Questions tagged [gender]

My institute is creating an annual list of invited speakers and solicited suggestions from staff. It was at pains to point out that although only "n" 18% of suggestions received were female, they made up "n+1" 31% of the speakers selected to talk.…

"No pronouns please" was the first line in the academic's bio after their name—it was included in an invitation to attend their presentation. No other data. What if you slipped and used a pronoun when you were addressing them? How could you handle…

Consider the following situation. I'm talking to a friend who says "One of my friends is a student of so-and-so,", and I immediately ask, "Oh, what's his name?", before being told "'her name', actually, is Alice." How do I stop doing that? The…

Men make up the minority of students who receive undergraduate and graduate degrees. As a group men also tend to dropout of school at a greater rate than women. Men are even more in minority status as students in fields like psychology and…