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Sweden to abolish gender-based affirmative action at universities

Posted on January 13, 2010 by | Comments Off on Sweden to abolish gender-based affirmative action at universities

Javno: Sweden to abolish affirmative action

The Swedish government said Tuesday it would abolish affirmative action at universities since the practice has resulted in unjust advantage.

STOCKHOLM, January 12, 2010 (AFP) – The Swedish government said Tuesday it would abolish affirmative action at universities since the practice has resulted in male students being given admissions priority for several popular programmes.

“The education system should open doors — not slam them in the face of motivated young women,” Higher Education Minister Tobias Krantz wrote in an article in Sweden’s leading daily Dagens Nyheter.

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Gender Bias at SUNY-Buffalo?

Posted on July 8, 2009 by | Comments Off on Gender Bias at SUNY-Buffalo?

Inside Higher Ed: Gender Bias at SUNY-Buffalo?

Earning tenure is never a sure thing, but Janet Shucard thought that she had done everything right.

She and her husband joined the State University of New York at Buffalo as instructors in the neurology department in 1985. By 1998, the year she entered the tenure track, she had served as associate director of the department’s division of development and behavioral neuroscience, head of the department of neurology medical psychotherapy service and assistant professor of neurology. She had published dozens of articles in prominent science journals. And she had pulled in research funding, most recently grants from the National Institutes of Health.

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