"As a woman our complaints are often not taken seriously without some serious 'evidence', and when we present this we are often asked 'well why didn't you say something at the time'?"

"Our Research Institute, in a profession that's more than 95% female, is headed by two men who get to decide the entire research direction, having never actually worked in the profession."

"Australian academia promotes people who get grants, and publish- this tends to be men as academia respects and rewards the more traditionally masculine research areas and methods (science and positivism)."

"A male colleague who is senior to me, jokingly points to female colleagues in a meeting when a form needs to be completed. 'That's your job', he says, even though he and my female colleague are both sharing the responsibility of a project.”

"Older women like myself are asked when they will retire, but men don't get similar pressures, even if they are significantly older than I am."

"If a woman in a mixed gender meeting starts to make coffee or sort out housekeeping, only the other women will offer to help, while the men get on with talking 'business'."

"I’m too busy doing the job to blow my own trumpet and it seems this is what is rewarded."

"A highly prominent scientist told a group of us at an ECR workshop, 'If you want to succeed as a female/mother in academia, suck it up and do the work like a man'."

"As a woman academic in a male dominated discipline (construction), I have also been compared to my male colleagues who win favor by having beers with male students down at the pub and get great Student Feedback Surveys because they're 'one of the boys'."

"Women who reach senior roles often do so because they have made themselves in the mold of men."

"A professor didn't bother learning my name despite teaching in the same subject as me over multiple semesters and referred to me as "the blonde girl" even though I'm in my late 30s."

"I have a male colleague who is a bully in my area. I am not telling anyone how I feel because I have been told I will look weak and like a whinger.”