Overview
The University is committed to the full and equal participation of women in academic life, leadership and every field of study.
The University pursues this goal across its teaching, its scientific research, its campus operations and its service to the community. The sections below set out how it delivers the goal, the activities held during the year, the research its academics published, and the policies that underpin its commitment.
How the University delivers this goal
- Applies a published policy of non-discrimination and equal access for women.
- Provides a maternity-support policy that enables women's continued participation in study and work.
- Runs women's access, mentoring and scholarship schemes.
- Encourages women into engineering and sciences where they remain under-represented.
- Supports women into senior academic leadership, including vice-presidential and dean-level roles.
- Protects anyone reporting discrimination from disadvantage.
Activities in 2022/23
- FUE was ranked among the top three universities in Egypt for gender equality in the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings, reflecting the near-parity of women in its student body and their presence in research and academic leadership.
Research & publications in 2022/23
During 2022/23, researchers at Future University in Egypt published 4 Scopus-indexed research outputs that contribute to this goal, across its faculties and research centre. Representative works include:
- A Machine Learning-Based Framework for the Prediction of Cervical Cancer Risk in Women. Kaushik, K. and 6 more (2022). Sustainability (Switzerland) · cited 46 times.
- Metabolic Syndrome and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in the Mixed Hypercholesterolemic Populations with Respect to Gender, Age, and Obesity in Asir, Saudi Arabia. Ahmed, A.E. and 9 more (2022). International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · cited 15 times.
- Assessment of mental wellbeing of undergraduate pharmacy students from 14 countries: The role of gender, lifestyle, health-related, and academic-related factors. Elnaem, M.H. and 18 more (2022). Frontiers in Public Health · cited 14 times.
- Gender identification using marginalised stacked denoising autoencoders on twitter data. Al-Onazi, B.B. and 7 more (2023). Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing · cited 3 times.
Policies supporting this goal
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