The Huge Gender Gap for Professors in British Higher Education

A new report entitled Equality in Higher Education: Statistical Report 2011 from the Equality Challenge Unit of the British government finds that 76.1 percent of all professorial staff at higher educational institutions in Britain are white males. Just 19.1 percent of all professorial staff are women.

The report also found that for all staff levels in British higher education women earned 20.3 percent less, on average, than men.