Australia: University of Adelaide advertises engineering academic positions just for women

Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2018-08-22 14:35

Article here. Excerpt:

'For the first time, the university has used a special exemption to the Equal Opportunity Act, which allows schemes to benefit a "particular disadvantaged group", to advertise only for female candidates for the positions.

The associate professor, senior lecturer and lecturer positions are in the Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, where 85 per cent of academic staff are male.

The faculty's deputy dean for performance and infrastructure Peter Ashman said they always struggled to attract women to apply for jobs.'

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Female engineers can get hired at a premium in the pvt. sector because they are scarce. Unis, if they hope to attract them, must pay at or better.

Of course you can always hire a WST prof *as* an engineering prof. Call her a professor of engineering. Then create a couple courses she can teach. The courses would have no math or physics in them. The courses would have the same content as a couple WST courses. Cross-list them. Problem solved.

Of course in so doing you discourage anyone majoring in engineering to go to that university. But so what. You have your quota met.

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Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2018-08-23 17:36