Gender

Trends in international mobility may explain why fewer women are reaching the top ranks of academia, a Spanish study suggests

World University Rankings analysis highlights top female university leaders

More than three-quarters of staff who will receive pay rises are female or ethnic minorities

Bugewa Apampa becomes one of just 18 black women with UK professorships

Dutch researchers find female academics 11 percentage points less likely to hit promotion threshold in course evaluations

A leading physicist, activist and author has died

Academics tell Heriot-Watt University researcher they felt they ‘couldn’t be feminist and black’

Despite a long history of trailblazing female academics, Europe's academy is making slow progress in promoting more women to senior roles, says lobby group

However, dean at Asian University for Women in Bangladesh says the number of female leaders on the continent is rising

New College forced to clarify that event for ‘old members’ at London gentlemen’s club is open to both sexes after dress code was described as ‘collared shirt and jacket’

There is no shortage of ways for universities to make it easier for those with children to attend scholarly conferences, says Rachel Moss

In academia, and more widely, women are too easily relegated to the ‘less competent than men’ category, writes Dame Athene Donald

The new education secretary has much to get to grips with as she arrives at the Department for Education

New exhibition celebrates the achievements of 12 female academics at the University of Sussex through photographic portraits inspired by Rembrandt

Lawsuit against University of Cincinnati claims decision went against US gender discrimination laws. Maxine Joselow reports for Inside Higher Ed.

Higher education institutions in Ireland should face financial penalties if they do not hit targets on diversity, report recommends

Progressing from junior faculty to tenured professor is extremely difficult, but following ‘action-oriented’ competencies can help, research suggests

National University of Ireland, Galway will introduce a raft of policies to tackle its deficit of women in leadership positions

Giving female scholars one-off sums to ‘compensate’ for the pay gap rewards biology rather than merit, argues Joanna Williams

Eight years ago, Carol Hay and John Kaag took the same position at the same university, and their lives since then offer fascinating insight into academic career progression 

Jillian Powers is leaving academia, and believes she is only one of many walking out the door

Academia, like the business world, has a long way to go in the battle for equality and must do more, says Maggie Dallman

Radical action to erase disparity comes as new figures show lingering gender pay deficit across UK universities

Misty Bentz is the inventor of ‘Phynd the Physicist’, a game designed to open dialogue among students about inclusion

Matthew Reisz reflects on the testimonies of gay academics about how the academy has changed and needs to change more

Durham, Edinburgh and Queen’s University Belfast pick up inaugural awards for arts, humanities and social science departments

Janet Beer says radical action is needed to increase the number of women working at higher levels in universities

Investing in the education of millions of young people can help defuse a security time bomb, argue Faisal Abbas and Abdur Rehman Cheema

Paper explores the emotional costs for women of working in ultra-competitive environments

Number of women in high performance computing and science in general is worryingly low, says scholar who leads group for female academics in her field

Gaining a PhD is a tough act for most students, so how do those with new babies cope while having the additional demands of parenthood?

Female students also 'quicker to assimilate than men' with others on course, says HKUST business school academic

Banners put up across Chinese university campuses have strange take on annual event

Jenny Pickerill reflects on how to overcome sexism and stereotypes in higher education

Institutions are criticised in UCU report for allowing 'shameful levels of pay inequality' to persist

McGill’s leading astrophysicist talks fundamental science research, academic gender imbalances and amateur dramatics as a parent

UK among the worst performers in analysis of 69 national academies

The share of women in management or governor roles has steadily increased over the past two years, analysis shows

No more than 75 per cent of a discipline’s students should be of the same gender, says funding council

Oxford pro vice-chancellor Sally Mapstone to take on role vacated by Louise Richardson

Jem Bloomfield doesn’t recognise the picture of a higher education system that panders to female students and glories in marginalising their male peers

Survey suggests 3 per cent of higher and further education workers have been physically assaulted because they are homosexual, bisexual or transsexual

Why are researchers preoccupied with 'lad culture' when the under-representation of men among students is the real problem, asks Joanna Williams

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press

Canadian university admits video aimed at promoting energy saving by showing a female teacher receiving suggestive compliment was sexist

Researchers cite high levels of independence and the need for social perceptiveness as factors

A paper argues that China’s one-child policy helped women to break into higher education. With the demise of the policy, could female progress go into reverse?

Two researchers have got to grips with the evolution of the penis

If more women are to benefit from the gender equality that society prizes, it is time for the world of work to change, says Victoria Bateman

The most popular higher education articles of the year, based on website traffic

Goldsmiths conference looks at issue of harassment on campus – and why it is often ignored or dismissed

I had assumed stories about campus political correctness might be overblown. But the experience of my friend is an example of how deeply it permeates universities

Official figures show gap fell 2.4 percentage points for full-time staff

Press release stating intent to mark event is withdrawn after receiving instant social media backlash

Brown University dean on gender mix in senior university management

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press

Vast majority find position in STEM-related careers, although fewer stay in research over the longer term

Women with partners who have full-time jobs find it more difficult to get over ‘glass fence’ and move abroad, study suggests

Women Inspire aims to show how the fight for the vote still has much to teach us today

Victoria Bateman looks at the gender mix within economics and details her own attempts to encourage more women into the discipline