Science in Australia Gender Equity (SAGE) Forum looks to the UK to boost female participation

By Clare Colley
Updated December 3 2014 - 10:09am, first published November 26 2014 - 11:45pm

Playing into the competitive nature of academics and researchers and offering a gender equity awards system for institutions could be a game changer in addressing the low numbers and high loss rate of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), a workshop of industry leaders has heard.