Career Advancement and Gender Equity in Academia

Beyond Gender Schemas: Improving the Advancement of Women in Academia

Why are so few women at the top of their profession, whatever the profession is? After all, the data show that progress has been made: men and women make roughly equal starting salaries at similar ranks. So is there a problem? Yes, not one but two. The data also show that: 1. a problem remains: advancement is slower for women than for men; as careers progress, even controlling for a variety of ...

Gender and visible minority status: Career advancement in the Canadian information and communications technology sector

In spite of the economic downturn, demographic factors are expected to continue to produce a labour shortage particularly in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector. In Canada, the sector has signaled that critical skills shortages exist in certain areas although the extent of these shortages is the subject of much debate. While economists have suggested that by the year 2011...

Gender inequality in career advancement for females in Japanese academic surgery.

During the past three decades, the participation of women in medicine has increased from 10.6% (1986) to 19.7% (2012) in Japan. However, women continue to be underrepresented in the top tiers of academic medicine. We highlight gender inequality and discuss the difficulties faced by female surgeons in Japanese academic surgery. Using anonymous and aggregate employment data of medical doctors at ...

Gender Equality and Equity

Gender-Oriented Education: A New Approach to Gender Equity

The twentieth century can be considered the century of gender approaches. From extremist and one-sided movements to moderate and neutral schools of thought about gender, which have surrounded the last century and all of them had originated in achieving gender justice, but each has taken a different approach as a different definition of equity. The curriculum is no exception to this rule. The pu...