In an analysis of more than 673,000 medical school graduates, a new study has found White men receive more promotions in academic medicine than women, even though Asian, Black, and White women are more likely to receive entry-level medical school appointments.
A faculty member for the past three decades, Dr. Boor has led graduate studies at Cornell University for the past four years. She will step down from her role on June 30.
New data from the Council on Graduate Schools women shows women were only 29.3 percent of all first-time graduate students in engineering. Women were 33.6 percent of all first-time graduate students in mathematics and computer science, down from 34.6 percent in 2019.
Men still outnumber women in master's and doctoral degree programs as well as in postdoctoral researchers in STEM and health disciplines at U.S. academic institutions. But new data from the National Science Foundation shows that women are closing the gender gap.
Women were 76.7 percent of all individuals who were awarded master's degrees in educational fields and nearly 80 percent of all master's degree recipients in health science fields. In contrast, women received only 27.3 percent of all master's degrees in engineering and were just over a third of all recipients in mathematics and computer sciences.
In 2019, women made up less than 39 percent of all graduate student enrollments in engineering, mathematics and computer science, and physical sciences. Women were more than 75 percent of all graduate students in education, the health sciences, and public administration.
Dr. Crouch has been an associate professor of history and director of American studies at Bard College since 2014. Her research focuses on the histories of the early modern Atlantic, comparative slavery, American material culture, and Native American and Indigenous studies.
For the past nine years, Dr. Garrell has served as vice provost of the Graduate Division at the University of California, Los Angeles. She joined the faculty at UCLA in 1991 and serves as professor of chemistry and professor of bioengineering.
Sally Pratt is a professor and vice provost for graduate programs at the University of Southern California. She has served on the faculty there for 40 years. A professor of Slavic languages and literatures, she came to the university in 1980 as the Russian language program coordinator.
The endowment fund was made possible by a gift from Jeanne Guillemin, an expert on the use of biological and chemical weapons who has bee a research associate and senior advisor at the MIT Security Studies Program since 2006.
In 2018, there were 1,081,528 women students in graduate degree programs in the United States. They made up 57 percent of all enrollments. Women made up 60 percent of the enrollments in master's degree programs and 52 percent of all those enrolled in doctoral programs.
