Are you looking for a good webinar to go to this week? Don't miss the annual workshop on #Inequality and #poverty! Always good food for thought. Organised by: @SanghamitraQMUL @sbmqmul @QmulCgr
Can the format of questions lead to the gender gap in mathematics? Silvia Griselda presents interesting findings that it does indeed. Does this mean we need to rethink how we test students? #genderinequality#ses21
I will be presenting my paper on ‘Pay Transparecy and the Gender Pay Gap: Evidence from Research Intensive Universities in the U.K’ at the annual Scottish Economic Association conference tomorrow. #highereducation#genderequality#ses21
The lack of oversight/accountability in the TA/module leader relationship is such a problem. I was lucky I worked with excellent MOs, who did their work and I did mine. But the power imbalance means this is not always the case and there is little recourse for TAs when abused. 🤬
Prof. Marian Baird presented findings on working arrangement and COVID in Australia. Her results showed that flexible working arrangement has increased, but there is less agreement about flexibility preferences for the future. @QMUL_CRED#covidresearch
The view on the role of women and men in society starts to take shape in childhood, and mothers are key. Another interesting article to add to the evidence by M Bertrand corroborating this : Gender in the Twenty-First Century https://t.co/utexbs9XUm
Was Benjamin Disraeli Britain’s first BAME Prime Minister? Or, why it is good that the BAME term has been scrapped. https://t.co/b0pOmr355G via @wordpressdotcom
In our new Gender Economics issue, @DanulaG, @Sevilla_Almu, and Sarah Smith present the first comprehensive picture of the status of women in UK academic economics.
Read their paper here: https://t.co/gbNNGjYKsS #EconTwitter
Read my latest paper on the impact of pay transparency on the gender pay gap in research-intensive universities in the UK. #paytransparency#GenderPayGap#genderequality
https://t.co/DSamL4g23u
Today, we are launching our latest campaign ' QMUL: Furlough our Student Staff Now'.
For the past 8 weeks, we have been asking Queen Mary University of London (@QMUL for their permission to furlough our student staff, to ensure that they have financial security. #QMFurloughNow
We’ve seen little improvement in female representation, there is still a long way to go to attain parity in most disciplines. Prof. Almudena sevilla presents the latest trends in female representation in U.K. HEI #gendergap#UKHEI
All-female-authored papers are 6.8% less likely to be accepted at economics conferences than all-male-authored papers, cond. on paper/author characteristics. Gap comes from male referees.
Gender-neutral tenure clock stopping policies actually increased the gender
gap in economics at research-intensive universities, according to a paper coming soon to AER
https://t.co/swz6geReQy