news 7 Gender equality progress rewarded
The University of Southampton’s aspirations to improve fairness and equality for women have been rewarded through the Athena SWAN (Scientific Women’s Academic Network) Charter administered by the Equality Challenge Unit.
Not only did Southampton, a founding signatory of the Athena SWAN Charter, achieve the renewal of its bronze award, the University also received its first departmental awards in recognition of building a solid foundation for eliminating gender bias and the development of an inclusive culture. The departments recognised include chemistry, electronics and computer science, the faculty of medicine and ocean & earth science.
The Charter’s prime focus is on women’s careers in STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths and Medicine) disciplines.
Oceanographer and associate dean for the faculty of natural and environmental sciences, Professor Rachel Mills, said: “We are beginning to move many of the barriers for women in academia. Not everyone is the same. Some may have had a career break to start a family, worked at a different pace, worked in a different way, or maybe have come and gone from an academic standard track and we are getting better at judging that.
From left: Doga Kuyucu, Electronics and Computer Science women co-chair; Alexander Melhuish, diversity project officer, Athena SWAN; Martin Solan, reader, Ocean & Earth Science; Su White, senior lecturer, Electronics and Computer Science; Professor Dianna Eccles (Medicine Athena SWAN chair)
“The bronze award is given very much for aspiration and the silver is given for delivery. We’re now moving from the aspiration stage, towards delivery.“
University vice-chancellor, Professor Don Nutbeam, added: “During the past three years,
a whole range of activities, initiatives, groups and committees have helped to define a solid bedrock in support of staff equality. Pivotal to this has been valuing and nurturing existing academic expertise, alongside a commitment to recruiting the best of global talent.“
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