{"id":56317,"date":"2021-03-09T00:00:41","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T08:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.edu\/?p=56317"},"modified":"2021-03-08T12:29:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T20:29:41","slug":"no-change-at-the-top-for-university-leaders-as-men-outnumber-women-3-to-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/no-change-at-the-top-for-university-leaders-as-men-outnumber-women-3-to-1\/","title":{"rendered":"No change at the top for university leaders as men outnumber women 3 to 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Australian university leaders are nearly three times more likely to be a man than a woman.<\/p>\n

Of 37 public university chancellors, just 10 are women (27%) and 27 (73%) are men. It\u2019s exactly the same for vice-chancellors: 10 are women and 27 are men.<\/p>\n

Together, this means men hold 54 of the 74 top jobs in Australian higher education.<\/p>\n

Last year presented a big opportunity for progress towards gender equity among university leaders. During 2020, vice-chancellors at 15 of Australia\u2019s 37 public universities either announced their departure from the role, or actually left. This move of 41% of the vice-chancellors in a single year provided the best opportunity for improving gender equity in living memory.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, Australian university councils, which appoint vice-chancellors, did not take up the opportunity. The gender ratio didn\u2019t change at all.<\/p>\n

To date, women have been appointed in just four of the 15 (27%) interim or ongoing replacements made. Two of these four women moved from one vice-chancellor position to another. In 11 of the 15 announced vice-chancellor replacements \u2013 73% of cases \u2013 a man won the role.<\/p>\n

Men also dominate the upper levels of Australian academia. The\u00a0latest available figures<\/a>\u00a0(from 2019) show:<\/p>\n