Sex & Gender

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.

Study finds that men speak twice as often as women do at colloquiums, a difference that can't be explained away by rank, speaker pool composition or women's interest in giving talks.

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.

Federal jury awards $1.165 million, finding discrimination in tenure denial by Southeastern Oklahoma State University.

Study suggests women with male partners face bias in searches for junior faculty members.

The president of Cleveland State University has been harshly criticized for defending free expression without speaking out against a flier that called for gay people to kill themselves.

University of Minnesota's revisions of its sexual harassment and assault policies draw praise and raise concerns about letting bystanders off the hook.