Weekly news #2

Are Universities secretly sexist?

Source: BBC News

I picked this story in particular because it gives statistics and concrete evidence that men have a better chance of getting a high end job than women do. The articles says that only 24% of university professors are women and only 18% of women working as a vice chancellor or principle. Although there is an apparent 'scheme' in place to get more women in these kinds of jobs every year, the plan is to get the number from 24% to 30%. If the system was really fair then it should be a 50/50 split give or take.

I thought this article would be relevant to the course because in class we spoke about stereotypes of girls and it led on to the majority of us having an opinion about a group of people. However these opinions could be completely wrong. There is no evidence to prove that women would be any worse at the job then the men are, so why are they still not being employed?. Probably because they think for no particular reason that women can not do the job. This is why they are now being labeled as 'potentially sexist' even though it is obvious to anyone that they are blatantly sexist.

By Lewis Jordan