Disturbing details of sexual harassment scandal at UC Berkeley revealed in files
The Guardian
Documents offer redacted versions of investigation reports and disciplinary actions for cases involving staff that substantiated allegations of misconduct
Welcoming Back Accused Serial Harasser
Insidehighered.com
Faculty and students protest return of professor accused of harassment and assault to campus after a one-term unpaid leave.
Do new mothers doing a PhD get enough support?
Times Higher Education
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?
What Works: Gender Equality by Design, by Iris Bohnet
Times Higher Education
Book of the week: With people vulnerable to bias, lack of diversity might be better tackled at organisational level, Victoria Bateman says.
More women in senior university jobs, says report
Times Higher Education
The share of women in management or governor roles has steadily increased over the past two years, analysis shows.
Women under-represented in worlds science academies
Nature
Fewer than half of academies have policies in place to boost gender equality in membership.
The Secretariat contributes to gender perspectives in Horizon 2020
Genus.se
The Swedish Secretariat for Gender Research is participating in a new advocacy platform intended to promote among for example gender perspectives in the EU research programme Horizon 2020.
The remarkably different answers men and women give when asked whos the smartest in the class
Washington Post
Male students assumed their male classmates knew more about course material than female students even if the young women earned better grades.
Heres a list of smart women political scientists. They know stuff, too.
Washington Post
Women Also Know Stuff. Does that sound obvious? Its not, alas. Were a group of political scientists who started that website when, as we consumed media reports on politics, we noted a gaping absence of
well, women.
Revealed: how ethnic minority graduates lose out on jobs
The Guardian
A groundbreaking study identifies significant disparities in life chances among UK students.
Gender bias: a ladder made for men
EuroScientist journal
How does explicit and implicit bias affect gender balance in academia?
What future for women in Chinese higher education?
Times Higher Education
A paper argues that Chinas one-child policy helped women to break into higher education. With the demise of the policy, could female progress go into reverse?
Biased students give BME academics lower NSS scores, says study
Times Higher Education
University of Reading research finds link between undergraduate satisfaction and ethnicity of lecturers.
Female engineers publish in better journals, but receive fewer citations
Science
Nearly everyone agrees that science has a gender problem. But the size of the gap depends on the area of science.