Staff diversity: sex and gender
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 École 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
How long before search committees stop assuming that the right man for the top university job is a man?
