Women

Daniel Handler, the children's author known as Lemony Snicket, will no longer speak at Wesleyan commencement, amid furor over his comments about women.

Most Dutch universities are missing goals for hiring increased share of female faculty members.

A departmental committee told a professor he had to teach Judith Butler in his class in the name of gender balance. He refused. As for Butler, she doesn’t want her work forced on him.

Men are far more likely to ask, study finds.

Max Planck is latest European institution to embrace hiring strategy that limits certain openings to female candidates.

Yale jumps on to the growing trend of  gender-neutral terminology for students. 

Professor who has been accused won’t be teaching this semester. President apologizes for comparing charges to fake ones published by Rolling Stone.

Paper finds that bad grades on their own aren’t enough to prompt a change of major, and neither is the environment, but problems arise when those factors compound one other.

Author discusses new book on how the value of higher education is discussed -- and how issues of gender influence that discussion.