Dr Daniel Duke (@djduke.bsky.social)

‘We want women to have role models’: how Sydney University is enticing more female academics to engineering A mass recruitment campaign with roles reserved solely for women has been launched at a faculty where fewer than one in five academics are female * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast When Dr Jacqueline Thomas started her academic career in civil engineering a decade ago, she was one of just two full-time women in the school. Thomas had returned to Australia after a stint in Africa to teach a new humanitarian engineering major at the University of Sydney, the first of its kind in the country. “It was crazy, it really took me by surprise,” she said. “When I started, I just thought, ‘great, I got the job, perfect’. And then I realised.” Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jul/28/sydney-university-female-engineering-academic?CMP=aus_bsky