The partners of METIS warmly invite you to the first annual METIS Lecture. The METIS Lecture showcases research and researchers working on the topic of equal opportunities in academia.
This year, Professor Virginia Valian will speak on the imbalanced advancement of women compared with men. Women and men have different trajectories in academia and in the professions more generally. Overall, men advance faster than women; at work and in heterosexual households, men perform less service than women do. The need to work from home exacerbates inequalities in men’s and women’s contributions and rewards. In this talk, Professor Virginia Valian uses two interlocking concepts to explain these gender differences – gender schemas and the accumulation of advantage.