One in three UK universities going backwards on female professorships
Times Higher Education
New data show proportion of professors who are women has declined at some institutions.
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Gender pay gap in academia will take 40 years to close
The Guardian
Union report attributes gap to the under-representation of women at senior levels in universities.
Female authors get fewer citations in astronomy
Science
Papers with female first authors receive 10% fewer citations than comparable papers with male first authors, a new study in Nature Astronomy reports.
Gay university students feel invisible. It’s time to shine a light on their issues
Mamba Online
The Eastern Cape is South Africa’s most conservative province when it comes to attitudes about homosexuality.
Lawsuit at Columbia University
Science
A sex discrimination lawsuit filed last week has exposed a nasty fight roiling one of the most prominent, and well-funded, labs studying the mysterious condition CFS/ME.
Arizona universities push for gender equality when hiring faculty
Havasu News
Usha Jagannathan applied for a full-time community college teaching position year after year for more than a decade.
Anonymous Academic: The trouble with the sisterhood in academia
The Guardian
Female academics can be just as aggressively competitive with other colleagues as men, but it slips under the radar.
Uni to integrate gender equality as curriculum
The National
The University of Papua New Guinea’s School of Business and Public Policy will integrate gender equality into its curriculum as part of a new approach to changing behaviours.
Women earn between £8,000 and £9,000 less than men at Wales' top universities
Wales Online
Wales’s top two universities have among the widest gender pay gap for senior academics in the UK.
Gender studies under attack from the new right
Times Higher Education
In Hungary, Poland, Germany and elsewhere, populist politicians are taking aim at the discipline.
Athena SWAN bronze success for Leeds Beckett
Leeds Beckett University
Leeds Beckett University has been awarded the Athena SWAN Bronze charter from the Equality Challenge Unit.
A Journal Article Provoked a Schism in Philosophy
The Chronicle of Higher Education
The associate editors of Hypatia, a journal of feminist philosophy, apologized on Facebook this week for the publication of "In Defense of Transracialism".
Anonymous Academic: No one told me about the hidden costs of maternity leave
The Guardian
Research needs funding to keep it running even when we’re on leave. So although I have a job to go back to, there may be no money to do it.
6 out of 10 graduates are women
Statistics Norway
For all graduation levels, there were more women than men who graduated in the academic year 2015/16.
MSU holds first Gender Equality Conference in Bozeman
ktvq.com
Montana State University students at the Leadership Institute saw a need for positive discussion on gender-related issues.
Female university leadership in Europe
European University Association
EUA has updated its latest data on women in leadership positions in Europe’s universities. The results show that in the 47 countries with EUA members, only 12% of all rectors are female.