Examining Gender in HE

Examining Gender in Higher Education Network: Widening Access \ Women & Girls in STEM \ Campus Culture \ Gender Equality \ Social Justice \ Funded by @ESRC

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#WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience 🌟💊🌟👩‍🔬🌟

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

Nobel Laureate Gertrude Elion obtained her chemistry master's while working as a teacher doing research at night and weekends. Her hard work paid off. In 1988 she was awarded a #NobelPrize for developing new ways to design drugs instead of producing them from natural substances.

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Are Black women an anomaly in academia? If so, is it realistic for a Black woman to aspire to be an academic in America? - Read @SincerelyDrJae & @AyanaHardaway's practical and inspirational advice on negotiating academia as a black woman
https://t.co/XCRbx6W50L

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"Here’s a question we haven’t asked about structural sexism in academe: Do we still keep citing the scholarship of serial harassers and sexists?" - @nikkiusher raises interesting points about citation practices in the #MeToo era https://t.co/ht0EQ6lwEd

[Bibiana Rojas @biobiiana]

This, by @BeccaCalisi : "I was given terrible advice early on to view other women as adversaries and to outshine them. But the truth is, we rise by lifting each other. And it’s not specific to women." "https://t.co/IvhW37ooeB

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Another great piece in @mashable's Women Fixing STEM series 👩‍🔬👩‍💻👩‍🏫👩‍🏭👩‍🚀 this time on the women breaking down barriers for #LatinasInSTEM, with @craragon, Concha Gomez, @jazcar03, Jannie Fernandez & @JosieGoytisolo https://t.co/vgTjQ75UwW @LatinasinSTEM #WomenInSTEM

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"Women entering cohorts with no female peers are 11.9 percentage points less likely to graduate within six years than their male counterparts" - read about Valerie Bostwick & Bruce Weinberg of @OSU_Econ research on how same-sex peers benefit #WomenInSTEM https://t.co/17A0qCWMkw

[HE @HE_Analyst]

As #AccessHE2018 publish a report on the" hyper-diversity" of higher education in London by 2030, Graeme Atherton of @NEONHE @LondonHigher tells us that we should celebrate the difference of universities in the capital https://t.co/exMO6R6FCE

[WISE @thewisecampaign]

The Girls' Attitudes Survey 2018 by @girlguiding has been released, and we are thrilled to see that 43% of girls aged 7-10 enjoy ICT at school compared to 19% in 2009! https://t.co/E1Pr2u0qYR #Girlguiding #GirlsinSTEM

[500 Women Scientists @500womensci]

“For women who have made science their career, there is seemingly no scientific explanation to explain the work challenges they face solely because of their gender.” #womeninscience https://t.co/AfbToXybFT

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Threats of death, rape and other forms of violence have left a number of women researchers feeling concerned for their safety https://t.co/rpyIAIwAzK #WomenInSTEM

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"What many of us don’t realize is that aside from improving women’s general welfare, access to education is also important for our increasingly global economy" @aj_gutterman in @Forbes on why it's time to get serious about educating women around the world https://t.co/33w8lYLcJy

[FindingAda @FindingAda]

A new survey has been launched in Scotland to explore the issues faced by women in STEM in their careers, as well as what they want from employers. It's organised by @Purpose_HR, you can find more info and a link to the survey in this article https://t.co/hJ9xDE81dD

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Loving seeing all the action around the new #SheCanSTEM campaign from @AdCouncil - "When girls don’t feel encouraged and empowered in STEM, we see serious consequences not only for girls and women, but also for the future of innovation in our country”
https://t.co/9uInt8VuSf

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"Appointing more will not immediately bring thousands of new working-class freshers through the academic portals, but it would demonstrate that universities are encouraging working-class intellectual inquiry" - Melanie Reynolds of @oxford_brookes on #HigherEd's class problem

[Guardian Education @GuardianEdu]

Working-class lecturers should come out of the closet | Melanie Reynolds https://t.co/HUM8agoI4L

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Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell pledges to donate £2.3m Breakthrough prize money to help students underrepresented in physics https://t.co/nMa5jNYmR5

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"The problem with Reges’ theory of women in computing is that it disregards the voices of women in computing" 👩‍💻👩‍💻👩‍💻 Read Anna Karlin, @jcmankoff, @julieletchner & @ProfWanda's response to "women don’t want to code" https://t.co/2Y8x1xVgbT @katherinelong #WomenInTech

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There were 25 black women and 90 black men among 19,000 professors in 2016-17 https://t.co/arvBTf4S2M

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Girls are equally able at STEM-related subjects at school, but are reluctant to choose them for a career. That is linked to a lack of confidence. We're only just starting to tackle the problem https://t.co/9fFDc5bnQ8 #WomenInSTEM @daphneleprince

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"We found that, overall, children’s science books pictured males three times more often than females, reinforcing the stereotype that science is a man’s pursuit" https://t.co/F0QlCVteRz #WomenInSTEM

[Motsepe Foundation @MotsepeFoundtn]

Annie Easley was employed by the agency that eventually became NASA where she later developed energy conversion programming that is still used today for hybrid car batteries.
📸https://t.co/PDTuG9K9mc 📄https://t.co/DD8UrdZNUN

#MotsepeFoundation #WomenInSTEM