HE gender gap worsening in nearly half of world’s countries

World ‘going backwards’ on equal access to higher education

Universities told to spend 5 per cent of total income on equality programmes after report finds UN 2030 goal ‘highly unlikely’ to be met

By Tom Williams

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Elite university intakes ‘as imbalanced as poor nations on income’

New Hepi paper that ranks universities on intake equality illustrates gulf between some Russell Group universities and others

By Simon Baker

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A newborn infant baby girl in a blanket swaddle wraps her tiny hand and fingers around her father and mother's fingers as she sleeps peacefully.

Progress on gender equality ‘set back by lost generation’

Study finds that post-war baby boom probably led to scores of women being lost to American science

By Simon Baker

22 November

View from the MUCEM museum, Marseille, France, showing a woman pushing a pushchair. View is obscured - to illustrate how universities offer little evidence of their gender equality efforts

Most universities fail to show proof of gender equality policies

THE research finds that high share of global institutions fail to provide relevant documentation, despite claiming to have numerous measures aimed at supporting women

By Ellie Bothwell

8 March

HE gender gap worsening in nearly half of world’s countries

Inequality between male and female participation rates prevails in most parts of the globe, with 88 countries in worse situation compared with a decade ago

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HE gender gap worsening in nearly half of world’s countries

Inequality between male and female participation rates prevails in most parts of the globe, with 88 countries in worse situation compared with a decade ago

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Elite university intakes ‘as imbalanced as poor nations on income’

Progress on gender equality ‘set back by lost generation’

Most universities fail to show proof of gender equality policies

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