Women in Higher Education

What Women in Higher Education does

Women in Higher Education (WIHE) is a niche career and content platform that serves women working in or aspiring to positions in US and Canadian higher education. Its core product is a job board aggregating higher education employment opportunities, combined with an editorial site that publishes career advice, profiles, and opinion pieces. The audience is composed of women professionals and job seekers in academia, while the customer base consists of higher education institutions and adjacent employers (e.g., universities, research hospitals) posting open roles.

The platform is operated as a subsidiary of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE: JWY), which provides corporate, distribution, and likely back-office support. The job board and career center technology itself is delivered through Madgex Career Center Solutions, a third-party SaaS job-board platform, meaning WIHE's underlying technology stack is outsourced rather than built in-house. Editorial operations are run by a small team anchored by an editor (Autumn Arnett) and a stable of regular contributors, suggesting a low-headcount operating model. The business model is a two-sided recruitment marketplace: employers pay to post jobs (and likely to feature them) while job seekers access listings and editorial content for free, monetizing primarily through direct employer job postings and potentially sponsored or branded content given the Wiley parentage.

Name

Women in Higher Education

Legal name

John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Website

https://wihe.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Women in Higher Education (WIHE) is a niche job board and career-content platform serving women professionals in US and Canadian higher education. It operates as a subsidiary of John Wiley & Sons, uses Madgex Career Center Solutions technology, and monetizes via direct employer job postings from universities and related institutions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Higher Education Job Board

NAICS

Employment Placement Agencies (561311)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro primary industry

Career Services & Job Placement Platforms (Jobs, Recruiting, Employer Networks) (EDAFAMAM)

akta.pro secondary industry

Career Readiness & Employability Skills (Resume, Interview, Networking) (EDAMAKAG)

Keywords

• Higher education jobs
• Academic job board
• Career resources
• Job advertising
• Women professionals

Headquarters

HQ city

Hoboken

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Others

Revenue model

1. Job Advertising Services: WIHE generates revenue by charging employers to post job listings on the platform. Employers can advertise vacancies through the WIHE Career Center. Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Women in Higher Education operates a niche job board and career center platform that connects higher education employers with women candidates seeking faculty, administrative, and leadership positions in academia. The platform also delivers career advice articles, professional development resources, and email job alerts focused on equity, leadership, and career advancement for women in higher education.

Product overview

Women in Higher Education operates a unified career center platform consisting of a job board for higher education positions, career resources and advice articles, employer recruitment advertising services, and job alert notifications. The platform is powered by Madgex Career Center Solutions and is operated by Wiley (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.). The service serves women in higher education by providing practical career resources, job listings across Executive Administration, Administration, Educators and Leadership, and Other categories, and employer advertising solutions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• WIHE Job Board Platform A job board and career center platform enabling women in higher education to search, save, and apply for faculty, administrative, and leadership positions at colleges and universities across North America. Listings are organized by sector, location, salary band, and employer type, with filters for Executive Administration, Administration, Educators and Leadership, and Other categories.
• Career Resources and Articles Editorial library of career advice articles, professional development insights, and feature stories focused on women in higher education leadership, work-life balance, career transitions, and gender equity in academia.
• Employer Recruitment Services Recruitment advertising platform allowing higher education institutions to post job listings and reach qualified women candidates, accessed via a dedicated employer portal and supported by sales contacts at [email protected] and 1-201-399-2194. Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed.
• Job Alerts Email-based job alert system allowing job seekers to receive notifications when new positions matching their criteria are posted, complemented by sector-specific RSS feeds for Executive Administration, Administration, Educators and Leadership, and Other categories.

Named customers8 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• John Wiley & Sons, Inc.coreOthersWiley is the parent company and owner of Women in Higher Education. Wiley is a global leader in research, education, and professional development. The WIHE platform is part of Wiley's talent solutions portfolio.
• Madgex Career Center SolutionscoreTechnology or IntegrationMadgex provides the career center platform technology powering the WIHE job board. The platform is powered by Madgex Career Center Solutions as noted in the footer of the website.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Emerging players

• PowerToFly: A women-focused job platform and talent community, primarily in tech and STEM. Shares WIHE's gender-targeted job board model and diversity-employer thesis but serves corporate rather than higher-ed employers.
• Elpha: A professional community and job-matching platform for women. Comparable to WIHE in building a women-targeted career destination, though focused on tech/early-career rather than academic roles.

Direct peers

• Inside Higher Ed Careers: The job board of Inside Higher Ed, a major higher-ed news outlet. Competes with WIHE for the same faculty and administrative employer dollars, and bundles editorial content alongside listings much as WIHE does.
• Diverse: Issues In Higher Education: A higher-ed publication focused on diversity, equity, and underrepresented groups in academia. Most analogous to WIHE in combining editorial coverage of equity issues with higher-ed recruitment, directly competing for the same mission-driven employer audience.
• The Chronicle of Higher Education (Jobs): The Chronicle's classified and recruitment section is a flagship higher-ed hiring destination used by elite institutions. Overlaps directly with WIHE's enterprise advertiser roster (Stanford, Cornell, etc.).
• AcademicJobs.org: Academic-focused job board covering faculty and research positions globally. Comparable to WIHE in employer base and listing categories but operates at larger geographic scope (global vs. North America).
• JobElephant: A job-distribution and recruitment advertising platform that syndicates higher-ed listings to niche boards. Competes with WIHE for employer ad budgets via different mechanism (paid syndication vs. dedicated niche audience).
• HigherEdJobs: One of the largest job boards focused exclusively on higher education, listing thousands of faculty and administrative openings. Directly comparable to WIHE in serving the same employer base (colleges and universities) but without WIHE's women-only targeting.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/womeninhighered
• Facebookfacebook.com/womeninhighered
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/women-in-higher-education

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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