Gender

Sir John Kingman hints that research councils could withhold funding in cases where universities do not address unfair treatment of staff

Royal Historical Society survey also exposes crisis of overwork in discipline

Scientific excellence must mean more than ‘how good someone is with a round-bottom flask’, conference hears

Academics express anxiety about ultimate reach of proposed policy tying gender to birth

Tokyo Medical University not alone in rigging entrance exams to exclude women

Women and Equalities Committee call for UK to follow US Title IX example, accusing government, regulators and institutions of ‘passing the buck’

New rules requiring a female presence on doctoral defence panels at the University of Glasgow will push more ‘unrewarded’ academic tasks on to women, critics claim

Fear and shame deter foreigners from reporting attacks, University of Canberra study finds

Donna Strickland describes how becoming only the third woman in history to win the physics prize turned her into a ‘rock star’ overnight

Tricksters say they wanted to expose overly politicised research, but scholars are concerned about the motivation behind the sting

Male skew in overseas students conceals female slant among domestic recruits

Study finds further evidence to suggest peer review process riddled with gender and racial bias

Cards including details of support services have been designed to fit in wallets and purses

Complaints process can drag on for several years and is nearly impossible to challenge, says 1752 Group report

Carlos Moedas tells MEPs institutions should introduce allocations for female academics ‘at some point’

Completion rates improve as number of women in a programme increases, US study finds

The Teesside pro vice-chancellor discusses promoting gender balance and being diagnosed with ovarian cancer

National Science Foundation demands that universities report findings of sexual harassment involving anyone working on the projects it has financed

Senior leaders must lead the charge in changing higher education’s structural disadvantages for black and minority ethnic staff and students, say Kalwant Bhopal and Sally Hunt

Efforts to prevent sexual harassment at universities advanced with new policies from top US provider of science funding and world’s biggest general science society

Conservative anger at initiatives to make campuses more inclusive to minority students is misplaced, say Kevin Singer, Laura Dahl, Matthew J. Mayhew and Alyssa N. Rockenbach

The UK’s new research mega-body has huge power to tackle long-standing inequalities, says its new diversity tsar Jennifer Rubin

Psychologist says that more women, minority groups and international students should be part of structures that tackle sexual misconduct

Lecturer claims that myriad online systems in academia reinforce patriarchal dominance

Study challenges the idea that it is primarily parenthood that hinders women’s careers – but in Germany, the picture is very different

Government accused of making universities ‘a safer place to commit assault’, but others say changes will offer better support for victims

Institutions say they don’t doctor their admissions, but figures tell a different story

Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell’s graduate scholarships will help students from under-represented groups

New book weighs merits of secure reporting software that alerts institutions if an alleged offender crops up more than once

Gender bias in the academy is all too real, but we should be just as wary of confirmation bias, says Terri Apter 

The winner of the Royal Society’s Athena Prize talks about tackling sexual harassment and learning that scientific heroes are people, too

Ennio Vivaldi says he stands with student protesters pushing for equality on campuses

Pioneering scholar of black feminism remembered

Institutions should publish the names of lecturers found guilty of sexual misconduct, says head of National Universities Commission

Men account for just 28 per cent of graduates from Iceland’s main university

World-first scheme also covers schools and colleges

Sexual harassment of female lecturers by their students is one of the less discussed aspects of the interplay between gender and power in academia. Kate Cantrell tells her story

Academics claim that funding application deadlines are becoming tighter

University of Adelaide is latest institution to bar men from applying for specific roles

Following proposed ban on teaching of gender studies, continent’s scholarly bodies say government is jeopardising Hungary’s academic standing

‘Dominant discourse of the censor’ must not trump free expression on campus, UWA head says

After a visit to Hungary, Matthew Reisz reflects on how academics can resist simplistic, government-promoted versions of history 

Study offers further insight into the persistent trend for women to be cited less frequently than men

University leaders were given less than 18 hours to respond to state plans to scrap the subject

‘People who have been around at a university for a while assume they know everything…but actually they need to be educated themselves,’ says project leader

Former Columbia University academic Enrichetta Ravina awarded $1.25 million (£953,000) in damages

Pakistani lecturers and students tend to be similar in age, which makes romances inevitable. Universities must do more to raise awareness of the potential fallout of such relationships, say Abur Rehman Cheema and Mehvish Riaz

Four women settle legal action against university over 2008-09 promotion round

The University of the Witwatersrand will not use ‘Mr’, ‘Mrs’ or ‘Miss’ in official communications

New Zealand university library vault delivers blast from the past as history and politics come full circle

Survey reveals widespread prevalence of sexual harassment and bullying in UK specialist institutions

Female academics should follow the lead of women in other sectors and pursue mass claims against their universities, says a Birkbeck scholar

Analysis of THE data finds high publication output and reputation negatively correlated with staff gender balance

First female rector of Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral wants to challenge sexism in Latin American academic culture

A committee investigating sexual harassment at Makerere University has called for the end of ‘rampant’ abuse of students by lecturers

Opportunities to discuss ‘taboo’ subject and new institutional guidelines will help women during the menopause, says University of Manchester

Academic tweets about how he stepped in to prevent colleague being attacked

Tributes paid to pioneering historian who served as first female president of Smith College

Janet Todd’s memoir considers the humiliations of illness and admits to ‘some embarrassment at not being dead’

Campaigners call for universities and funders to address ‘systemic issues’ after study claims academic science has ‘higher’ risk of sexual harassment