Our readers were most concerned about the fact that women take on the majority of academic housework – the service work in academia.

In Norway we call it sexual harassment in academia, and in Europe it is known as gender-based violence.

“We didn’t think that international recruitment would influence the gender balance in academia in favour of more women in senior positions, but we were wrong,” says researcher Kaja Wendt.

Changing the expectation that staff should work around the clock could encourage more women to work in technology, according to Gilda Seddighi.

“It’s both surprising and not really that big a revelation that everyday racism is fairly similar whether you work in academia or anywhere else,” says Mona Abdel-Fadil, researcher at the Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies.

How common is it to be a first-generation academic in Norway? According to researchers in the field, we do not know, because there is so little research on social backgrounds in academia.

The authors of a new report suggest that research institutions must take more responsibility for building an inclusive work community.

A new report has identified trends and knowledge gaps in Norwegian scientific publications on gender equality and diversity in research and innovation. According to the report, it is not a given that measures aimed at gender equality are also effective when it comes to ethnic diversity.

Over half of all female doctoral students have experienced unwanted sexual attention, reveals a new report from Sweden.

Not everyone should take higher education, but every person should have equal rights to education. We need to keep those two ideas in our minds at the same time, believes political scientist Ingvild Reymert.

Organizations from 21 countries recently came together under a new project to promote gender equality in European research policy.

New light has been shed on the long-held myth that female researchers have a publishing problem. It now appears clear that publishing points are far more a matter of one’s academic field and position level, not gender.

How will gender equality efforts in the research sector evolve as we take more and more groups into consideration?

The new KIF Committee has been appointed, and for the first time it has a leader team from both a university and a research institute.