Universities are keen to work on gender equity in science

The Science in Australia Gender Equity pilot programme is expanding. SAGE uses the UK Athena SWAN evaluation and accreditation framework to assess institutions improvement on gender equity policies and practises. SAGE is run by the Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.

The new participants are the Australian Institute of Marine Science, Murdoch University, Geoscience Australia and the University of Adelaide. There are now 32 universities in the assessment programme plus six publicly funded research agencies. There are also just six medical research institutes.

The new members will be welcomed at the SAGE conference in Brisbane this morning.