With the climate crisis as backdrop, university employees have demanded a reduction in air travel. Could cutting air travel also lead to greater gender equality?

“I know what to do to make gender equality work succeed, but it is only rarely that I am allowed to do it.” This is how Eva Mark began her lecture at the Network Meeting for gender equality workers 29 May.

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

Women move abroad less often, and when they do, they gain less from it than male researchers, according to a new study.

We have to be good teachers, good researchers and good at administrative work. This means we are doomed to fail, according to the editors of a book about women and failure in academia.

“It is more important for the universities to become adept at marketing the engineering sciences to women rather than designing measures such as gender points to increase their numbers,” says Svandis Benediktsdottir, Gender Equality Adviser at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

Declining interest in STEM subjects and lower achievement should prompt action, according to Guro Rørvik, head of the National Centre for STEM Recruitment.

Research is built on the core values of openness, trust and international collaboration. Security, by contrast, is about protecting national interests, chains of command and compliance, says Silje A. Hole of the Institute for Energy Technology.

“My impression is that many PhD students and post-docs get used as workhorses on research projects,” says a former employee representative for researchers.

Both the University of Oslo and the University of Bergen are hoping that the Gender Equality Act will be amended. It is the only way they will get their wish to use gender quotas to admit men to professional studies in psychology.