Gender gap ‘impossible to overcome’ without ‘intervention’
Times Higher Education
Everyday researchers must be promoted equitably and star researchers must be hired equitably, New Zealand study finds.
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USC fraternity battle spotlights academia’s failings on abuse
Times Higher Education
Chapters’ severing of campus affiliation predicted to show US sector’s reluctance to challenge ‘Greek life’ abuses.
Is Japanese higher education finally becoming a woman’s place?
Times Higher Education
Japan ranks low for gender equality and Japanese women have long complained that the domestic demands on them.
Norway bids to attract men to female-dominated university courses
Times Higher Education
Experts say well-researched tools will be needed to draw more young men into medicine, psychology, dentistry and veterinary studies.
Pandemic impact on female publishing ‘smaller than thought’
Times Higher Education
In some countries, male researchers’ article output appears to have been more adversely affected, according to new study.
Science a key ally to tackle the multiple challenges we face
Horizon Magazine
Jean-Eric Paquet has been at the helm of the Horizon programme and DG Research and Innovation for the past four years.
Launch of the EU Award for Gender Equality Champions
European Commission
Today, the Commission launches the EU Award for Gender Equality Champions, a new prize.
Student evaluations show gender bias even in most equal country
Times Higher Education
Male students at university in Iceland tended to rate their female teachers lower than male counterparts in both teaching and course organisation.
People from elite backgrounds increasingly dominate academia
The Washington Post
First-generation academics were always rare. Now they’re vanishing.
Equality scheme letter ‘crossed line’, universities tell Donelan
Times Higher Education
UUK letter to minister says it is ‘unclear what evidence is available’ to back claim that external schemes threaten free speech and requests meeting.
Recruitment reforms urged to curb French ‘moustache positions’
Times Higher Education
Parisian professor says hers is the first to appoint a selection committee by lot, an approach that should be taken up nationwide.
Donelan tells universities to consider leaving equality schemes
Times Higher Education
English institutions told to ‘reflect carefully’ on whether initiatives such as Race Equality Charter are in conflict with duty to uphold free speech.
Sharing new and innovative measures for structural change
GENDER-NET Plus
What kind of measures can be useful to improve gender balance in senior positions and research management in academia?
Are US universities driving inequality?
Times Higher Education
Once lauded as engines of social mobility, American universities are increasingly perceived as widening social and economic injustices.
Tackling campus sexual misconduct ‘needs actions, not just words’
Times Higher Education
Change is finally beginning to happen across higher education but campaigners say structural change is needed, not sticking plasters.
Female researchers ‘much less likely to get authorship credit’
Times Higher Education
Lab-by-lab approach determining who gets credit and who doesn’t must be replaced by more comprehensive policies, researchers say.