Through SWAN, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering aims to bring organisational and cultural change to improve the working environment for everyone in our School - staff and students. The following links lead to reports and news articles providing background information on issues related to the question of why SWAN is important:
BBC: The Engineering Gap
BBC: What if there were more women in tech?
United Nations: UN Women launches report spotlighting gender equality in global universities
BBC: Are Universities secretly sexist?
BBC: Gender pay Gap: Trend Shows Women in NI Earn More Than Men.
BBC: Mothers' Pay Lags Far Behind Men
BBC - University wipes out gender pay gap with salary hike
The Guardian: Why aren't there more women in science?
The Times Higher Education: Does REF Motivate or Discourage Research Staff?
BBC: Education & Family - Why do women get more university places?
Women, research and universities: excellence without gender bias
BBC News - Being a Woman in Engineering
Nature - Bibliometrics: Global Gender Disparities in Science
The Guardian - How to...create a workplace that works for women
The Guardian - Sex Discrimination at Work Hits men Too
The Royal Society - A Chemical Imbalance
BBC - Call to Arms Over Sexism in Science
Nature - Sexist Attitudes: Most of us are Biased
The Guardian - Popular Science Blog is Run by a Woman
The Times Higher Education - Research Intelligence - Gender Bias Hides, Even in Open Minds
The Guardian - Why Women Leave Academia and Why Universities Should be Worried