Female staff ‘feel bullied’ at Imperial College
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A third of women academics at one of the country’s blue-riband universities believe that discrimination or bullying by managers has held back their careers, according to an internal report seen by the Guardian. The study, commissioned by Imperial College, London, urges management to set targets to increase the number of women in senior academic posts. It found that only two heads of department and 7.5% of professors were female. The consultants Schneider-Ross, who produced the report, say a large minority of black and Asian employees hold a similarly dim view of their prospects. Imperial College is also “legally vulnerable” to action under the disability discrimination act because it does not yet compile data about staff with disabilities. Imperial, arguably the leading UK higher education establishment outside Oxbridge, commissioned the “equality audit” to ensure it could meet conditions from the Higher Education Funding Council for England which require it to develop equal opportunities programmes. More : guardian.co.uk |