Workplace Equality Still A Distant Horizon For UC, Data Shows

The NZR looks at UC's raw employment data for 2020 to 2024 and asks whether general equality has been achieved amongst the university's academic staff, general staff and managers.

Data released by UC shows the gap between female and male academics is closing and a generally evenly split across the university at the managerial level. However, digging deeper into the data, male academic staff still outnumber their female brethren in the Engineering, Business, and Science fields. Education saw the opposite with women making up 80 percent or more of academics.

Source: UC website

Female Academic Closing In On 50%

As a whole, male academics have outnumbered their female counterparts over the past 4 years.

This year, UC’s academic staffing pool snuck over the 1,000-person mark, an increase of 16.51 percent when compared to the 2020 figure.

During that period, women academic numbers have slowly moved towards the fifty percent threshold.

In 2020, they accounted 40 percent. In 2021, 41 percent. In 2022, 43 percent. And 43.41 percent this year.

Male numbers have increased by 29.2 percent, moving from 339 in 2020 to 438 this current year. By contrast, female worker numbers have past 500, growing from 498 to 562 for the same period.

For the raw data, see below