A gender gap still persists in the science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine (STEMM) industry, with women accounting for only one quarter of the workforce. In Australian universities in particular, approximately 20 per cent of senior researchers are female.
But UTS is bucking the trend, with women accounting for 36 per cent of all associate professors and 31 per cent of professors.
Programs like UTS’s Research Equity Initiative and the Australian SAGE Athena SWAN pilot are helping UTS lead the march towards gender equity in research.
"Overall, women in STEMM are still under-represented and under-recognised," says Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor Glenn Wightwick.
Read the full article on the UTS: Newsroom: Addressing sySTEMMic failures