“Boys are far more likely than girls to dislike school, to leave their homework undone and to find any excuse to stay at home, groundbreaking new research shows …” (more)
[Grainne Cunningham, Independent, 8 May]
“… However, while the overall attainment rates are higher for women, women are still a clear minority in the areas that are in high demand. In science, technology, engineering and math – the so-called STEM fields – there is a clearly larger share of male graduates, and this tendency has actually been increasing …” (more)
[HEDDA, 6 May]
“Today’s PhD students are tomorrow’s academics, says Janine Bradbury. So are we happy with how our future’s looking? …” (more)
[Janine Bradbury, Guardian Professional, 3 May]
“There is an epidemic among female academics. It is called ‘impostor syndrome’ and it can affect even the most steely of professors …” (more)
[Elizabeth Gibney, Times Higher Education, 25 April]
“In Presumed Incompetent, through personal narratives and qualitative empirical studies, over 40 authors expose the daunting challenges faced by academic women of colour as they navigate the often hostile terrain of higher education, including hiring, promotion, tenure, and relations with students, colleagues, and administrators …” (more)
[Sin Yee Koh, Impact of Social Sciences, 21 April]
“In 2008, young women accounted for 14% of all undergraduates enrolling in computing courses at Dublin City University. Five years later, the percentage has stubbornly refused to move on and women are still in the minority …” (more)
[Marie Boran, Irish Times, 18 April]
“Earlier this month, the European Commission released its latest snapshot of the representation of women in science. The message that emerges from the oddly named report, She Figures 2012: Gender in Research and Innovation, is hardly surprising: Women are still underrepresented in science …” (more)
[Elisabeth Pain, Science Careers, 16 April]
“An academic career is challenging for anyone, yet the gender gap suggests that the current system continues to favour men. There are a number of particular factors that women face and, late last year, I realised that these challenges fall into two main categories …” (more)
[Cate Macinnis-Ng, Inside Higher Ed, 14 April]
“Fieldwork is a rite of passage for anthropologists. It gives the initiate firsthand knowledge of a culture, along with a feeling of camaraderie with colleagues, often in remote and rugged locations. But for women there is also a dark side — a risk of sexual harassment and rape, according to a survey of fieldwork experiences released today …” (more)
[John Bohannon, ScienceInsider, 13 April]
“A row has erupted over the Croke Park II deal after unions representing more than 60,000 public servants insisted the cuts ‘will force’ women out of the workforce …” (more)
[Anne-Marie Walsh, Independent, 10 April]
“Croke Park extension proposals could force female State employees to quit their jobs according to the former head of the Equality Authority Niall Crowley …” (more)
[RTÉ News, 9 April]
“Wikipedia is virtually uncontested as an instrumental conduit for global knowledge exchange. But who is creating and maintaining this knowledge and does it adequately reflect the diversity of expertise and discourse? …” (more)
[Adrianne Wadewitz, Impact of Social Sciences, 9 April]
“This is my first blog post ever! I thought I would bring to the world of international law a debate that is occurring within international relations senior faculty women. A recent very systematic study has documented a gender citation gap …” (more)
[IntLawGrrls, 8 APril]
“A motion aimed at ensuring greater female participation in the Teachers’ Union of Ireland leadership has been rejected by members. Women currently comprise 70% of the organisation’s membership, but hold just four out of 22 positions on the union’s executive …” (more)
[Peter McGuire, Irish Times, 4 April]
“Summary: a blog in which I, an increasingly privileged, white, male Professor in the UK, give advice on how to get ahead in a profession that may have already changed since I started. My advice is to be lucky and/or work until you are ill and alienate your family …” (more)
[Paul Cairney, 2 April]
“The shock, horror and plain sexist abuse that greeted the revelation that the talent and brains behind one of the world’s most popular science websites were those of a woman prompted Elise Andrew to wonder whether she had suddenly travelled back to the Dark Ages …” (more)
[Paul Gallagher, Independent, 31 March]
“A growing number of schools, districts and countries are attempting to understand the lack of interest in hard sciences among women. Jon Cartwright, writing for The Daily Telegraph, reports that in Britain only about 20% of students taking physics GCSEs are female …” (more)
[Julia Lawrence, Education News, 29 March]
“… On Wednesday, the author of the popular science blog I Fucking Love Science posted a link to her Twitter account. And her Twitter account features her name (Elise Andrew) and her photograph. To many of the fans of the blog (which has 4.2m ‘likes’ on Facebook), this was the first time that its author had been identified, and many expressed shock …” (more)
[Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed, 22 March]
“Abstract: We analyzed one decade of data collected by the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), including the mathematics and reading performance of nearly 1.5 million 15 year olds in 75 countries. Across nations, boys scored higher than girls in mathematics, but lower than girls in reading. The sex difference in reading was three times as large as in mathematics …” (more)
[Gijsbert Stoet and David Geary, PLOS ONE, 13 March]
“On Friday 8th of March I attended the ‘Why Maths Matters’ conference in University of Limerick. The day was about ‘taking stock, examining practice and developing policy’ …” (more)
[Pam O'Brien's blog, 18 March]
