harassment on campus – and why it is often ignored or dismissed
I had assumed stories about campus political correctness might be overblown. But the experience of my friend is an example of how deeply it permeates universities
Official figures show gap fell 2.4 percentage points for full-time staff
Press release stating intent to mark event is withdrawn after receiving instant social media backlash
Brown University dean on gender mix in senior university management
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press
Vast majority find position in STEM-related careers, although fewer stay in research over the longer term
Women with partners who have full-time jobs find it more difficult to get over ‘glass fence’ and move abroad, study suggests
Women Inspire aims to show how the fight for the vote still has much to teach us today
Victoria Bateman looks at the gender mix within economics and details her own attempts to encourage more women into the discipline
Transition to ‘make-or-break’ stage for female academics is a significant challenge, study explains
Discipline may fund women fairly because of a better awareness of the ‘ingrained, institutionalized male culture of universities’
First female president of Universities UK jokes that ‘it’s only been 100 years’ before a woman filled the post
Intervention required to address the issue of under-representation, say Susanne Choi Yuk Ping and Sally Ka-wing Lo
Karen Shook speaks to the author of SlutWalk: Feminism, Activism and Media
Hefce study finds large differences in submission rates by ethnicity and gender
Warwick study highlights high dropout rate and queries social mobility benefits
We don’t need to ‘fix the women’, we need to fix the system, says Dame Athene Donald
French research finds that undergraduates give higher scores to male teachers
Body behind the Athena SWAN gender equality initiative names first institutions to receive award to promote racial diversity
Conference paper challenges argument that gender-balanced committees boost female candidates
Trinity College Dublin and the University of Limerick become the first organisations outside the UK to gain an Athena SWAN charter mark for gender equality
Matthew Reisz looks for the value in dull pictures of long-forgotten vice-chancellors
Head of Canterbury Christ Church, which has seen female representation almost triple on its board, says more needs to be done to seek out talent
NUS study highlights shortcomings in policies and training to tackle ‘lad culture’
Research shows female ITT leaders having to 'reinvent' themselves to survive in a more marketised landscape
The way universities perceive and handle flexible hours is an area for improvement, says a joint report by employers and unions
Former European Commissioner to lead a national review to address “systemic gender inequality” in higher education
Women who head universities say their gender is an extra job
We talk to the latest Sêr Cymru research chair
Women in university senior management earn significantly less than men in equivalent roles, says new report
But university governing body says it recognises ‘distress’ caused to Nobel laureate and his UCL scientist wife by his dismissal
The equality charter’s influence, take-up and ambitions are growing, writes Holly Else, but so are expectations
