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3 avril 2019

Beyond the binary: how teaching children about gender could help reduce sexism

The ConversationIn the wake of the #MeToo movement, addressing gender inequality in New Zealand remains a challenge. As the first country to grant women the vote, we have a long way to go to until there’s genuine equality across all genders. More...

3 avril 2019

Professionally Productive Vulnerability

Recently, researchers studying the effects of female-only networks on women’s professional development and job placement revealed that these networks are essential to the success of women leaders. More...

3 avril 2019

University Calls Off Conference Amid Protests From Transgender Activists

HomeBy Jack Grove for Times Higher Education. Threats by transgender rights activists to disrupt an academic conference on prison reform over the organizer’s allegedly “transphobic” views on how inmates should be segregated have led to its cancellation. More...

2 avril 2019

If Academics Ruled Basketball (Women's Edition)

HomeBy Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. How would the NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament look if success in the classroom mattered more than talent on the court? Here's the annual Academic Performance Tournament. More...

2 avril 2019

Climbing Faculty Ladder Still Challenge for Women

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. An analysis of female academic life by Bridget Turner Kelly, associate professor of education at the University of Maryland at College Park, published by the Brookings Institution, says that at best, “the process of advancing through tenure remains stagnant for women professors, at worst, some could say women ascending the professor ladder is now harder than ever.” The higher on the ladder one looks, Kelly wrote, the fewer tenured women there are. More...

1 avril 2019

Mind the Gap

HomeScott McLemee evaluates international research -- and the resulting attention -- focused on the gender gap in the publication of articles in academic journals. More...

1 avril 2019

Equal Protection for Trans Students

HomeThe Trump administration's plan to remove legal protections for transgender students could limit access to higher education and harm the Education Department's legacy, two community college presidents write. More...

1 avril 2019

Why AI needs more women

Techno-News BlogHow can we make data more human, if as a human race we cannot even agree on what it is to be human? How do we ensure algorithms work fairly when we cannot agree on what fairness looks like? Role models are vitally important in showing girls and women that they too can work in data science and that this career choice is an option for them. More...

31 mars 2019

More Teenage Girls Than Boys Plan for 4-Year College

Techno-News BlogToday’s teenagers appear likely to reinforce, rather than reverse, the widening gender gap in four-year college enrollment, a survey by Pew Research Center finds. More...

31 mars 2019

Working to Close the Gender Gap in IT

Techno-News Blog What is the current state of the gender gap in the higher education IT workforce? According to the latest research from Educause, there’s good news and bad news: On the one hand, the number of female IT staffers has been increasing; on the other, fewer women are being promoted into CIO positions. More...

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