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Opinion

COVID has made a bad situation worse for women academics

Pandemic has shone a glaring light on disparities old and new

| Japan
COVID-19 has added new challenges for women.   © AP

Joanna Regulska is co-chair of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities' Women in Leadership (APRU APWiL) Program and vice-provost and dean of global affairs, professor of gender, sexuality and women's studies, University of California, Davis. Sabrina Lin is co-chair, APRU APWiL, and senior adviser to president of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

COVID-19 has brought with it the blurring of our personal and professional lives. In the field of higher education, where career advancement depends so much on hitting numbers, including publication numbers, citation numbers, grants earned, students advised, women have been hit the hardest.

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