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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.
Victoria Chang of Antioch University Wins the 2023 Chowdhury Prize in Literature
The Chowdhury Prize in Literature is awarded by the department of English at the University of Southern California through the auspices of the Subir and Malini Chowdhury Foundation and in collaboration with Kenyon College and The Kenyon Review. Professor Chang is the first poet to win the award.
Survey Finds Women in Academic Earth and Space Science Face Widespread Discrimination
The researchers found that more than half of women scientists experienced identity-based discriminatory remarks. More than 40 percent of women respondents said they experienced bullying and intimidation and 43 percent said they thought their work was devalued. More than 15 percent of women said they had experienced fear for their physical safety.
A Shocking Rise in Maternal Mortality Rates in the United States
In 2021, 1,205 women died of maternal causes in the United States compared with 861 in 2020 and 754 in 2019. The maternal mortality rate for 2021 was 32.9 deaths per 100,000 live births, compared with a rate of 23.8 in 2020 and 20.1 in 2019. The maternal mortality rate in the United States is the highest among major industrialized nations.
Are Gender Quotas on Corporate Boards of Directors a Good Idea?
A new study by researchers at the University of Nevada found that women are regarded as tokens when the firm meets but does not exceed the minimum number of women required by the gender quota. When the number of women on a firm’s board exceeds the quota, perceptions of the women as tokens decreases
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 Change in Leadership at Scripps College in California
Suzanne Keen, who has served as president of Scripps College in Claremont, California, for less than a year, has resigned from her post. No explanation was given for the decision. The board of trustees appointed Amy Marcus-Newhall as acting president. She is a professor of psychology at Scripps.
Five Women Scholars Who Have Been Assigned New Duties
Taking on new roles in higher education are Jennifer Borland at Oklahoma State University, Erin Todd Bronchetti at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, Terry-Ann Jones at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Genevieve Giuliano at the University of Southern California, and Gloria DiFulvio at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Two Women Scholars Win the Bancroft Prize
The Bancroft Prize is one of the nation’s top honors in the field of American history. The prizes are awarded annually by Columbia University. This year, two of the three winners are women: Beverly Gage, a professor of U.S. history at Yale University and Kelly Lytle Hernández who holds an endowed chair in history at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Three Women Who Have Been Appointed to Endowed Chairs at State Universities
Katherine McCulloh was named to the newly created Rebecca Blank Professorship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Artha Gillis will be the inaugural holder of the RNPH Board Advisors Term Chair in Psychiatry at UCLA, and Jenna Jambeck was named the Georgia Athletic Association Distinguished Professor in Environmental Engineering at the University of Georgia.
J. Kēhaulani Kauanui Recognized for Lifetime Achievement in American Indian History
J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, a professor of American studies at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, was recognized with the American Indian History Lifetime Achievement Award, given by the Western History Association. The award honors one scholar each year who has served in the trenches on all fronts to advance Indigenous history.
Jayati Ghosh Honored by the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
Jayati Ghosh a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has been named the 2023 recipient of the Galbraith Award from the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association. The award commemorates outstanding agricultural economists who have made significant contributions to humanity.
Four Women at Swarthmore College Promoted to Associate Professor and Granted Tenure
Four women scholars were promoted to associate professor and granted tenure at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. They are: Megan Brown in history, Daniela Fera in biochemistry, Eva-Maria S. Collins in systems biology, and María Pía Olivero in economics.
A Persisting Gender Pay Gap in Teacher Compensation in the Public Schools
A new study by the Brookings Institution finds that although women make up roughly three–quarters of the teaching workforce, they make an estimated $5,000 less than men annually, Much of the gap is explained by men doing extra work – such as coaching – and being more likely to get paid for this extra work than women.
Ann Cudd Will Be the Next President of Portland State University in Oregon
Dr. Cudd has served as provost at the University of Pittsburgh since 2018. Before that she worked as the dean of arts and sciences at Boston University and as a professor and dean of undergraduate studies at the University of Kansas.
Janelle Scott to Serve as President of the American Educational Research Association
Janelle Scott is a professor and the Birgeneau Distinguished Chair in Educational Disparities in the School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Scott joins the AERA Council in 2023–2024 as president-elect. Her presidency begins at the conclusion of the association’s 2024 annual meeting.
How Colleges and Universities Can Impact the Gender Gap in the Tech Workforce
A new study by Accenture, the consulting and technology services company based in Dublin, Ireland, has issued a new report that finds that the proportion of women to men in tech roles has declined over the past 35 years. And half of all young women who go into tech drop out by the age of 35.
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.
Four Women Promoted and Granted Tenure at Colby College in Waterville, Maine
The four women promoted to associate professor and granted tenure at Colby College are Sarah Braunstein in English and creative writing, Nadia El-Shaarawi in global studies, Arisa White in English and creative writing, and Nora Youngs in mathematics.
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.
In Memoriam: Linda Bassett
Bassett joined the communications and marketing division of Rutgers University in 1989, where she worked to meet the community engagement goals of three Rutgers presidents. She retired in 2017.
Yale University Announces the Appointment of Three Women Scholars to Endowed Chairs
Lucila Ohno-Machado was named the Waldemar von Zedtwitz Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Informatics and Data Science at Yale. Nancy Banasiak was recently appointed the Wendy U. and Thomas C. Naratil Professor of Nursing and Millicent Marcus was named the Sarai Ribicoff Professor of Italian Studies.
The Gender Gap in Faculty at Canadian Universities
In 2019, almost 6 in 10 full-time university faculty members in Canada were men. One in five women faculty members surveyed disagreed or strongly disagreed that hiring was fair and equitable at their institution, compared with 12 percent of men.
Texas A&M University Study Finds Exercise Can Help Fight Breast Cancer
A new study led by researchers at Texas A&M University finds that a currently unspecified factor released during exercise suppresses signaling within breast cancer cells, which reduces tumor growth and can even kill the cancerous cells.
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.
Two American Women Are Among the Nine Winners of the Dan David Prize
The Dan David Prize is awarded by the Dan David Foundation at Tel Aviv University in Israel to up to nine early and mid-career scholars and practitioners in the historical disciplines. The honor comes with a $300,000 prize. OF this year’s nine winners, two are American women with university affiliations: Krista Goff of the University of Miami and Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers of the University of California, Berkeley.
Grants or Gifts Relating to Women in Higher Education
Here is this week’s news of grants and gifts that may be of particular interest to women in higher education.
Kimberly Bowes Wins Award for Her Two-Volume Book on Roman Peasants
Kimberly Bowes, a professor of classical studies in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, has won the 2023 Anna Marguerite McCann Award for Fieldwork Reports from the Archaeological Institute of America.
Marlene Zuk Has Received the Frontiers of Knowledge Award From the BBVA Foundation
The BBVA Foundation’s annual award recognizes world-class researchers who have made field-shaping discoveries in a broad array of disciplines of scientific knowledge, technology, humanities, and artistic creation. Professor Zuk was honored for outstanding contributions to the field of behavioral and evolutionary ecology.
Pew Research Center Report Examines the Persisting Gender Pay Gap
In 2022, American women typically earned 82 cents for every dollar earned by men. That was about the same as in 2002, when they earned 80 cents to the dollar. The slow pace at which the gender pay gap has narrowed this century contrasts sharply with the progress in the preceding two decades: In 1982, women earned just 65 cents to each dollar earned by men.
Women Underrepresented Among “Super Principal Investigators” on NIH Grant Projects
Super principal investigators are researchers who received three or more concurrent grants from the National Institutes of Health. Women were significantly underrepresented among SPIs, even after adjusting for career stage and degree. Women were 26.6 percent of all super principal investigators in 2020. They were 34 percent less likely than their male colleagues to be an SPI.
College Athletic Powerhouses Receive a Grade of F in Gender Equity in Leadership Posts
In the Fall of 2022, there were 30 women who served as president or chancellor of the 130 educational institutions that make up the Football Bowl Subdivision of Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Women were only 7.7 percent of all directors of athletics at these colleges and universities
