Career advice: how to be a female leader in higher education
Times Higher Education
To mark International Women’s Day, academics and administrators reflect on leadership challenges.
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Opinion: there is no female version of the ‘old boys’ network’
Times Higher Education
There are very few outlets for women to work together against unhelpful concepts that hold back female progression in academia, says Elisabeth J. Vargo.
The Challenges Women Face in Pursuing a Career in STEM
Global Engage
Guro E. Lind is a group leader at the Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital and a professor at the University of Oslo.
Article: The Gender-Equality Paradox
Psychological Science
The underrepresentation of women in STEM fields is a continual concern. Paradoxically, the sex differences rose with increases in national gender equality.
Women’s careers are not like pipelines
Times Higher Education
The ‘leaky pipeline’ metaphor for the lack of women at senior levels of academia can demotivate those whose professional paths meander, says Aileen Fyfe.
Research-intensive universities ‘offer best maternity pay’
Times Higher Education
Generous leave packages used as a strategy to retain top female researchers in elite institutions, study suggests.
Work-life balance survey 2018
Times Higher Education
Times Higher Education’s first major global survey of university staff views on work-life balance finds academics feeling stressed and underpaid.
I Spent Two Years Trying to Fix the Gender Imbalance in My Stories
The Atlantic
Here’s what I’ve learned, and why I did it.
I Spent Two Years Trying to Fix the Gender Imbalance in My Stories
The Atlantic
Here’s what I’ve learned, and why I did it.
Blog: We need a bigger conversation about bullying in academia
The Guardian
I was routinely humiliated by my head of department. Universities must tackle bullying, writes Academics Anonymous.
Advice paper: Implicit bias in academia
LERU
The paper focuses on implicit gender bias and shows the evidence that implicit gender bias plays a role at many levels.
The impact of implicit bias for women in academia
LERU
The League of European Research Universities (LERU) has been delving into how implicit bias potentially undermines the academic meritocracy.
Why are women of colour still so underrepresented in academia?
Media Diversified
Most students are likely to leave university never having encountered a professor of colour, especially a woman, writes Sadiah Qureshi.
Women Report High Levels of Gender Discrimination
Seeker.com
A survey from the Pew Research Center shows half of all women working in STEM industries reported experiencing workplace discrimination.
When suffragists kicked open the lab door
Nature
Elizabeth Bruton lauds a book tracing how women in wartime science blazed a path to the vote and beyond.
A Scientist's Gender Can Skew Research Results
NPR Science Desk
The results of an IQ test can depend on the gender of the person who's conducting the test. Likewise, studies of pain medication can be completely thrown off by the gender of the experimenter.