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Recruiter and ex-Sussex chair Simon Fanshawe aims to tackle biases around gender, ethnicity and university background

Study¡¯s authors suggest women are better able to communicate the value of science to score public donations

Analysis of awards in biology and biomedical sciences between 1968 and 2017 suggests women increasingly likely to win prizes for ¡®service¡¯ over research

Portland State University says Peter Boghossian¡¯s attack on academic explorations of race and gender failed to get ethics approval

Having more women on appointment committees has dramatically cut the number of female academics getting hired, according to analysis

Men¡¯s magazine expresses contrition over slur against female students

Document circulated at annual conference of American Historical Association

However, latest data from EU suggests eastern European nations having more success in keeping gap narrow

University of Helsinki pilots aimed at eradicating unconscious bias in hiring decisions

Unfamiliarity with opposite sex may harm academic results when mixed-gender cooperation required, says study

Work published by women is more widely read by undergraduate and master¡¯s students and by junior researchers than articles written by men

¡®Proactive¡¯ female recruitment drive closes staff gender gap, but fails to keep pace with enrolments

Fifteen institutions secure bronze accreditation as Athena SWAN heads south

Joan Wallach Scott warns of a ¡®vision of the world in which men are superior to women¡¯ in final protest against CEU expulsion from Hungary

What single change to university practice would have the most positive and far-reaching consequences? Eight academics and thinkers give us their views

Female-only professorships will speed progress to gender equality in the academy, but the pushback shows how far there still is to go, says Clare Kelly

Roadblock could stall progress in appointment of more female vice-chancellors, report warns

Frustration with ¡®snail¡¯s pace¡¯ progress across continent leads Irish government to back financial sanctions against universities that miss targets

Major Ucea study finds ethnic minority staff suffer ¡®significant pay penalties¡¯ relative to white male staff with equivalent academic backgrounds

Long-time university leader is third top MSU official charged criminally with a failure to properly account for decade-long pattern of abuse by team doctor

Legal counsel describes how she was fired after pushing for investigation into misconduct at elite US institution

New regulations outlined by Trump officials would hand stronger rights in some areas to those facing sexual misconduct complaints on college campuses

Several months after college removed three professors, student lawsuit outlines years of grades and promotions tied to sexual demands

The UK¡¯s first black female history professor on universities atoning for their pasts and believing in the goodness of others

Country is on the verge of achieving its now scrapped enrolment target, years before the deadline

If women in particular must watch what they say for fear of a social media mauling, public scholarly fora will be the poorer, warns Charlotte Galpin

Sir John Kingman hints that research councils could withhold funding in cases where universities do not address unfair treatment of staff

Royal Historical Society survey also exposes crisis of overwork in discipline

Scientific excellence must mean more than ¡®how good someone is with a round-bottom flask¡¯, conference hears

Academics express anxiety about ultimate reach of proposed policy tying gender to birth

Tokyo Medical University not alone in rigging entrance exams to exclude women

Women and Equalities Committee call for UK to follow US Title IX example, accusing government, regulators and institutions of ¡®passing the buck¡¯

New rules requiring a female presence on doctoral defence panels at the University of Glasgow will push more ¡®unrewarded¡¯ academic tasks on to women, critics claim

Fear and shame deter foreigners from reporting attacks, University of Canberra study finds

Donna Strickland describes how becoming only the third woman in history to win the physics prize turned her into a ¡®rock star¡¯ overnight

Tricksters say they wanted to expose overly politicised research, but scholars are concerned about the motivation behind the sting

Male skew in overseas students conceals female slant among domestic recruits

Study finds further evidence to suggest peer review process riddled with gender and racial bias

Cards including details of support services have been designed to fit in wallets and purses

Complaints process can drag on for several years and is nearly impossible to challenge, says 1752 Group report

Carlos Moedas tells MEPs institutions should introduce allocations for female academics ¡®at some point¡¯

Completion rates improve as number of women in a programme increases, US study finds

The Teesside pro vice-chancellor discusses promoting gender balance and being diagnosed with ovarian cancer

National Science Foundation demands that universities report findings of sexual harassment involving anyone working on the projects it has financed

Senior leaders must lead the charge in changing higher education¡¯s structural disadvantages for black and minority ethnic staff and students, say Kalwant Bhopal and Sally Hunt

Efforts to prevent sexual harassment at universities advanced with new policies from top US provider of science funding and world¡¯s biggest general science society

Conservative anger at initiatives to make campuses more inclusive to minority students is misplaced, say Kevin Singer, Laura Dahl, Matthew J. Mayhew and Alyssa N. Rockenbach

The UK¡¯s new research mega-body has huge power to tackle long-standing inequalities, says its new diversity tsar Jennifer Rubin

Psychologist says that more women, minority groups and international students should be part of structures that tackle sexual misconduct

Lecturer claims that myriad online systems in academia reinforce patriarchal dominance

Study challenges the idea that it is primarily parenthood that hinders women¡¯s careers ¨C but in Germany, the picture is very different

Government accused of making universities ¡®a safer place to commit assault¡¯, but others say changes will offer better support for victims

Institutions say they don¡¯t doctor their admissions, but figures tell a different story

Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell¡¯s graduate scholarships will help students from under-represented groups

New book weighs merits of secure reporting software that alerts institutions if an alleged offender crops up more than once

Gender bias in the academy is all too real, but we should be just as wary of confirmation bias, says Terri Apter 

The winner of the Royal Society¡¯s Athena Prize talks about tackling sexual harassment and learning that scientific heroes are people, too

Ennio Vivaldi says he stands with student protesters pushing for equality on campuses

Pioneering scholar of black feminism remembered

Institutions should publish the names of lecturers found guilty of sexual misconduct, says head of National Universities Commission