Athena Swan ‘fosters complacency’ as universities stay on bronze

Isn't it time to drop Athena Swan and have an award which measures equality for all ? Being a member of an Athena Swan board at my institution, I was appalled with its approach as the entire efforts were based around examining and addressing gender inequality for senior academic women ( the same demographic as the VC) and nobody else, including the women working in catering and residences at the other end of the spectrum whose conditions were being made degraded. The data we examined could have been interpreted as a bias against men working in Professional Services at grades 6 to 8 but there was no interest in examining that inequality presumably as it didn't fit the agenda.

Athena Swan is a joke award and it is simply money grabbing exercise, who cares about your silly Bronze, Silver and Gold awards it is a joke organisation and it is not needed. Just a load of bureaucrats try to scam money out of Universities. Designed to make sure lots of women get often unjustified pay rises and promotions.