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Article: League exposes glass ceiling for female professors under glass celing
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 27, 1996
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Just seven out of every 100 professors in Britain are women,
according to a new book published yesterday. The book contains the
first league table showing how many women have been promoted by
each university.
At the top of the list are some of the newest universities.
Almost a third of professors at South Bank University in London and
more than a quarter at Oxford Brookes, both former polytechnics,
are female. However, some older institutions such as King's
College, London, have promoted a higher than average number of
female academics.
At the bottom of the list is the University of Manchester
Institute of Science and Technology, where not one of the 94
professors was female when the table ...