Gender

Transition to ‘make-or-break’ stage for female academics is a significant challenge, study explains

Discipline may fund women fairly because of a better awareness of the ‘ingrained, institutionalized male culture of universities’

First female president of Universities UK jokes that ‘it’s only been 100 years’ before a woman filled the post

Intervention required to address the issue of under-representation, say Susanne Choi Yuk Ping and Sally Ka-wing Lo

Karen Shook speaks to the author of SlutWalk: Feminism, Activism and Media

Hefce study finds large differences in submission rates by ethnicity and gender

Warwick study highlights high dropout rate and queries social mobility benefits

We don’t need to ‘fix the women’, we need to fix the system, says Dame Athene Donald

French research finds that undergraduates give higher scores to male teachers

Body behind the Athena SWAN gender equality initiative names first institutions to receive award to promote racial diversity

Conference paper challenges argument that gender-balanced committees boost female candidates

Trinity College Dublin and the University of Limerick become the first organisations outside the UK to gain an Athena SWAN charter mark for gender equality

Matthew Reisz looks for the value in dull pictures of long-forgotten vice-chancellors

Head of Canterbury Christ Church, which has seen female representation almost triple on its board, says more needs to be done to seek out talent

NUS study highlights shortcomings in policies and training to tackle ‘lad culture’

Research shows female ITT leaders having to 'reinvent' themselves to survive in a more marketised landscape

The way universities perceive and handle flexible hours is an area for improvement, says a joint report by employers and unions

Former European Commissioner to lead a national review to address “systemic gender inequality” in higher education

Women who head universities say their gender is an extra job

We talk to the latest Sêr Cymru research chair

Women in university senior management earn significantly less than men in equivalent roles, says new report

But university governing body says it recognises ‘distress’ caused to Nobel laureate and his UCL scientist wife by his dismissal

The equality charter’s influence, take-up and ambitions are growing, writes Holly Else, but so are expectations

Does your academic CV stand up to scrutiny? Chris Parr blogs about the case of Connie St Louis

Women made only 13 per cent of applications to flagship scheme for senior research leaders, council points out

Appointment of first black female university leader is watershed moment

SUSTAIN programme includes year-long training programme

Plans come after THE analysis revealed 18.2 per cent pay difference

Destination of Leavers from Higher Education study reveals outcomes for 2014 graduates

A lack of clarity on how to report incidents in UK universities is problematic, says Susuana Antubam

World University Rankings analysis reveals the best female-led institutions

More than half of female students reading science subjects at the University of Bristol said that they have felt uncomfortable at the institution because of their gender

Sir Tim Hunt complains of “trouble with girls” in labs, but male egos can be far more obstructive to science, says Ottoline Leyser

Nobel laureate Sir Tim Hunt has resigned from his position on a Royal Society committee as well as an honorary UCL professorship

As the gender equality charter mark prepares to celebrate its 10th anniversary, it looks to partner with a local agency in Australia

A Nobel Prize-winning fellow of the Royal Society has apologised after saying he was in favour of single sex laboratories.

Sector fine-tunes policies aimed at addressing under-representation of female academics. Jon Marcus reports from Copenhagen

Provost says university’s size will help it hit a ‘moral’ target of 50 per cent women across its professoriate and board

Sussex researcher speaks of ‘disbelief’ at comments over paper on gender bias

Initial cohort of 20 funded researchers will receive tailored training and support to help stem leaks in the ‘pipeline’ to senior posts

Project Vox aims to illuminate key female thinkers absent from the discipline’s history

Putting grant application and success rates under the microscope could help rectify universities’ gender imbalance

Only two research councils have equal proportion of female applicants and academics

THE analysis reveals progress in closing gap, but female academics still earn nearly £6K less than men

Study suggest that most of the gender pay gap is ‘caused by discrimination’

Conditions for female academics in some university history departments “smack still of the 1970s”, according to a new report

The Royal Society has not been able to find any reason why so few women were successful in securing awards from one of its fellowship schemes in 2014

Professors are several percentage points more likely to be women than they were a decade ago, new figures show

By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed

Women in higher education in South Asia are not being identified and prepared for leadership roles in universities, a new report suggests

By Colleen Flaherty, for Inside Higher Ed

Women on academic contracts earn £8,400 less than men, according to Equal Pay Review 2014, but the gap has closed by £110 since 2012

The sector would do well to consider setting a target for the proportion of women heading universities, says Simonetta Manfredi

Lisa Downing examines what ‘deviant women’ such as Ayn Rand and Margaret Thatcher reveal about attitudes towards feminine ‘nature’

Little change in uptake over past 10 years despite millions spent on initiatives to widen participation in STEM subjects

By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed

Research shows female scholars opting for short talks over long ones, even at a gender-balanced event

An academic who suffered sexual harassment criticises the secrecy surrounding such cases

Universities need to ensure that those with everyday contact with young people recognise and challenge abuse, says Miriam David

A one-day conference has explored how to overcome the challenges faced by women in academic medicine