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View more sharing options Shares 839 Comments 254 Sunday 8 March 2015  04.54 GMT Last modified on Monday 23 January 2017  12.16 GMT Women now outnumber men in higher education in Australia, with numbers increasing year on year. Such patterns are similar in the UK and the US, with claims often made that men are the new marginalised sex on the basis of the growing numbers of female students. But the numbers alone belie a much deeper problem of entrenched sexism. Reducing gender equity to a battle of the sexes is simplistic, crude and ultimately dangerous for both women and men. A closer analysis shows a complex picture and highlights the urgent need for higher education institutions to develop sophisticated strategies designed to combat institutional sexism and misogyny. This requires an understanding that gender equity intersects with other inequalities, such as race, ethnicity and social class, often in insidious and subtle ways. The stories you need to read, in...

View more sharing options Shares 839 Comments 254 Sunday 8 March 2015  04.54 GMT Last modified on Monday 23 January 2017  12.16 GMT Women now outnumber men in higher education in Australia, with numbers increasing year on year. Such patterns are similar in the UK and the US, with claims often made that men are the new marginalised sex on the basis of the growing numbers of female students. But the numbers alone belie a much deeper problem of entrenched sexism. Reducing gender equity to a battle of the sexes is simplistic, crude and ultimately dangerous for both women and men. A closer analysis shows a complex picture and highlights the urgent need for higher education institutions to develop sophisticated strategies designed to combat institutional sexism and misogyny. This requires an understanding that gender equity intersects with other inequalities, such as race, ethnicity and social class, often in insidious and subtle ways....