If Academia is a Meritocratic Endeavour, Then Where Are All The Women?

Ireland“I was genuinely excited when I got my timetable this term, because it looked like one of my lecturers might be a woman. I had never had a female lecturer in that subject before. In fact, I had never had a female lecturer in most subjects before. When it turned out that the timetable was wrong and that all of my lecturers for this term are men, I was disappointed – but only mutedly so …” (more)

[Megan O’Driscoll, University Times, 17 March]

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