Auckland Women’s Centre calls on universities to hire only female academics

Auckland Women’s Centre calls on universities to hire only female academics

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Universities should only hire women for academic roles in certain departments to address gender inequality, a women's empowerment group says. The call comes after a Dutch university rolled out a similar policy last week to combat "implicit gender bias". Auckland Women's Centre manager Leonie Morris said drastic measures, like hiring only women, were needed to achieve equality in fields like engineering and technology. "We need to have an equal number of women and men in each profession. Women need these role models at the top," she said.

Is that a reasonable goal? In every profession the number of women and men should be equal, and therefore (in professions or university departments where the numbers are not currently equal) no more men should be hired until there are an equal number of men and women? I think there are also some departments and professions where women outnumber men. So should there also be a hiring freeze in those professions until there's an equal number of men?

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