LSE study calls for gender quotas to place women in positions of power
Guardian, 13 October 2015
Equality badges, Athena SWAN and what university departments are doing wrong
Equality badges, Athena SWAN and what university departments are doing wrong
Soapbox Science, 12 September 2014
Excellent tips from a Tom Welton of Imperial talk on how to make a Chemistry Department AS Gold
Structured Procrastination
Online Students Give Instructors Higher Marks If They Think Instructors Are Men
Gender inequality in science
Expectations of brilliance underlie gender distributions across academic disciplines
Leslie et al, Science (2015) 347, 262-265
and comment by Andrew M Penner in same issue:
Sheryl Sandberg: Why we have too few women leaders
Nepotism and sexism in peer-review
Nepotism and sexism in peer-review
Christine Wennerås & Agnes Wold
Nature 387, 341 – 343 (22 May 1997); doi:10.1038/387341a0
In the first-ever analysis of peer-review scores for postdoctoral fellowship applications, the system is revealed as being riddled with prejudice. The policy of secrecy in evaluation must be abandoned.
Science: It’s a Girl Thing!
The bleak future of the Irish university
The bleak future of the Irish university
The Irish Times – Tuesday, May 1, 2012
TOM GARVIN , emeritus professor at University College Dublin
Extracted from Degrees of Nonsense: The Demise of the University in Ireland, edited by Dr Brendan Walsh of DCU (Glasnevin Publishing)
Does gender matter?
Ben A. Barres
Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Neurobiology
Nature (2006) 442, 133. doi: 10.1038/442133a