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The International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU)

  • IARU COURSES 2025

    IARU COURSES 2025

    View this year's exciting range of courses at IARU universities.

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  • IARU GLOBAL EDUCATION INITIATIVES

    IARU GLOBAL EDUCATION INITIATIVES

    International learning, research and working experiences for students

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  • IARU RESEARCH COLLABORATION

    IARU RESEARCH COLLABORATION

    For research in areas of central importance

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  • IARU SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVE

    IARU SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVE

    Developing best practices strategies in environmental management

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  • IARU INSTITUTIONAL JOINT WORKING

    IARU INSTITUTIONAL JOINT WORKING

    Exchange of knowledge and best practices for university professionals

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  • Early-Career Collaboration Grants 2024

    Early-Career Collaboration Grants 2024

    We are delighted to announce that applications are now open for IARU's Early-Career Collaboration Grants.

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  • Early-Career Collaboration Grants 2024

Women and Men in Globalizing Universities

Gender Group

The IARU Gender Group focuses on gender equality, discussing initiatives at IARU member institutions and relevant research to inform institutional practices. The group has organized research projects to inform group discussions and member initiatives. The group meets annually at a member campus and holds at least on virtual meeting during the year.   

  • Workshops
  • Gender Attainment Gap Report
  • Implicit Bias Report
  • Workshops

    Gender Group (Workshop X)
    22-24 August, University of Copenhagen

    Gender Group (Virtual convening II)
    3 March 2022, via Zoom, hosted by Yale University

    Gender Group (Virtual convening I)
    24 June 2021, via Zoom, hosted by Yale University

    Gender Group (Workshop IX)
    25-27 September 2019, University of Cape Town

    Women and Men in Globalizing Universities (Workshop VIII)
    12-14 September 2018, Yale University

    Women and Men in Globalizing Universities (Workshop VII)
    27-28 March 2017, Australian National University

    Women and Men in Globalizing Universities (Workshop VI)
    9-10 July 2016, Peking University

    Women and Men in Globalizing Universities (Workshop V)
    29-30 June 2015, University of Oxford

    Women and Men in Globalizing Universities (Workshop IV)
    28 & 29 October 2013, ETH Zurich

    Women and Men in Globalizing Universities (Workshop III)
    16 & 17 March 2012, UTokyo

    Women and Men in the Globalizing University (Workshop II)
    Demographics and Best Practices for Advancing Women in Academy; and Citizenship, the University, and the Globalizing World
    21 April 2008, Yale

    Understanding Women in Universities Around the Globe (Workshop I)
    8 September 2006, Cambridge

  • Gender Attainment Gap Report

    Gender Attainment Gaps. Literature Review and Empirical Evidence from IARU Universities, December 2018
  • Implicit Bias Report

    2018 IARU Implicit Bias Report, September 2018

Outcomes of the comparative data analysis

  • The percent of women decreases the higher the status on the academic ladder.

  • The greater the number of faculty in PTEM (physical science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields, the smaller the total percent of women on the faculty.

  • Improvement in the percent women at each step on the academic ladder is steady, but slow.

  • Globalization is evident in the large number of international postdocs and assistant professors.

 Plan of action

  • IARU member institutions plan to leverage their participation in the group by working at their home institution to gather and analyze data, and to implement evidence-based initiatives aimed at improving the rate of reaching gender equality. Each President is asked to provide sufficient resources to support such activity. 
     
  • The IARU group as a whole seeks to provide global leadership by analyzing comparative data and making recommendations based on an understanding of the data. The group works on the regular collection, reporting, and comparison of data. It will also collect narratives of the academic career life course of men and women in order to probe similarities and differences among the various IARU institutional structures.

Explanatory framework

The Committee discussed how to increase the rate of progress towards gender equality. It offers the observations below as a framework for further research and possible action.

  1. The present disciplinary and sub-disciplinary divisions tend to favor male academics. How might the participation of women change if more positions were allocated in multi- and interdisciplinary areas, moving beyond the renewal of existing disciplines? 

  2. Recruitment and advancement processes have resulted in a large percentage of male academics. How might modification of these processes change outcomes?

  3. Women academics have a different set of time commitments and constraints compared with men. How might distribution of resources provide for greater gender equality?

  4. International mobility of scholars is increasing rapidly. How does globalization effect gender equality at universities?

  5. In some of the IARU institutions we observe female students seem to underperform with respect to their educational attainment. Where and why is this the case and by which measures could the underachievement be overcome?

  6. Which are the criteria by which one should measure whether an institutions gender oriented policy is successful or not? And even broader: What should be understood by “success” of universities?

  7. Which measures seem to be most successful to promote a. the number of girls in science and b. the number of women on full professorships?

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IARU Universities

  • International Alliance of Research Universities
  • Australian National University
  • ETH Zurich
  • National University of Singapore
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • University of Cambridge
  • University of Cape Town
  • The University of Copenhagen
  • University of Oxford
  • Peking University
  • The University of Tokyo
  • Yale University
  • International Alliance of Research Universities

    The International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU) is a collaboration between 11 of the world's leading research-intensive universities. The members are: the Australian National University, ETH Zurich, National University of Singapore, Peking University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Cambridge, University of Cape Town, University of Copenhagen, University of Oxford, the University of Tokyo and Yale University.
  • Australian National University

    The Australian National University (ANU) is one of the world’s leading centres for research and education. Founded by the Australian Government in 1946 to apply the best minds to the biggest questions and advance Australia’s international standing, ANU has grown to become one of the world’s leading research-intensive centres of higher learning. Research is central to everything ANU does, shaping our educational experience and our contribution to national and international policy debate. ANU researchers are a resource for Australia, investigating the most important questions facing society.

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  • ETH Zurich

    ETH Zurich is one of the leading international universities for technology and the natural sciences. It is well-known for its excellent education, ground-breaking fundamental research and for implementing its results directly into practice. Founded in 1855, to researchers, it today offers an inspiring working environment, to students, a comprehensive education.

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  • National University of Singapore

    Founded in 1905, from modest beginnings as a medical college with 23 students, the National University of Singapore (NUS) now spans three campuses, enrolls 38,000 students from more than 100 countries in many critical fields of study, and forges partnerships around the world.

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  • University of California, Berkeley

    Founded in 1868, University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) is a premier public university that prides itself as a wellspring of innovation. With its 130 academic departments and more than 80 inter-disciplinary research units divided into 14 colleges and schools, UC Berkeley provides a diverse and enriching environment for education and research.

    UC Berkeley's Chancellor, Prof. Carol Christ, is the current IARU chairperson from 2017 to 2018.

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  • University of Cambridge

    Founded in 1209, the University of Cambridge comprises 31 autonomous Colleges, which admit undergraduates, and 150 departments, faculties and institutions. The mission of the University is to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning and research at the highest international levels of excellence.

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  • University of Cape Town

    Founded in 1829, the University of Cape Town (UCT) has a proud tradition of academic excellence, consistently ranked as the leading university in Africa (QS, THE, Shanghai-JT rankings). UCT has 28,000 students, a third of whom are postgraduates and a fifth from other countries. UCT aims to be the premier academic meeting point between Africa and the rest of the world.

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  • The University of Copenhagen

    Founded in 1479, University of Copenhagen (UCPH) is a leading European university that is distinguished for its diversity in academic environment and scientific approaches. Given its encouragement of diversity and excellence in research, UCPH brings a spirit of intellectual engagement in its interaction with the Alliance.

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  • University of Oxford

    Founded in 1096 (est.), University of Oxford has the accolade of being the first university in the English-speaking world, with an international reputation for excellence in teaching and research. Oxford is well known for its tutorial teaching and its strong college communities that give students the opportunity to work directly with leading professors from the first day of their courses.

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  • Peking University

    Founded in 1898, Peking University (PKU) is a teaching and research university which embraces diversity ranging from the study of sciences to humanities to management. The commitment to intellectual freedom of thought has positioned PKU as a progressive center that has produced many modern Chinese thinkers and as an influential actor in the modernization of China.

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  • The University of Tokyo

    Founded in 1877, the University of Tokyo (UTokyo) is a prestigious leading university that provides a full spectrum of academic activities which allows students to develop intellectual depth while acquiring professional skills. The spirit of perseverance towards the creation of a global research and education network distinguishes UTokyo from its peers.

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  • Yale University

    Founded in 1701, Yale University is located in New Haven, Connecticut (USA) and consists of the Yale College, the four-year undergraduate school, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the professional schools (Architecture, Art, Divinity, Drama, Engineering and Applied Science, Forestry and Environmental Studies, Law, Management, Medicine, Music, Nursing and Public Health).

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