{"id":3052,"date":"2017-04-11T10:21:29","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T10:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=3052"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:32","slug":"equality-challenge-unit-reveals-female-lgb-and-ethnic-minority-stemm-academics-face-disadvantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2017\/04\/11\/equality-challenge-unit-reveals-female-lgb-and-ethnic-minority-stemm-academics-face-disadvantage\/","title":{"rendered":"Equality Challenge Unit reveals Female, LGB and Ethnic Minority STEMM academics face disadvantage."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecu.ac.uk\/guidance-resources\/employment-and-careers\/asset-2016\/\">Athena Survey of Science, Engineering and Technology (ASSET) 2016 <\/a>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,\u00a0 recruitment, job and career, caring responsibilities, training and leadership. \u00a0It found that female STEMM staff were more likely to report difficulties in obtaining training and promotion and being offered more administrative tasks.\u00a0 The disadvantages also intersected with race and sexual orientation.\u00a0 Shockingly &#8216;Only 3.0% of LGB women were professors, compared with 8.8% of LGB men, 9.1% of\u00a0 heterosexual women, and 18.3% of heterosexual men.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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,\u00a0 recruitment, job and career, caring responsibilities, training and leadership. \u00a0It found that female STEMM staff were more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15,9],"tags":[143,109,54,383,65,158,93],"class_list":["post-3052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-sociology","category-labour-market-studies","tag-academia","tag-equality","tag-gay-equality","tag-gender-equality","tag-labour-market","tag-science","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052","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=3052"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3054,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052\/revisions\/3054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}