The Conversation: More women are professors, but gender gaps continue to plague NZ universities
The Conversation: More women are professors, but gender gaps continue to plague NZ universities
Universities play a crucial role in achieving gender equality, but persistent disparities in leadership, pay and research opportunities continue to shape women’s careers in academia.
Globally, only 36% of senior academics are women.
In Aotearoa New Zealand, research revealed striking gender imbalances in both pay and leadership appointments across all eight universities during the period between 2002 and 2017.
All universities have since worked to address the issue and now have equity frameworks. As a group of women working at five different universities, we analysed publicly available data to assess progress.
We found universities are closing the pay gap, slowly. But men are still more likely to fill senior leadership roles in the highest pay brackets.
