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6 mars 2013

Gender equality in higher education must be made a global priority

Recruiter ServicesBy Louise Tickle. For women to achieve parity in universities, policy measures are needed, but so are practical and imaginative ideas that can be applied globally – Louise Tickle talks to some pioneers.
Around one in five UK university professors are female. That's better than 3%, which was the figure in 1989. But it's nowhere near parity – and in many parts of the world, the number of women working at the top level of academia or in senior university management positions is far worse. The failure of higher education institutions to fully accept women into their most senior structures has led female academics to demand a radical solution. At the British Council's Going Global conference in Dubai, an international grouping of senior women called for equality to be made a key performance indicator in quality audits of higher education institutions. The fewer women at the top table, the idea goes, the lower down the league tables a university would slide.
It's the first demand of six in what is being called a Manifesto for Change for Women in Academic Leadership and Research. Female academics, the manifesto says, must also start getting a lot more of the big money for research projects, with "gender implications and impact" being included by grant making bodies as criteria against which funding applications are assessed. Read more...
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