UCS sets 2020 goal to achieve gender balance Provost says university¡¯s size will help it hit a ¡®moral¡¯ target of 50 per cent women across its professoriate and board By Chris Parr 7 May
¡®Sexist¡¯ peer review causes storm online Sussex researcher speaks of ¡®disbelief¡¯ at comments over paper on gender bias By Holly Else 30 April
Academy of Medical Sciences¡¯ Sustain pilot targets female scientists Initial cohort of 20 funded researchers will receive tailored training and support to help stem leaks in the ¡®pipeline¡¯ to senior posts By Holly Else 16 April
Philosophy¡¯s forgotten women Project Vox aims to illuminate key female thinkers absent from the discipline¡¯s history By Jon Marcus 9 April
Time to keep score on female scientists Putting grant application and success rates under the microscope could help rectify universities¡¯ gender imbalance By Holly Else 2 April
Subjects¡¯ gender balance not reflected in grant applications Only two research councils have equal proportion of female applicants and academics By Holly Else 2 April
UCU calls for wage audits as gender pay gap endures THE analysis reveals progress in closing gap, but female academics still earn nearly ?6K less than men By Jack Grove 2 April
Pay gap worse in industry for women with PhDs Study suggest that most of the gender pay gap is ¡®caused by discrimination¡¯ By Holly Else 12 March
Gender bias ¡®rife¡¯ in history departments, says report Conditions for female academics in some university history departments ¡°smack still of the 1970s¡±, according to a new report By Holly Else 6 March
Gender split on fellowship scheme ¡®unacceptable¡¯ The Royal Society has not been able to find any reason why so few women were successful in securing awards from one of its fellowship schemes in 2014 By Holly Else 2 March
Proportion of female professors up, but still below a quarter Professors are several percentage points more likely to be women than they were a decade ago, new figures show By Jack Grove 28 February
Rate My Professors analysis suggests 'gender language bias' by students By Scott Jaschik, for 13 February
South Asian women ¡®missing out on university leadership roles¡¯ Women in higher education in South Asia are not being identified and prepared for leadership roles in universities, a new report suggests 10 February
Student¡¯s comment on female professor¡¯s clothes prompts criticism By Colleen Flaherty, for 2 February
Small victory for Cambridge women in long war over gender pay gap Women on academic contracts earn ?8,400 less than men, according to Equal Pay Review 2014, but the gap has closed by ?110 since 2012 By Holly Else 15 January
The vilification of the rights of ¡®inconvenient¡¯ women Lisa Downing examines what ¡®deviant women¡¯ such as Ayn Rand and Margaret Thatcher reveal about attitudes towards feminine ¡®nature¡¯ By Matthew Reisz 1 January
Leadership goal: more women at the top The sector would do well to consider setting a target for the proportion of women heading universities, says Simonetta?Manfredi 1 January
Engineering degrees still not appealing to women Little change in uptake over past 10 years despite millions spent on initiatives to widen participation in STEM subjects By Holly Else 11 December
Women choose shorter conference presentations: study Research shows female scholars opting for short talks over long ones, even at a gender-balanced event By Paul Jump 6 November
Suspension is a feminist issue An academic who suffered sexual harassment criticises the secrecy surrounding such cases 30 October
Higher education must address gender-related violence Universities need to ensure that those with everyday contact with young people recognise and challenge abuse, says Miriam David 23 October
Top tips for women in academic medicine A one-day conference has explored how to overcome the challenges faced by women in academic medicine By Matthew Reisz 17 October
Ambitious female scientists leave Japan to escape ¡®male domination¡¯ Women find cultural attitudes impede their career advancement, says university leader By Jack Grove 9 October
¡®Girlification¡¯ of engineering has failed, says expert Head of project to increase female numbers attacks ¡®patronising¡¯ marketing tactics By Chris Havergal 5 October
And the awards go to...men Quotas suggested as women¡¯s success rate for Royal Society fellowships falls By Holly Else 2 October
Success rate for women on Royal Society fellowship tumbles A research funder has seen success rates for women applying to one of its fellowships plummet by more than 30 per cent since 2010 By Holly Else 25 September
Industry backs women-only ad in Switzerland Business sponsorship ¡®enables¡¯ gender-specific recruitment at ?cole Polytechnique F¨¦d¨¦rale de Lausanne By Holly Else 4 September
Low publication output for female scientists Analysis suggests that male physicists and mathematicians author nearly 50 per cent more papers than female colleagues By Paul Jump 21 August
It¡¯s not raining men in my lab Researcher at University of Montreal laments the difficulty of recruiting male scientists to her all-female unit By Paul Jump 17 July
Prizewinners¡¯ labs ¡®least likely to hire women¡¯ Women are greatly underrepresented in the laboratories of the highest-achieving male biology professors in the US, a study has revealed. By Chris Parr 1 July
Quotas call for female vice-chancellors Study proposes code of practice for recruitment firms to help address inequality By Chris Parr 15 May
Women in STEM campaign aims to bridge gender gap The government has launched a campaign to attract more women into careers in science, technology, engineering and maths. By Paul Jump 8 May
Female professors less likely to have children Australian survey suggests women pay a higher career penalty when they become parents By Jack Grove 8 May
Huge inequality in maternity pay across sector Poor levels of financial support will ¡®force women to return to work too quickly¡¯ By Jack Grove 8 May
Athena SWAN review highlights scheme¡¯s benefits The Athena SWAN charter does advance gender equality in university departments that sign up to it, according to an independent review of the scheme. By Holly Else 2 May
Women in STEM ¡®sole focus¡¯ of gender imbalance debate More men must be encouraged into female-dominated areas such as nursing and teaching, says Ucas chief By David Matthews 24 April
Bryn Mawr¡¯s labs ¡®built for women¡¯ only one part of winning formula College¡¯s output of female scientists has the caught the attention of the White House By Chris Parr 17 April
Athena SWAN extended to research institutes Six publicly funded research institutes have won Athena SWAN awards for promoting good employment practices for women in science. By Holly Else 3 April
Research councils may tie funding to diversity accreditation Scepticism that proposal to encourage diversity could effectively regulate sector By Holly Else 20 March
A reading room of one¡¯s own New space at the LSE for The Women¡¯s Library is the first chapter in exploiting a vast resource By Matthew Reisz 13 March
Women trail men in securing research council grants Research Councils UK analysis reveals gender difference in success rates By Holly Else 13 March
Murray Edwards alumnae highlight challenges for women ¡®Gender-hostile¡¯ work environments still high on list of problems By Matthew Reisz 7 March
Governance gender gap still yawning Audit finds lack of women on university boards affects female v-c numbers By Jack Grove 5 December
Gender complaints: a third of women perceive unfair treatment Almost one in three senior female academics feels their institution treats staff unfairly in relation to gender, a survey has found By Elizabeth Gibney 12 September
Why are there so few female vice-chancellors? How long before search committees stop assuming that the right man for the top university job is a man? 22 August
