The fifth seminar in the 2013 Gender Institute Seminar Series, Women in Academia, will be presented by Dr. Allison Shaw, postdoctoral fellow working with Hanna Kokko in Ecology, Evolution and Genetics, Research School of Biology, ANU and Dr. Daniel Stanton, postdoctoral fellow working with Marilyn Ball in the Plant Sciences Division of the Research School of Biology, ANU.

The Podcast of this seminar is now available via this link.

A full text version of the article this seminar is based on is available via the link below.

Identifying the causes underlying the under-representation of women in academia is a source of ongoing concern and controversy, yet it is a critical issue in ensuring the openness and diversity of academia. Here we present a simple model of the academic career in which all gender differences in career transitions and retention are absent, which allows the effects of historical disparities to be separated from any ongoing gender differences. We apply the model to data on academics collected by the National Science Foundation (USA) over the past three decades.

Contact: For further information contact Joanna Sikora, or Martina Fechner, Gender Institute Administration, (ph) 6125 6281.

Light refreshments will be served at 5.30pm.

This event will be recorded and a podcast will be made available on this page.