Practise what you preach: Equality and diversity at NUI Galway
Silicon Republic
Dr Dara Stanley and Dr Jessamyn Fairfield sat down with Prof Anne Scott to discuss how gender equality issues can be prioritised at an institutional level.
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Step by step, we're tackling gender equity in Australian astronomy
Phys.org
The number of women at the most senior levels in the Australian astronomical community remains low despite many positive steps in supporting gender equity.
10% gender pay gap: stop victim-blaming, start bias proofing says UCU RHUL committee
The Orbital
The UCU Royal Holloway local branch committee welcomes Abbie Cheeseman’s article entitled A Feminist Institution with a 10% Gender Pay Gap?
A Feminist Institution with a 10% Gender Pay Gap?
The Orbital
A list of the ten highest gender pay gaps for full-time professors in the UK placed Royal Holloway at number seven, with an average of £7,735 difference in wages between men and women.
Varsity students in gender equality bid
The Gulf Today
Students from Canadian University Dubai have begun a campaign which aims to highlight the need for women to support each other for gender equality.
Transgender student forced to strip in hazing ceremony
Pink News
A University in Salaya, Thailand, has launched a probe into senior students after they forced a freshman transgender student to strip in a hazing ceremony.
Diversifying the Intellectual Leadership of Scholarly Publishing
The Scholarly Kitchen
The American academic and cultural heritage communities are not keeping up with societal needs for diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Pressemelding: Større viden om køn og ligestilling giver frie og kvalificerede uddannelsesvalg
Undervisningsministeriet
Rapport anbefaler større bevidsthed om køn og ligestilling.
Article: The Academic Conference as a Chilly Climate for Women (paywall)
Springer
Men’s perceptions of sexism predicted increased intentions to exit from that particular conference, but not from academia.
She May Be The Most Unstoppable Scientist In The World
National Public Radio (NPR)
Dauqan is a woman scientist in what's possibly the hardest place on Earth to be a woman: Yemen.
UC Researchers to Lead Cincinnati Gender Equality Study
University of Cincinnati
The city of Cincinnati tapped UC researchers Amy Lind and Anne Sisson Runyan to lead a citywide gender equality analysis.
Don't call students `genius', it's not gender-neutral
Times of India
Cambridge University examiners have been warned against using words such as "flair", "brilliance" and "genius" when assessing students' work because they were associated with men.
Calling all female business scholars!
Uniforum
Does lack of gender balance in business scholarship matter to the scholarship itself? Certainly a homogenous group may tend to suffer from groupthink and become an echo chamber, writes Beate Sjåfjell.
Discussion on gender mainstreaming in university curricula
Times of Malta
A symposium entitled ‘Gender mainstreaming in university curricula’ was recently organised by the University of Malta’s Gender Issues Committee (GIC).
Feminism 101: dealing with a sexist set on disrupting the class
Times Higher Education
Contentious questions about sexuality and gender need to be discussed robustly but respectfully, academic argues.
University of Chester’s psychology team rewarded for gender equality
The Chester Chronicle
Department handed a Bronze Athena SWAN award