Previous Nobel Prize winners, including Albert Einstein and Hermann Muller, are acknowledged for making some of the most historic contributions in their respective scientific fields, be that physics, chemistry, medicine and physiology. There have been female Nobel winners too, such ...
More »Gender gap persists in earnings, HECS-HELP debts and study areas: new report
New research has concluded that university-educated females in Australia have accrued a bigger HECS-HELP debt and also earn less than their male counterparts. The findings appear in Futurity Investment Group’s Impact of University Debt Report, which surveyed more than 1000 ...
More »UNSW tackles gender imbalance
The University of New South Wales aims to smash gender imbalance in engineering by bringing the number of females enrolled in the degree up to 30 per cent by 2020. As part of the initiative, more than 100 girls from ...
More »ABS reveals better-educated gender
The education gap between men and women continues to widen, new ABS statistics have confirmed. The bureau's May 2017 Survey of Education and Work found women are out-learning men at higher rates than ever. In terms of degree attainment, 35 per ...
More »Deakin and UniMelb have some STEM suggestions
If Harry Styles says it, it must be true. "How can you say young girls don't get it? They're our future," he told Rolling Stone magazine earlier this year. The Invergowrie Foundation - a charitable trust aimed at advancing girls' ...
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