Thursday 23 June 2016

Gender pay gaps and global leaders

Posted for Liz Twigg

An interesting article from the guardian concerning the gender pay gap at universities - The university gender pay gap is down to neoliberal orthodoxy.

which mentinos this paper:

For Slow Scholarship: A Feminist Politics of Resistance through Collective Action in the Neoliberal University


Academic Bullying

Posted for Tara Woodyer

A couple of blogs concerning bullying in academic institutions

The first looks at why bullying thrives within an academic environment - Culture of cruelty.

The second looks at how some male academics are protected due to a concept of having to accept certain behaviour because of their supposed 'genius' - Protecting abusive academic men because of the 'genius' must stop.