{"id":2461,"date":"2016-03-04T15:43:55","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T15:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=2461"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:59","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:59","slug":"women-still-under-represented-in-uk-he-management-positions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2016\/03\/04\/women-still-under-represented-in-uk-he-management-positions\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Women still under-represented in UK HE management positions&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">The latest report from the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.women-count.org\/news_and_events\/7\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">non profit organisation Women Count<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"> indexes the representation of women as governors, Chairs and Vice-Chancellors in each of the 166 HEIs in the UK that are publicly funded.\u00a0 It finds that although improvements have occurred since 2013, women only hold 28% of Chancellor roles.\u00a0 Men are 78% of all Vice-Chancellors or Principals.\u00a0 Women have increased their share of <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">these roles from 17% to 22% since the last report.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Also this week<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.assaf.org.za\/ASSAf%20news\/ASSAF_IAP%20Report%20Final.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">another report <span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'\">conducted by the Academy of Science of South Africa<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"> women were found to be under represented in key scientific academic bodies in 69 nations.\u00a0 Britain did<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">particularly poorly.\u00a0 In the UK, 6% of the Royal Society\u2019s 1,419 members were women in 2013-14.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest report from the\u00a0non 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.\u00a0 It finds that although improvements have occurred since 2013, women only hold 28% of Chancellor roles.\u00a0 Men are 78% of all Vice-Chancellors or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,6,7,10,11,12,13,15,9],"tags":[52,183,65,239,93,99],"class_list":["post-2461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminology","category-economics","category-education","category-finance","category-management","category-marketing","category-media-and-communication","category-politics","category-sociology","category-labour-market-studies","tag-feminism","tag-higher-education","tag-labour-market","tag-management","tag-united-kingdom","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2462,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461\/revisions\/2462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}