THE analysis reveals progress in closing gap, but female academics still earn nearly £6K less than men. Excerpts from the article: “Female professors also lose out in the pay stakes as they are paid 5.8 per cent less than men
Female FTSE Board Report 2015
Dr Elena Doldor, Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour at QMUL’s School of Business and Management is co-author of the Female FTSE Board Report 2015. Excerpt from executive summary from The Female FTSE Board Report 2015: This year we have seen significant
NYTimes Video: The Necessity of Failure
Nancy Dubuc, chief executive of A&E Networks, speaks to Adam Bryant about lessons learned from important failures—www.nytimes.com/video/business/100000003577203/the-necessity-of-failure.html
NYTimes: Fewer Women Run Top Companies than Men Named John
This 2 March 2015 article in The Upshot section of the New York Times by Justin Wolfers shows just how much women are outnumbered by men in many important decision-making roles in the US. The article introduces the Glass Ceiling index as a
Guardian: Academics Tackling Everyday Sexism in University Life
Source: www.theguardian.com/education/2015/feb/24/sexism-women-in-university-academics-feminism Quotes: “Our universities are highly sexist institutions. Women are outnumbered and relegated to junior posts. More than 60% of academics are men, and about 80% of professors. Official statistics show that more women are on temporary contracts than
WISE@QMUL: Prof. Gina Rippon on Neurotrash, Neurosexism, and Neuronews
Prof. Gina Rippon (Aston University) will deliver a lecture entitled “Neurotrash, Neurosexism, Neuronews – their role in understanding gender differences” to take place 5pm-6pm on Wednesday, 25 February 2015, in the Fogg Lecture Theatre, free and open to all (RSVP: http://goo.gl/f5D6eG).
Guardian: Female academics face sexist bias in student evaluations
Source: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/womens-blog/2015/feb/13/female-academics-huge-sexist-bias-students Quotes: “The strength of this unconscious bias is quite astonishing – even for a relatively objective measure such as promptness, students rated a “female” professor 3.55 out of 5 and a “male” professor 4.35, despite the fact that
Schmidt’s Data Visualisations of Gendered Language in Teacher Evaluations
Source: benschmidt.org/profGender
NYTimes: Women Doing Office Housework
In a NYTimes article (6 Feb 2015), Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant write on women doing “office housework”. Quotes from the article: “Women help more but benefit less from it. … When a man offers to help, we shower him
McSweeney’s: Not Promoted Unrelated to Gender
Reasons You Were Not Promoted That are Totally Unrelated to Gender.by Homa Mojtabai. (January 27, 2015) This is a satirical piece published on the Internet Portal of McSweeney’s. “You don’t smile enough. People don’t like you.You smile too much. People