As hopefully, most of us are aware the University and College Union (UCU) announced 14 days of industrial action, set to take place from 20th February to 13th March. They are now in full swing. As already witnessed in November, strikes rampaged across many UK Universities, with the dispute focusing on pay and working conditions, […]
A 172-page report from Plan International titled “The State of Girls’ Rights in the UK 2019-2020” confirms that though UK girls have seen some progress in the past few years, from #MeToo to the election of the UK’s second female prime minister, there is still much work to be done. Three of the five top […]
Last week, the BBC released an eye-opening article detailing the ethnic pay gap between non-white academics and their white contemporaries. Essentially, many academics have been realising that, for equivalent jobs, they have been underpaid compared to their white co-workers. Note that in a previous BBC article, 86 per cent of responses in a survey of […]
The University of Edinburgh is a leading university in many ways. We top the tables as the largest university in Scotland, we have the largest budget surplus, the highest paid Principal and, now, one of the highest staff gender pay gaps of all the universities in Britain. While equal pay legislation has been in place […]
A BBC Breakfast business reporter recently revealed to The Sunday Times her experiences of class bias while working at the BBC. Steph McGovern, a journalist born in Middlesbrough, spoke out about the difficulties of being from a working-class background in a work environment, arguing that class is a larger source of inequality than gender. The gender […]
Hollywood rumours and conspiracies have always been a thing, but some have been more imagined than others. Take for example, ‘the velvet mafia’. During the mid-20th century this term described a network of LGB conspirators who apparently controlled Hollywood. Dare to get in their way and your career was over, or so they said. Yet […]
Female staff members of universities remain vastly underrepresented in top academic roles, command fewer permanent contracts than their male counterparts, and face an enduring pay gap, according to a report by the Equality Challenge Unit (ECU), a charity devoted to equality and diversity in higher education. The findings denote a broader trend of female academics […]