Women battle ivory-tower bias
Being overlooked for promotion, racial discrimination and intimidating insitutional environments are daunting challenges for women academics. Read More
Resources
7 Ways to Earn Respect as a Leader
Are you feeling disrespected by colleagues who report to you? Do you wonder why some people naturally gain respect, while others have to command or, worse, demand it? It may be that you’re failing in one of these seven areas. Read More
Scholarly Publishing’s Gender Gap
Women cluster in certain fields, according to a study of millions of journal articles, while men get more credit. Read More
Tactics to Unleash Your Productivity
Check this video from Robin Sharma for tips on how to boost your productivity. Watch now
Why bias holds women back
In 2001, I became the first tenured female faculty member ever in Yale’s physics department. Throughout my 30 years as a physicist, being the only woman in the room has been the norm. Women fill more than half of the jobs in the U.S. economy
Eradicating poor gender and race habits in universities
Patriarchal and racist institutional culture at universities must be challenged visibly, a conference for women working in higher education has heard. When a man is being sexist, call him out on it immediately and say: ‘No, I won’t let you talk to me like that’,”
Universities remain a bastion of gender discrimination
Only a small percentage of SA’s professors are black women. The cards are stacked in men’s favour, says Professor Esther Ramani. That has to change. Read more
Mind the Gap: The place of women in higher education
The experience of women in academics is often a journey of construction and a negotiation of identities, writes Dr Machika. The traditional ‘place’ of woman in higher education was in the role of teacher or secretary. With greater access to higher education over the past
The academy must bridge the gender divide
A complex of practices exclude women in favour of men, even when the latter are mediocre. Why are there so few senior women in the academy? The excuses are well worn, if not by now downright offensive: there are not enough women academics; women