Issue 1, 2014
It is equally hard for a woman to become a professor today as it was 20 years ago. The often non-transperant hiring processes are in particular blamed for the non-vanishing gender gap, according to a recent study by sociologists Rickard Danell and Mikael Hjerm at Umeå University, presented in an article in the online science journal Curie, "Women are discriminated against at Swedish universities" (in Swedish).
A recent Nature news feature "Inequality quantified: Mind the gender gap" concludes that despite improvements, female scientists continue to face discrimination, unequal pay and funding disparities.
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