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Alors que l’Allemagne connaît une pénurie d’enseignants-chercheurs suite à l’explosion du nombre d’étudiants à l'université, un programme prévoit d’augmenter le nombre de professeurs femmes dans l’enseignement supérieur. (...) - EducPros, par Marie Luginsland, 07.03.2013
White men dominate UK professoriate. Just one in five professors at UK higher education institutions (HEIs) is female, although women comprise nearly half of other academic staff, according to a report. Black and minority ethnic (BME) researchers account for only 7% of professors, but 13% of other academics. Four times more men than women applied for professorial posts between 2008 and 2011, says The Position of Women and BME Staff in Professorial Roles in UK HEIs, released on 29 January by the University and College Union (UCU) in London and based on data from the UK Higher Education Statistics Agency. In its report, the UCU calls for universities to track recruitment and retention, create and monitor equality targets and investigate why so few women apply to be professors. - Nature 494, 139 (2013), 06 February 2013
Male scientists—especially at the upper echelons of the profession—are far more likely than women to commit misconduct. That's the bottom line of a new analysis by three microbiologists of wrongdoing in the life sciences in the United States. Ferric Fang of the University of Washington, Seattle; Joan Bennett of Rutgers University; and Arturo Casadevall of Albert Einstein College of Medicine combed through misconduct reports on 228 people released by the U.S. Office of Research Integrity (ORI) over the last 19 years. They then compared the gender balance—or imbalance, in this case—against the mix of male and female senior scientists and trainees to gauge whether misconduct was more prevalent among men. (...) - ScienceInsider, by Jennifer Couzin-Frankel on 22 January 2013
The single most important success factor for increasing gender equality and gender balance in the workplace is engagement from top leadership. (...) - by Curt Rice, January 10, 2013
It will come as news to no one that fewer women than men hold top positions at universities and research institutions, and that women are more likely to leave a career in research. This has been well documented, but concrete measures to counteract the phenomenon are still lacking. For this reason, the League of European Research Universities recently published recommendations to improve gender balance. Simone Buitendijk, Vice-Rector of the University of Leiden (Netherlands) and joint author of the paper, talks about what we know, what’s still holding us back, and, most importantly, what we can do about it. (...) - by Abby Tabor, MyScienceWork blog, 29 November 2012
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It’s no secret that women are heavily under-represented in STEM fields – science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Though the Association for Women in Science reports that 1.3 million women are employed in STEM careers, a 2009 survey by the U.S. Department of Commerce found that those women represent just 24 percent of STEM jobs – and that they earn, on average, 12 percent less than their male counterparts. A 2012 survey of publications on JSTOR, a digital archiving service, discovered that women are also unlikely to be listed as last authors of scholarly articles – especially in the biological sciences, where the rate of female last-authorship is only 16.5 percent.(...) - Soapbox Science, 06 Mar 2013
Dream jobs, 6 reasons science needs you and Profiles of women in science are three of the areas on a website launched last year by the European Commission to encourage teenage girls to consider science as a career—a website called Science: It's a girl thing! (...) - Inside Higher Ed, by Curt Rice, January 29, 2013
Research suggests women academics are more inclined to collaboration and co-authorship – if this is true, asks Karen Schucan Bird, what are the implications for REF 2014? (...) - The Guardian, by Karen Schucan Bird, Tuesday 22 January 2013
Alors que les frais universitaires ont bondi, les garçons renoncent aux études supérieures et les filles sont chaque jour plus nombreuses dans les amphis. (...) - Le Figaro, par Assma Maad, 18/12/2012
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