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Men and women in academia report different lockdown perks

HE staff find adapting to remote working ‘relatively easy’, with gender differences in lockdown advantages

Men are more likely to agree that remote working during the pandemic has given them time to focus on their teaching and research work, while women feel that remote working has allowed them to access more career development opportunities.

According to a report by the membership body Advance HE, although men and women were both “generally positive” about their experiences of adapting to online working, men were more likely to say they found it easier to adapt than women and that remote working had “facilitated their research and teaching engagement”.

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