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Study Finds a Widespread Gender Gap in Self-Promotion That May Impact Hiring Decisions and Promotions
A study by Christine Exley of Harvard Business School and Judd Kessler of The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania finds that when employers are looking at self-performance reviews, they are more likely to hire those who rate themselves higher. And men tend to rate themselves higher than women.
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 Universities Join Forces to Develop an Educational Program for Women Exiting Prison
The new initiative is led by Hyunjin Seo, an associate professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Kansas and Baek-Young Choi, associate professor of computer science and electrical engineering at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Two Women Appointed to Dean Positions at Law Schools in the United States
Sean Megan Scott was named the next president and dean of the California Western School of Law in San Diego and Camille M. Davidson, a former professor and associate dean at Charlotte School of Law, will become the next dean of the Southern Illinois University School of Law. Both women will take office this coming summer.
New Book Examines the Issue of Sexual Consent on College Campuses
The research included interviews of a large group of students as part of the Sexual Health Initiative to Foster Transformation initiative at Columbia University in New York City. The research was conducted by Jennifer S. Hirsch, a professor of sociomedical sciences, and Shamus Khan, a professor of sociology at Columbia University.
Mount Holyoke College Professor Charged With Attempted Murder
Professor Hachiyanagi, a professor of art who has served on the Mount Holyoke faculty since 2004, has been accused of attacking another faculty member with a rock, a fireplace poker, and garden shears. She is being held without bail in a local jai.
University of Louisiana-Monroe Honors Long-Time Nursing Professor
Nancy Albright Lowery taught nursing at the Univesity of Louisiana-Monroe for 40 years including the first class of students at what is now the Kitty DeGree School of Nursing. She was president of the Louisiana State Board of Nursing in the 1980s.
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.
Hollins University Associate Professor and Novelist Jessie van Eerden Wins Fiction Award
Jessie van Eerden, associate professor of creative writing at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia, has been selected as the winner of the 2019 Dzanc Books Prize for Fiction. The award recognizes daring, original, and innovative writing.
Why Do Women Choose College Majors With Lower Earnings Potential Than Men?
The study by Natasha Quadlin, a sociologist at Ohio State University, found that when men and women both prioritize economic returns in their preferences for a major, men still choose majors that pay more. But even when men and women prioritized other preferences for their major – such as helping people – men still chose higher-paying majors.
In Memoriam: Mary Lowe Good, 1931-2019
Dr. Good served as dean of the College of Engineering and Technology at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock from its founding in 1999 until her retirement in June 2011. During this period she served a term as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Graduates Its 10,000th Woman
Susan K. Rainey, who earned a Seminary Studies for Student Wives certificate, was the 10,000th female graduate from Southwestern Seminary in its 111-year history.
Two Women Scholars Appointed to Endowed Chairs at Educational Institutions in Boston
Kirsten Davison will be the second holder of the Donahue and DiFelice Professor at the Boston College School of Social Work and Susan Brady was appointed to the Deloitte-Ellen Gabriel Chair for Women and Leadership at Simmons University.
Study Finds That Adding Women to Corporate Boards Leads to a Decline in Market Value
A new study by two women scholars at the INSEAD business school in Fontainebleau, France, finds that when U.S. corporations put a woman on their board of directors, they tend to show a decline in market value over the next two years. The appointments are seen as “diversity hires” by investors and not in the interest of maximizing share value.
Can Women “Have It All?” Study Looks at Gender Equality in the Workplace and Happiness at Home
A study authored by Mihaela Pintea, associate professor of economics at Florida International University in Miami, finds that society is making it more financially rewarding for women to enter the workforce, and is slowly eroding the norms that prevent them from doing it.
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.
University of Kentucky’s Amy Murrell Taylor Wins the Frederick Douglass Book Prize
The Frederick Douglass Book Prize was established in 1999 and recognizes the best book published in English on slavery, resistance or abolition. The award and a $25,000 prize are presented annually by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the Gilder Lehrman Center for Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale University.
Teresa Lozano Long Awarded the National Humanities Medal at a White House Ceremony
Teresa Lozano Long is an educator who, with her husband, has been a major benefactor of the University of Texas. The valedictorian of her high school class in Texas, Dr. Long went on to be the first Hispanic woman to earn a doctorate in health and physical education at the University of Texas at Austin.
Stanford University’s Faculty Quality of Life Survey Reveals a Gender Gap in Satisfaction Levels
Stanford’s women faculty members responded less positively than their male colleagues across all areas addressed in the survey. The greatest differences can be found in concerns related to their scholarship and their experiences with discrimination and harassment.
Kendra Scott and the University of Texas Establish the Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership Institute
Kendra Scott is a fashion designer who got her start in Austin and has created a billion-dollar company with retail stores and an extensive online business. Scott has a history of supporting women’s causes.
Haunani-Kay Trask Receives the 2019 Angela Y. Davis Prize From the American Studies Association
Professor Trask served as a tenured member of the University of Hawaiʻi faculty for more than 30 years. She was the founding director of the university’s Mānoa Center for Hawaiian Studies and a leader in the Hawaiian sovereignty movement.
Central New Mexico Community College Appoints Tracy Hartzler as Its Next President
Hartzler is currently the college’s vice president for finance and operations. She first joined the staff at the college in 2015. Hartzler is expected to take over for Katharine Winograd, who has led the Albuquerque community college for the past 12 years sometime in early 2020.
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.
Oregon State University Making Progress in Adding Women to its Engineering Faculty
Oregon State University reports that 50 of the 200 tenured or tenure-track faculty in the College of Engineering are women. According to the university, that number has more than doubled over the past five years.
In Memoriam: John Miriam Jones, 1924-2019
Dr. Jones was appointed assistant provost at the University of Notre Dame in 1972 and charged with facilitating the integration of the first 400 women students into the university.
University of Tennessee Names Its Writing Center After Alumna and Supporter Judith Herbert
Judith Herbert and her husband set up an Excellence in Writing Endowment in 2017 to support undergraduate tutoring, services to upper-division students who are not English majors, and the development of workshops for faculty across academic disciplines to discuss best practices for designing and assessing writing assignments.
Leah Barrett Appointed the First Woman President of Northeast Community College in Norfolk, Nebraska
Since 2016 Dr. Barrett has been serving as vice president for student affairs for the Northern Wyoming Community College District in Sheridan. Earlier, she was associate vice president for enrollment management and student affairs for the College at Brockport of the State University of New York System.
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.
In Memoriam: Janice Hardison Faulkner, 1932-2019
Faulkner joined the English department faculty at what is now East Carolina University in 1957. In addition to teaching English, over a long career she served as director of alumni affairs, chair of the board of the ECU Credit Union, director of the Regional Development Institute, and associate vice chancellor for regional development.
Name Change and More for Women’s Studies at Southern Connecticut State University
Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven has announced that it is changing the name of its Women’s Studies Program to the Women’s and Gender Studies Program. In addition to the name change, the program will be strengthened with new offerings.
The Univerity of Houston Launches New Women’s Studies Research Institute
The Institute for Research on Women, Gender & Sexuality will focus on issues including workforce, health, family and relationships, social dynamics, leadership, and equity as well as examining how gender and sexuality impact all aspects of life in Houston.
Study Finds That Women Have Better Episodic Memories Than Men
So-called episodic memory is defined in the Encyclopedia of Neuroscience as “consciously recollected memories related to personally experienced events.” A new study led by a graduate student at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden finds women outperform men in episodic memory.
Mississippi State’s Melanie Loehwing Wins Book Award From the National Communication Association
Melanie E. Loehwing, an associate professor in the department of communication at Mississippi State University, is being honored for her book that examines homelessness and the relationship between public policy and ideas and practices of democracy.
Study Finds Significant Gender Pay Gap Among Pediatricians in the United States
Women pediatrcians surveyed in 2016 earned $51,000 less, or 78 percent of what men earned. When adjustments were made to compare pediatricians with similar worklife characteristics, women made 94 percent of what was earned by their male counterparts.
Research Finds an Easy Way to Increase Women’s Participation in STEM Courses
NaLette Brodnax, an assistant professor in the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University, created a set of brochures that were integrated into the advising process during freshman orientation so women could see how a technology class would align with their degree requirements and with their interests.
