In its Women, Research and Universities report, the League of European Research Universities (LERU) identifies the challenges that women face in the course of their academic careers. In addition, LERU specifies four priority areas in which universities can usefully undertake gender actions: (1) leadership, vision and strategy; (2) measures for achieving structural change; (3) strategies for effective implementation of those measures and (4) steps for addressing the lack of a gender dimension in research.