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  • Why I had to quit

    • 20 Mar 2020
    • Anonymous

    Sexism, unthinking managerialism and toxic ‘them and us’ attitudes are still pervasive within UK universities, according to an anonymous academic who found the dissonances between her values, career expectations and lived reality too much to bear

  • Interview with Kate Lister

    • 20 Mar 2020
    • Jack Grove

    Sex historian Kate Lister on her unusual sleeping habits, Victorian pornography and challenging the stigma of sex work

  • Culture of exploitation? Heavy burden on minority female scholars

    • 27 Feb 2020
    • Ellie Bothwell

    Pressure to support diversity efforts and BAME students drives ethnic minority women to take on unrewarded duties to the detriment of their career progression and mental health, academics say

  • The gender pay gap can’t be explained away

    • 27 Feb 2020
    • Ann Brower and Alex James

    Even women with identical performance ratings to men suffer large pay deficits. This must be fixed, say Ann Brower and Alex James

  • Female academics need to embrace competition

    • 27 Feb 2020
    • Sun Young Lee

    Removing biases in the system may not be enough to achieve a truly equal gender balance, says Sun Young Lee