Over her lifetime, an average woman scientist at a New Zealand university earns about NZ$400,000 less than her male counterparts, reports […]
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Poll highlights NZer’s misconceptions – In the News
New Zealanders are pretty unaware of the state of their country, according to a new poll that has ranked New […]
Continue readingCall off the Hunt – Fiona Fox on Tim Hunt
Fiona Fox, Director of the UK Science Media Centre, writes on her blog about the recent scandal around Nobel laureate […]
Continue readingNobel laureate’s comments creates sexism storm
Nobel prize winner and UK Royal Society Fellow Tim Hunt has caused controversy by saying laboratories should be segregated along gender […]
Continue readingNZ falling behind in human rights issues
A new report authored by researchers at AUT and the University of Waikato has revealed that New Zealand’s appearances are deceiving when […]
Continue readingNZ girls not too pretty for math …
American researchers who say gender equity and other sociocultural factors — not national income, school type, or religion — determine […]
Continue readingWomen in Science: A 2011 Snapshot
The Association for Women in the Sciences, in association with Dr Belinda Bray of The University of Auckland, have produced […]
Continue reading‘Sex-biases’ in the brain
New Zealand researchers studying the complex interplay of sex hormones, behaviour and the brain have found new evidence for the […]
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