Staff diversity: sex and gender
Does your academic CV stand up to scrutiny? Chris Parr blogs about the case of Connie St Louis
Women made only 13 per cent of applications to flagship scheme for senior research leaders, council points out
Appointment of first black female university leader is watershed moment
SUSTAIN programme includes year-long training programme
Plans come after THE analysis revealed 18.2 per cent pay difference
Destination of Leavers from Higher Education study reveals outcomes for 2014 graduates
A lack of clarity on how to report incidents in UK universities is problematic, says Susuana Antubam
World University Rankings analysis reveals the best female-led institutions
More than half of female students reading science subjects at the University of Bristol said that they have felt uncomfortable at the institution because of their gender
Sir Tim Hunt complains of “trouble with girls” in labs, but male egos can be far more obstructive to science, says Ottoline Leyser
Nobel laureate Sir Tim Hunt has resigned from his position on a Royal Society committee as well as an honorary UCL professorship
As the gender equality charter mark prepares to celebrate its 10th anniversary, it looks to partner with a local agency in Australia
A Nobel Prize-winning fellow of the Royal Society has apologised after saying he was in favour of single sex laboratories.
Sector fine-tunes policies aimed at addressing under-representation of female academics. Jon Marcus reports from Copenhagen
Provost says university’s size will help it hit a ‘moral’ target of 50 per cent women across its professoriate and board
Sussex researcher speaks of ‘disbelief’ at comments over paper on gender bias
Initial cohort of 20 funded researchers will receive tailored training and support to help stem leaks in the ‘pipeline’ to senior posts
Project Vox aims to illuminate key female thinkers absent from the discipline’s history
Putting grant application and success rates under the microscope could help rectify universities’ gender imbalance
Only two research councils have equal proportion of female applicants and academics
THE analysis reveals progress in closing gap, but female academics still earn nearly ?6K less than men
Study suggest that most of the gender pay gap is ‘caused by discrimination’
Conditions for female academics in some university history departments “smack still of the 1970s”, according to a new report
The Royal Society has not been able to find any reason why so few women were successful in securing awards from one of its fellowship schemes in 2014
Professors are several percentage points more likely to be women than they were a decade ago, new figures show
Women in higher education in South Asia are not being identified and prepared for leadership roles in universities, a new report suggests
Women on academic contracts earn ?8,400 less than men, according to Equal Pay Review 2014, but the gap has closed by ?110 since 2012
Lisa Downing examines what ‘deviant women’ such as Ayn Rand and Margaret Thatcher reveal about attitudes towards feminine ‘nature’
The sector would do well to consider setting a target for the proportion of women heading universities, says Simonetta?Manfredi
Little change in uptake over past 10 years despite millions spent on initiatives to widen participation in STEM subjects
Research shows female scholars opting for short talks over long ones, even at a gender-balanced event
An academic who suffered sexual harassment criticises the secrecy surrounding such cases
Universities need to ensure that those with everyday contact with young people recognise and challenge abuse, says Miriam David
A one-day conference has explored how to overcome the challenges faced by women in academic medicine
Women find cultural attitudes impede their career advancement, says university leader
Head of project to increase female numbers attacks ‘patronising’ marketing tactics
Quotas suggested as women’s success rate for Royal Society fellowships falls
A research funder has seen success rates for women applying to one of its fellowships plummet by more than 30 per cent since 2010
Business sponsorship ‘enables’ gender-specific recruitment at ?cole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Analysis suggests that male physicists and mathematicians author nearly 50 per cent more papers than female colleagues
Researcher at University of Montreal laments the difficulty of recruiting male scientists to her all-female unit
Women are greatly underrepresented in the laboratories of the highest-achieving male biology professors in the US, a study has revealed.
Study proposes code of practice for recruitment firms to help address inequality
The government has launched a campaign to attract more women into careers in science, technology, engineering and maths.
Australian survey suggests women pay a higher career penalty when they become parents
Poor levels of financial support will ‘force women to return to work too quickly’
The Athena SWAN charter does advance gender equality in university departments that sign up to it, according to an independent review of the scheme.
More men must be encouraged into female-dominated areas such as nursing and teaching, says Ucas chief
College’s output of female scientists has the caught the attention of the White House
Six publicly funded research institutes have won Athena SWAN awards for promoting good employment practices for women in science.
Scepticism that proposal to encourage diversity could effectively regulate sector
New space at the LSE for The Women’s Library is the first chapter in exploiting a vast resource
Research Councils UK analysis reveals gender difference in success rates
‘Gender-hostile’ work environments still high on list of problems
Audit finds lack of women on university boards affects female v-c numbers
Almost one in three senior female academics feels their institution treats staff unfairly in relation to gender, a survey has found
