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The International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU)

Gender Group

The IARU Gender Group focuses on gender equality, discussing initiatives at IARU member institutions and relevant research to inform institutional practices. The group has organized research projects to inform group discussions and member initiatives. The group meets annually at a member campus and holds at least on virtual meeting during the year.   

  • Workshops
  • Gender Attainment Gap Report
  • Implicit Bias Report
  • Workshops

    Gender Group (Workshop X)
    22-24 August, University of Copenhagen

    Gender Group (Virtual convening II)
    3 March 2022, via Zoom, hosted by Yale University

    Gender Group (Virtual convening I)
    24 June 2021, via Zoom, hosted by Yale University

    Gender Group (Workshop IX)
    25-27 September 2019, University of Cape Town

    Women and Men in Globalizing Universities (Workshop VIII)
    12-14 September 2018, Yale University

    Women and Men in Globalizing Universities (Workshop VII)
    27-28 March 2017, Australian National University

    Women and Men in Globalizing Universities (Workshop VI)
    9-10 July 2016, Peking University

    Women and Men in Globalizing Universities (Workshop V)
    29-30 June 2015, University of Oxford

    Women and Men in Globalizing Universities (Workshop IV)
    28 & 29 October 2013, ETH Zurich

    Women and Men in Globalizing Universities (Workshop III)
    16 & 17 March 2012, UTokyo

    Women and Men in the Globalizing University (Workshop II)
    Demographics and Best Practices for Advancing Women in Academy; and Citizenship, the University, and the Globalizing World
    21 April 2008, Yale

    Understanding Women in Universities Around the Globe (Workshop I)
    8 September 2006, Cambridge

  • Gender Attainment Gap Report

    Gender Attainment Gaps. Literature Review and Empirical Evidence from IARU Universities, December 2018
  • Implicit Bias Report

    2018 IARU Implicit Bias Report, September 2018

Outcomes of the comparative data analysis

  • The percent of women decreases the higher the status on the academic ladder.

  • The greater the number of faculty in PTEM (physical science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields, the smaller the total percent of women on the faculty.

  • Improvement in the percent women at each step on the academic ladder is steady, but slow.

  • Globalization is evident in the large number of international postdocs and assistant professors.

 Plan of action

  • IARU member institutions plan to leverage their participation in the group by working at their home institution to gather and analyze data, and to implement evidence-based initiatives aimed at improving the rate of reaching gender equality. Each President is asked to provide sufficient resources to support such activity. 
     
  • The IARU group as a whole seeks to provide global leadership by analyzing comparative data and making recommendations based on an understanding of the data. The group works on the regular collection, reporting, and comparison of data. It will also collect narratives of the academic career life course of men and women in order to probe similarities and differences among the various IARU institutional structures.

Explanatory framework

The Committee discussed how to increase the rate of progress towards gender equality. It offers the observations below as a framework for further research and possible action.

  1. The present disciplinary and sub-disciplinary divisions tend to favor male academics. How might the participation of women change if more positions were allocated in multi- and interdisciplinary areas, moving beyond the renewal of existing disciplines? 

  2. Recruitment and advancement processes have resulted in a large percentage of male academics. How might modification of these processes change outcomes?

  3. Women academics have a different set of time commitments and constraints compared with men. How might distribution of resources provide for greater gender equality?

  4. International mobility of scholars is increasing rapidly. How does globalization effect gender equality at universities?

  5. In some of the IARU institutions we observe female students seem to underperform with respect to their educational attainment. Where and why is this the case and by which measures could the underachievement be overcome?

  6. Which are the criteria by which one should measure whether an institutions gender oriented policy is successful or not? And even broader: What should be understood by “success” of universities?

  7. Which measures seem to be most successful to promote a. the number of girls in science and b. the number of women on full professorships?

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Dr. Karen Anderson
Yale University

 

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