What are the barriers limiting women’s access to senior academic posts and the top decision-making positions? What strategies need to be implemented to address both direct and indirect discrimination in higher education institutions?
IFUW and its national affiliates are organizing a series of one-day colloquia bringing together women in higher education leadership positions to discuss the situation in their respective countries. The meetings will be patterned on a successful colloquium on “Female Leadership in Higher Education: Overcoming the Barriers – Real or Imagined” organized by the British Federation of Women Graduates in May 2011.
The findings from the different colloquia will be compiled in a special report to be published in April 2013.
Related Meetings and Resources
Call for Papers – Critical Women: Women as Agents of Change through Higher Education
The Association of Commonwealth Universities and the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka are organizing a conference on “Critical Women: Women as Agents of Change through Higher Education”, in Colombo Sri Lanka 6 – 8 March 2012.
The conference will explore from an essentially gendered perspective a number of key equity, educational and development issues. Through its three sub-themes – Leadership, Economic Development and Research – the conference will endeavour to show that women have both responsibilities and rights to advance their careers and realise their capacity to effect positive change not only within their institutions but also, and even more importantly, within society itself. It will also show how universities “in their curricula, appointments, practices and partnerships, can take the lead in transforming perceptions about, and overcoming discrimination against, women”. more »
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Prof. Elaine Thomas addressing 2011 BFWG Colloquium
