Equality Challenge Unit reveals Female, LGB and Ethnic Minority STEMM academics face disadvantage.

The Athena Survey of Science, Engineering and Technology (ASSET) 2016 report assessed the current experiences, expectations and perceptions of gender equality in STEMM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine) academia using criteria relating to perceptions of gender equality,  recruitment, job and career, caring responsibilities, training and leadership.  It found that female STEMM staff were more likely to report difficulties in obtaining training and promotion and being offered more administrative tasks.  The disadvantages also intersected with race and sexual orientation.  Shockingly ‘Only 3.0% of LGB women were professors, compared with 8.8% of LGB men, 9.1% of  heterosexual women, and 18.3% of heterosexual men.’