Constraints on acceptable leadership models and access to the more respected professional realms are among the enduring challenges for women in academia. In its inaugural edition of August 1991, Campus Review ran the following quotation from then-assistant registrar for appointments ...
More »Postgraduate employment slump stabilises, gender pay gap persists
The full-time employment slump for those who have recently graduated from postgraduate degrees may have stabilised, new figures from Graduate Careers Australia (GCA) have shown, but there’s still a stark gender gap in starting salaries. GCA’s Postgraduate Destinations 2015 report ...
More »From aspiring hairdresser to student engineer
After high school, Nisha Pradhan wanted to be a hairdresser. Her male high school careers adviser thought “this was a great idea.” But when Pradhan, now a University of New South Wales fourth-year electrical engineering and commerce student, told her ...
More »NTEU launches Bluestocking Week for gender equity
“The blue stocking is the most odious character in society … she sinks wherever she was placed, like the yolk of an egg, to the bottom, and carries the filth with her.” Those are the thoughts of 18th-century English writer ...
More »The Blog Rankings: Deconstructing the architectural imbalance
Zero to 9000 unique browsers in two months suggests that the topic of Parlour – gender inequity in the world of architecture – has hit a nerve. Parlour [http://www.archiparlour.org/] is the result of research by a team lead by Dr ...
More »Poor doesn’t mean expensive
A study casts doubt on the belief that students from disadvantaged backgrounds use up more resources at university. Recent research at La Trobe University’s Equity and Student Services Division questions whether the current costs of educating low socio-economic status (SES) students are higher than for their peers. Over ...
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