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.
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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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.