When we look at doctoral degree awards in specific disciplines, we find that wide gender gaps persist in many fields. There are numerous STEM disciplines where women earn less than one third of all doctorates awarded.

With more than three decades of faculty and administrative experience, Dr. Gille has served as the University of North Georgia's provost and senior vice president for academic affairs since 2019. She will now serve as the university's interim president, effective November 1.

“By making managerial performance attributable, comparable, and visible, firm structure can influence who advances to the highest levels of leadership. For women managers, divisionalized structures may provide a clearer path to CEO promotion because they make accomplishments harder to overlook and easier to evaluate,” the study authors write.

The five women postdoctoral researchers honored by L'Oréal USA are Danielle Stevens at the University of California, Berkeley, Anna Romanov at MIT, Katherine Lagerstrom at Princeton University, Clarissa Do Ó at Caltech, and Tana Pottorf at Ohio State University.

While use of AI chatbots has increased among all U.S. adults over the past two years, women saw a steeper increase. Today, men and women are about equally likely to say they use AI chatbots. However, women remain more skeptical about the technology's future.

“Faculty are the lifeblood of any university, and students are the reason we do this work,” said Dr. Brown. “I look forward to listening, building trust, and working alongside this community to advance our land-grant mission through teaching, research and service.”

Dr. Washington taught psychology at the University of Pittsburgh for more than two decades. During her tenure, she helped to establish the university's Center for Minority Health.

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Hollins University, the liberal arts educational institution for women in Roanoke, Virginia, has announced the addition of several new faculty members including Eliana Chavkin, Malú Machuca Rose, Andrea Briceño Mosquera, Hannah Perkins Stark, and Gwyneth Strope.

Southern Illinois University Carbondale has announced the addition of 21 new tenured and tenure-track faculty this fall. Nine of these new faculty members are women.