Staff diversity: sex and gender
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 鈥榣ad culture鈥
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 鈥渟ystemic gender inequality鈥 in higher education
Women who head universities say their gender is an extra job
We talk to the latest S锚r 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 鈥榙istress鈥 caused to Nobel laureate and his UCL scientist wife by his dismissal
The equality charter鈥檚 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 糖心Vlog 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 鈥渢rouble with girls鈥 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鈥檚 size will help it hit a 鈥榤oral鈥 target of 50 per cent women across its professoriate and board
Sussex researcher speaks of 鈥榙isbelief鈥 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 鈥榩ipeline鈥 to senior posts
Project Vox aims to illuminate key female thinkers absent from the discipline鈥檚 history
Putting grant application and success rates under the microscope could help rectify universities鈥 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 拢6K less than men
Study suggest that most of the gender pay gap is 鈥榗aused by discrimination鈥
Conditions for female academics in some university history departments 鈥渟mack still of the 1970s鈥, 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
Women in higher education in South Asia are not being identified and prepared for leadership roles in universities, a new report suggests
Women on academic contracts earn 拢8,400 less than men, according to Equal Pay Review 2014, but the gap has closed by 拢110 since 2012
The sector would do well to consider setting a target for the proportion of women heading universities, says Simonetta聽Manfredi
Lisa Downing examines what 鈥榙eviant women鈥 such as Ayn Rand and Margaret Thatcher reveal about attitudes towards feminine 鈥榥ature鈥
Little change in uptake over past 10 years despite millions spent on initiatives to widen participation in STEM subjects
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
Women find cultural attitudes impede their career advancement, says university leader
Head of project to increase female numbers attacks 鈥榩atronising鈥 marketing tactics
Quotas suggested as women鈥檚 success rate for Royal Society fellowships falls
A research funder has seen success rates for women applying to one of its fellowships plummet by more than 30 per cent since 2010
Business sponsorship 鈥榚nables鈥 gender-specific recruitment at 脡cole Polytechnique F茅d茅rale de Lausanne
Analysis suggests that male physicists and mathematicians author nearly 50 per cent more papers than female colleagues
Researcher at University of Montreal laments the difficulty of recruiting male scientists to her all-female unit
Women are greatly underrepresented in the laboratories of the highest-achieving male biology professors in the US, a study has revealed.
Study proposes code of practice for recruitment firms to help address inequality
The government has launched a campaign to attract more women into careers in science, technology, engineering and maths.
