‘Women still under-represented in UK HE management positions’

The latest report from the non profit organisation Women Count indexes the representation of women as governors, Chairs and Vice-Chancellors in each of the 166 HEIs in the UK that are publicly funded.  It finds that although improvements have occurred since 2013, women only hold 28% of Chancellor roles.  Men are 78% of all Vice-Chancellors or Principals.  Women have increased their share of these roles from 17% to 22% since the last report.

Also this week another report conducted by the Academy of Science of South Africa women were found to be under represented in key scientific academic bodies in 69 nations.  Britain did particularly poorly.  In the UK, 6% of the Royal Society’s 1,419 members were women in 2013-14.