Gender

Consultation options look to reduce administrative burden of flagship scheme

Three professors accused by nine women of using academic powers to press for sex

Universities urged to reconsider use of large introductory lectures

As in the UK and the US, universities face questions about whether their curricula feature enough non-white voices

Updated settlement ties racial and gender distribution to national shares of population

Marking down fellowship applicants for being unwilling to move institutions can be deeply unfair, say Trisha Greenhalgh and Ed Hawkins

Evolutionary processes are slow, but University of Oxford research shows the scheme is improving gender equality, says Pavel Ovseiko

Justine Pila describes how men co-opt women in their academic agendas

Nesta finds proportion of female AI researchers was higher in the mid-1990s – although universities fare better than tech firms

In today’s political and psychological climate, teaching some liberal arts standards has become an abyss to avoid, says Crispin Sartwell

Facilitated meetings can encourage early admissions of guilt from perpetrators and provide recognition of victims’ experiences, says Clare McGlynn

Only a quarter of biology conferences set rules on attendee behaviour and penalties for misconduct are even rarer, study finds

Study backs up earlier findings that women are less likely to ask questions at conferences, even when they are in majority – but that raising awareness of the issue can have a big impact

Survey finds that almost a fifth of LGBT+ researchers in the physical sciences have personally experienced harassment or other exclusionary behaviour

Data on more than 19,000 institutions show Europe lags behind leading anglophone sectors on female leadership

Jessica Wade tells THE summit that younger institutions can create better equality policies from scratch

Identical CVs with different names on them sent to 250 academics in experiment

Projects for tackling gender equality in Indian higher education must be extended to the whole system, says Antara Sengupta

Academics call for development of clear policies on misconduct, and lifetime bans for offenders

Judge says that salaries paid to Catherine Freyd’s colleagues reflect departmental roles and retention raises

Australian university agrees to ‘further change’ at residential colleges

The adoption of an Athena SWAN-style initiative is undermined by a failure to meaningfully consult Indigenous Peoples, say Karen Lawford and Jamie Lundine

Experiment that saw students take tests in temperatures ranging from 16ºC to 33ºC finds men appear to score highest in the cold

The new president of the Royal Economic Society on the need for economists to be more engaging and why being a woman is an advantage in the field

More needs to be done to encourage women into technology and engineering at school, say observers

New reports uncover widespread gossip, harassment, verbal abuse and ‘scientific sabotage’ in Dutch universities – with women particularly affected

University promises study of how former vice-provost’s behaviour persisted for so long

Experts debate merits of approaches including across-the-board rises for women and the longer, harder challenge of changing cultures

Emma Rees celebrates a new generation of online feminist campaigners

New policy would allow for removal of members following two-thirds vote of governing council

At the University of Iceland, female students outnumber men by two to one. But among professors, the ratio is the reverse

Request a Woman Scientist holds the details of more than 8,000 experts, but journalists and event organisers are still relying on old sources who are male and pale, group leader warns

The world’s most gender equal universities, according to THE data, cite data-informed recruitment methods as a key factor in their success

Emma Dabiri’s research uncovers the ways that our immediate reactions to people are still underpinned by the ideologies of ‘scientific racism’

Current remedies are not enough. Publishers, editors and referees must do more to eliminate lurking biases, say Melinda Duer and Athene Donald

Bias would be reduced if grant applicants’ capabilities were considered only after assessment of their anonymised proposals, says David Sanders