Staff diversity: sex and gender

Jon Tennant barred from OpenCon community after breaching code of conduct

Emma Watton and Sarah Stables share insights from their research on, and personal experience of, how job shares can help women secure senior roles and also benefit universities

Esther Duflo aims to secure hearing for ‘ideologically diverse’ discipline in era of Brexit and Trump, hoping it becomes less ‘macho’

Report also suggests that spin-outs founded and run by women receive less investment

Study says that universities need to ‘step up’ to continue progress made by funding agencies and journals

Presidential push for women’s universities accompanied by scrapping of gender action plan by regulator

Manchester president says women should focus on their strengths when applying for jobs, not worry about how they fall short compared with male predecessors

Gender-fluid academic seeks to challenge the ways in which we carve up the world

Gender equality expert says higher education sector must ‘strengthen the economic independence of researchers’ 

Gender action project also calls for increased focus on gender equality in evaluation of Horizon Europe research proposals 

Technology organisation says gender balanced intake is a sign of things to come

Research umbrella organisation puts off decision on whether to introduce ultimate sanction until more evidence is available

Social media posts by students at home and abroad push universities to address harassment and assault

Rate four times higher among women than men, and rising overall since initial 2015 survey

UUK report says progress in implementing new guidance on handling complaints has been more mixed

Universities see maternity leave as a ‘tick-box exercise’, study warns

Athene Donald tells launch of institute that universities need better data on why women drop out

Caring duties and environmental responsibility do not signify a lack of commitment to scholarship, says Danielle George

Percentage of BAME and female professors has gone up but ‘there is still a long way to go’, Advance HE report shows

Athena SWAN recognition extended to 13 more Australian institutions

Jill Liddington’s research into Anne Lister’s diaries inspired the television series Gentleman Jack. John Morgan speaks to her about making a difference locally and the lost tradition of extramural university teaching

Failure to improve diversity risks ‘marginalising the impact and credibility of universities in an increasingly diverse world’, Leru warns

University to pay $4.5 million (£3.7 million) and pursue further actions against culpable officials

Decline in female representation reported at four in 10 institutions covered by study

Former PM’s institute and Nobel laureate’s university team up to explore gender bias in leadership

Women paid significantly less than men even when they are in the same role, conference hears

Study inside French science agency shows effects of both explicit and implicit beliefs

Increasing number of female evaluators on committees could put more emphasis on long-term outcomes, says researcher

Australian team harnesses data to inject equity into conference programmes

Gap in acceptance rates for major European conferences entirely down to behaviour of male referees

Consultation options look to reduce administrative burden of flagship scheme

Three professors accused by nine women of using academic powers to press for sex

Universities urged to reconsider use of large introductory lectures

As in the UK and the US, universities face questions about whether their curricula feature enough non-white voices

Updated settlement ties racial and gender distribution to national shares of population

Marking down fellowship applicants for being unwilling to move institutions can be deeply unfair, say Trisha Greenhalgh and Ed Hawkins

Evolutionary processes are slow, but University of Oxford research shows the scheme is improving gender equality, says Pavel Ovseiko

Justine Pila describes how men co-opt women in their academic agendas

Nesta finds proportion of female AI researchers was higher in the mid-1990s – although universities fare better than tech firms

In today’s political and psychological climate, teaching some liberal arts standards has become an abyss to avoid, says Crispin Sartwell

Facilitated meetings can encourage early admissions of guilt from perpetrators and provide recognition of victims’ experiences, says Clare McGlynn

Only a quarter of biology conferences set rules on attendee behaviour and penalties for misconduct are even rarer, study finds

Study backs up earlier findings that women are less likely to ask questions at conferences, even when they are in majority – but that raising awareness of the issue can have a big impact

Survey finds that almost a fifth of LGBT+ researchers in the physical sciences have personally experienced harassment or other exclusionary behaviour

Data on more than 19,000 institutions show Europe lags behind leading anglophone sectors on female leadership

Jessica Wade tells THE summit that younger institutions can create better equality policies from scratch

Identical CVs with different names on them sent to 250 academics in experiment

Projects for tackling gender equality in Indian higher education must be extended to the whole system, says Antara Sengupta

Academics call for development of clear policies on misconduct, and lifetime bans for offenders

Judge says that salaries paid to Catherine Freyd’s colleagues reflect departmental roles and retention raises

Australian university agrees to ‘further change’ at residential colleges

The adoption of an Athena SWAN-style initiative is undermined by a failure to meaningfully consult Indigenous Peoples, say Karen Lawford and Jamie Lundine

Experiment that saw students take tests in temperatures ranging from 16ºC to 33ºC finds men appear to score highest in the cold

The new president of the Royal Economic Society on the need for economists to be more engaging and why being a woman is an advantage in the field

More needs to be done to encourage women into technology and engineering at school, say observers

New reports uncover widespread gossip, harassment, verbal abuse and ‘scientific sabotage’ in Dutch universities – with women particularly affected

University promises study of how former vice-provost’s behaviour persisted for so long

Experts debate merits of approaches including across-the-board rises for women and the longer, harder challenge of changing cultures

Emma Rees celebrates a new generation of online feminist campaigners

New policy would allow for removal of members following two-thirds vote of governing council