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New Research Shows Americans Have an Implicit Bias That Favors Women
The authors investigated implicit evaluations of targets varying in race, gender, social class, and age by showing words and images to more than 5,000 test subjects who were asked to rate what they see as good or bad or positive and negative. Researchers measure not only the responses but the time it takes respondents to come to a decision. In these experiments, the largest and most consistent evaluative bias was pro-women/anti-men bias.
Pew Research Center Report Examines Gender Diversity in the Nation’s Newsrooms
The report found larger gender disparities in the beats covered by reporting journalists. For example, nearly two thirds of all reporting journalists whose primary beat was either health or education were women. But women were only 15 percent of all reporting journalists in sports and 38 percent of journalists who primarily covered science and technology.
Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars
Women in Academia Report regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections.
Online Articles of Interest to WIAReport Readers
Each week, Women in Academia Report will provide links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. Here are this week’s selections.
Patria de Lancer Julnes to Lead the American Society of Public Administration
Dr. Julnes joined the University of New Mexico in 2021 as the inaugural Rosenthal Endowed Professor of Public Administration and director of School of Public Administration. Earlier, she served as associate dean and prrofessor at the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs at Baruch College of the City University of New York.
Three Nursing Schools Announce the Appointment of New Deans
Angela Amar will be the next dean of the Rory Meyers College of Nursing at New York University. Julie McCullough has been appointed dean of the College of Nursing and Health Professions at the University of Southern Indiana and Victoria Vaughan Dickson has been selected to serve as the eleventh dean of the School of Nursing at the University of Connecticut.
Brookings Institution Study Examines the High School Gender Graduation Rate Gap
Nationwide, the gender gap in high school graduation rates is about 6 percentage points. But in every single state where data are available, boys’ high school graduation rates lag those of girls. In New Mexico, boys trailed girls by almost 9 percentage points in high school graduation, whereas in Vermont, the state with the smallest gender gap, boys were behind girls by just over 2 percentage points.
How Organizations Can Boost Retainment of Pregnant Women and New Mothers
A new study led by Samantha Paustian-Underdahl, the Mary Tilley Bessemer Associate Professor of Business Administration at Florida State University, finds that if companies and other organizations want to ensure pregnant employees and new mothers stay on their payrolls, they’d do well to offer competitive maternity benefits.
Four Universities Announce the Appointments of Women to Provost Positions
The four women appointed provosts are Sheryl A. Tucker at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Elizabeth Skompat Stetson University in DeLand, Florida, Charlene D. Gilbert at Clark Atlanta University in Georgia, and Christina Schnyders at Malone University in Canton, Ohio.
Online Articles of Interest to WIAReport Readers
Each week, Women in Academia Report will provide links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. Here are this week’s selections.
Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars
Women in Academia Report regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections.
Colleges and Universities Announce the Appointments of Six Women to Dean Positions
The new deans are Lidia Kos at the University of California, Riverside, Divya Choudhary at Indiana State University, Johanna Bond at Rutgers Law School in New Jersey, Angie Tissi-Gassoway at Amherst College in Massachusetts, Dorian Traube at Washington University in St. Louis, and Pamela J. Powell at Southern Utah University.
University of Chicago’s Ling Ma Wins Three Awards for Her Short Story Collection
Ling Ma, an assistant professor of practice in the arts at the University of Chicago, has been awarded the National Book Critics Circle fiction prize, the Story Prize, and the Windham Campbell Prize.
Four Women Who Have Been Named to Endowed Chairs at Major Universities
The four women appointed to endowed chairs are Anita Raj at the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Tulane University in New Orleans, Rhonda Y. Williams at Wayne State University in Detroit, Amy Laurel Fluker at Youngstown State University in Ohio, and Stacey Abrams at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
American Council on Education Report Documents Progress of Women Into College Presidencies
The report found that in 2022, 66.9 percent of college and university presidents were men. This is down slightly from 2016 when 69.8 percent of all presidents were men. At this rate of progress over the past six years, gender equality in college or university presidents would not occur until 2057.
Pew Research Center Study Examines Breadwinner Status in Married-Couple Families
While men remain the main breadwinner in a majority of opposite-sex marriages, the share of women who earn as much as or significantly more than their husbands has roughly tripled over the past 50 years. In 1972, the husband was the sole earner in 49 percent of married-couple families. Today, the figure is 23 percent.
Study Finds Women Faculty Are More Likely Than Men to Support Limits on Free Speech on Campus
A new analysis of data from a survey on free speech conducted by Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression found that 51 percent of women faculty reported that they could envision shouting down a speaker to prevent them from speaking on campus as being acceptable, compared to just 39 percent of male faculty.
Online Articles of Interest to WIAReport Readers
Each week, Women in Academia Report will provide links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. Here are this week’s selections.
Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars
Women in Academia Report regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections.
Colleges and Universities Announce the Appointment of Eight Women to Dean Positions
The new deans are Paula Song at Virginia Commonwealth University, Donna Riley at the University of New Mexico, Denise Taliaferro Baszile at Wayne State University in Detroit, Cathy L. Z. DuBois at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, Kim Litwack at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Lynn M. Linder at West Virginia Wesleyan College, and Viola L. Acoff at the University of Mississippi.
Can the Gender Pay Gap Be Partly Explained by a Reluctance of Women to Ask for Higher Pay?
Some observers have speculated that one explanation for the gender pay gap is that women are less likely than men to negotiate with their employers for higher pay. But a new report from the Pew Research Center finds that women are almost as likely as men to ask for a higher salary than was originally offered by a new employer.
Women Faculty Come Up Short in Tenure Appointments
The American Association of University Professors has released new data on the status of college and university faculty in the United States.
Anita Thomas Will Be the First Woman President of North Central College in Illinois
Dr. Thomas is currently the executive vice president and provost at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota. Prior to arriving at St. Catherine University in 2019, she was the founding dean of the College of Applied Behavioral Sciences at the University of Indianapolis. Earlier in her career, Dr. Thomas taught counseling psychology and school counseling at Loyola University Chicago.
Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars
Women in Academia Report regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections.
Online Articles of Interest to WIAReport Readers
Each week, Women in Academia Report will provide links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. Here are this week’s selections.
A Quartet of Women Scholars Who Are Taking on New Responsibilities in Higher Education
Taking on new duties are Anne M. Cafer at the University of Mississippi, Crystal Feimster at Yale University, Valentina A. Grasso at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, and Shana O. Kelley at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
The Labor and Working Class History Association Recognizes the Work of Wayne State University’s Elizabeth Faue
Elizabeth Faue, professor and chair of the department of history at Wayne State University in Detroit, was selected to receive the Distinguished Service Award from the Labor and Working Class History Association, an organization she helped to establish.
Six Women Who Have Been Appointed to University Dean Positions
The new deans are Clementina D. Ceria-Ulep at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Jackie Krasas at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Kristina K. Bethea Odejimi at Emory University in Atlanta, Jennifer Allen at Portland State University in Oregon, Tina Freiburger at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Yolanda Pierce at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.
New Administrative Positions in Higher Education for Nine Women
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.
Three Women Scholars Share the 2023 BBVA Ecology and Conservation Biology Frontiers of Knowledge Award
Three women scientists are sharing the 2023 Ecology and Conservation Biology Frontiers of Knowledge Award from the BBVA Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria. Three three award winners are Jeanne Altmann of Princeton University, Susan Alberts of Duke University, and Marlene Zuk of the University of Minnesota.
Three Women Scholars Who Have Been Named the Inaugural Holders of New Endowed Chairs
Claudia Swan has been named the to the Mark Steinberg Weil Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Washington University in St. Louis. Rebecca Ryals was named to the Presidential Chair in Climate Change at the University of California, Merced and Danielle Benoit was named to the Lorry Lokey Chair in the department of bioengineering at the University of Oregon.
Gender Differences in Acceptance Rates at Ivy League Institutions
The difference was the widest at Brown University. In this application cycle, 6.73 percent of male applicants were accepted to Brown, while only 4.06 percent of women were. Women were 62.6 percent of all applicants but only 50. 2 percent of accepted students and 51.8 percent of the entering class.
Study Finds That Women in STEM Disciplines in College Experience Greater Incidence of Sexual Violence
The study by scholars at Georgia State University and the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston found that women majoring in STEM disciplines that are gender balanced reported more sexual violence victimization in the form of sexual coercion, attempted sexual coercion, attempted rape, and rape compared to their peers in both gender-balanced and male-dominated non-STEM majors and in male-dominated STEM majors.
Study Finds a Major Gender Gap in Homeownership Rates Among Single Young Adults
A new report from Zillow, the online real estate marketplace, finds that the single women’s homeownership rate declined in 2022 for the first time since 2016. In 2021, the gap was only 1.8 percentage points. But in 2022, the homeownership rate for single women was 24.5 percent compared to a 33.1 percent rate for single men.
Two Women Who Will Become University Provosts
Sarah Ewing was named provost and vice president for student experience at Gannon University in Erie, Pennsylvania, and Adrea Lawrence was appointed interim provost at the University of Montana. Both women have been serving as deans at the universities where they will be provosts.
