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Study Examines How Sexual Orientation Impacts Academic Success
The study, authored by Joel Mittleman, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame, found that gay men outperform their straight peers, both men and women. But lesbian women do not perform as well academically as heterosexual women.
How the Pandemic Impacted the Academic Production of Women Physicians
At the onset of the pandemic in early 2020, when many Americans transitioned to working at home, the scholarly production of academic articles increased in most fields. But a new study led by researchers at Northwestern University finds that among physicians, men’s scholarly productivity increased while women physicians submitted fewer works to publishers.
Study Finds That Mothers Are Less Likely Than Fathers to Want to Get Their Children Vaccinated
Researchers conducted a survey of Medicaid patients in Florida. They found that the youngest Black and White mothers (those ages 30 and under) were least likely to intend to vaccinate their child. Older fathers were the most likely to favor vaccination.
Six Women Scholars Granted Tenure at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota
Macalester College, the highly rated liberal arts educational institution in St. Paul, Minnesota, has announced that six faculty members have been granted tenure. All six are 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.
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.
Women Athletes at San Diego State University File a Sex Discrimination Lawsuit
Seventeen former and current women athletes at San Diego State University have filed a class-action lawsuit charging the university with sex discrimination for not adhering to Title IX guidelines requiring gender equality in college sports.
In Memoriam: Gertrude Hughes, 1936-2022
Dr. Hughes joined the faculty at Wesleyan University in 1976 as an assistant professor of English. She taught at Wesleyan for 40 years, returning in 2006 as a full professor. She was a founder and early chair of the women’s studies program at the university.
A Trio of Women Who Have Been Appointed to Positions as Deans at Universities
Naomi E. Boyd has been named the next dean of the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Business. Cynthia Breazeal was named dean for digital learning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Kathy Fahl was appointed interim dean of students at Ohio University in Athens.
The Medieval Academy of America Recognizes the Work of Princeton’s Marina Rustow
Marina Rustow, the Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East and professor of Near Eastern studies and history at Princeton University in New Jersey, has been awarded the 2022 Haskins Medal, awarded annually for for a distinguished book in the field of medieval studies.
Mahzarin Rustum Banaji Awarded the NSF’s Atkinson Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences
Mahzarin Rustum Banaji, the Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics at Harvard University. The Atkinson Prize, given out by the National Science Foundation, comes with a $100,000 award.
Six Women Scholars Who Are Taking on New Academic Roles
The six women who have been appointed to new academic posts are Andrea Richa at Arizona State University, Eleni Pellazgu at Berkeley College in New Jersey, Kirsten Pai Buick at the University of New Mexico, Fran Hagstrom at the University of Arkansas, Lisa A. Carey at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Jane Okech at the University of Vermont.
Naminata Diabate Wins the Best Book Prize From the African Studies Association
Dr. Diabate is an associate professor of comparative literature at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. The award recognizes the most important scholarly work in African studies published in English and distributed in the United States during the preceding year.
Women Are a Small Percentage of Finance Faculty But Some Slow Progress Is Being Made
A new study conducted by Mila G. Sherman, professor of finance in the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Heather Tookes, professor of finance at the Yale School of Management, finds that only 16 percent of the finance faculty at the nation’s top business schools are women.
In Same-Gender Households Men Earn More Women and Men Earn More Than Opposite-Gendered Households
A new study from the Brookings Institution examines the economic status of same-gender, married and unmarried households in the United States. A surprise in their findings, according to the authors, is that women in a same-gender coupled family – regardless of marital status — have similar family income to opposite-gender couples.
Study Finds Gender Bias My Be Impacting Decisions in Student Loan Bankruptcy Cases
Researchers examined nearly 900 student loan discharge decisions handled in U.S. bankruptcy courts between 1985 to 2020. They found that men were 93 percent more likely to have their loans discharged when disclosing a medical condition, as compared to women who disclosed medical conditions.
Eiko Maruko Siniawer Appointed Provost at Williams College in Massachusetts
Dr. Siniawer is the ’97, the Class of 1955 Memorial Professor of History and chair of Asian studies at the liberal arts college. She joined the faculty at the college in 2003. A scholar of modern Japan, Professor Siniawer teaches a variety of courses on Japanese history.
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 Trio of Women Who Have Been Appointed to Dean Positions at Highly Selective Colleges and Universities
Margaret Vendryes has been appointed dean of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. Heather K. Gerken, the Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law, has been appointed to a second five-year term as dean of Yale Law School, and Gretchen Long, the Frederick Rudolph ’42 – Class of 1965 Professor of American Culture at Williams College in Massachusetts, will serve as the next dean of the college.
Four Women Scholars Who Have Been Appointed to New Roles at State Universities
Susan Goldberg was named vice dean a professor of practice at Arizona State University and Kristie Soares has accepted the position of co-director of LGBTQ Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. Also, Jill Wieber Lens is the new associate dean for research and faculty development at the University of Arkansas School of Law and Seretha Williams was appointed chair of the department of English and world languages at Augusta University in Georgia.
Florida State University Scholar Sarah Eyerly Received the Music in American Culture Award
Dr. Eyerly was honored by the American Musicological Society for her book, Moravian Soundscapes: A Sonic History of the Moravian Missions in Early Pennsylvania (Indiana University Press, 2020). The book explores Moravian music in eighteenth-century America and the sounds that influenced their religious culture.
Women Medical Students Found to Be Less Assertive in Class Than Their Male Peers
Researchers found that women both asked and answered fewer questions than men in large in-person classes. They also found that deferential language was more common in questions asked by women than in questions asked by men in large classes. The authors believe that this behavior may lead to gender biases in grading that disadvantage female students and trainees.
The Extent of Gender and Racial Bias in Academic Research
A new study of more than 5 million articles published between 2008 and 2019 — primarily by U.S.-based researchers found that Black, Latino, and women authors are underrepresented in many STEM fields and often appear as authors only in less-cited fields.
New Reports Examines the Impact of a Women College or University President on the Gender Pay Gap in Academia
A new report from CUPA-HR finds that female senior institutional officers, institutional administrators, and heads of divisions are paid more equitably at institutions with a female president than at institutions with a male president.
Bowdoin College Professor Emerita to Have Her Work Archived at the Library of Congress
Jorunn Buckley, professor emerita of religion at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, is having her entire academic archive preserved at the Library of Congress. Dr. Buckley, who retired from the Bowdoin faculty in 2016 after 17 years, is arguably the world’s premier expert on a little-known religious sect called the Mandaeans.
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.
Five Women Scholars Who Are Taking on New Faculty Assignments
Taking on new roles are Ruth McCelland-Nugent at Augusta University in Georgia, Marisa Anne Pagnattaro at the University of Georgia, Janice Nicholson at Mississippi State University, Danielle Dick at Rutgers University in New Jersey, and Sierra Young at Utah State University.
Colleges and Universities Announce the Appointment of Three Women to Dean Posts
Jennifer Jones Cavenaugh will become dean of the University of Richmond’s School of Arts & Sciences on July 1. Beronda L. Montgomery has been appointed vice president for academic affairs and dean of Grinnell College in Iowa and Sharon Kuska has been named interim dean of the College of Architecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
New Administrative Positions for Nine Women at Colleges and Universities
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States.
M. Heather Carver Honored for an Outstanding Career in Performance by the National Communication Association
The National Communication Association recently presented M. Heather Carver with the 2021 Leslie Irene Coger Award for Distinguished Performance. The award honors a body of performance or an outstanding career in performance. Professor Carver is chair of the department of theatre at the University of Missouri.
Women Still Vastly Underrepresented Among Presidents of the Nation’s Leading Research Universities
A new report from the Women’s Power Gap Initiative at the Eos Foundation, in partnership with the American Association of University Women, finds that women make up only 22 percent of the presidents at the nation’s major research universities. Most striking is the fact that 60 of these 130 research universities have never had a woman president.
Study Examines Health Records From the Past to See What Might Happen If Abortion Is Prohibited in Some States
With the U.S. Supreme Court allowing states to place restrictions on abortions and the prospect that the court may overturn Roe v. Wade, allowing states to ban abortion altogether, researchers at Georgia State University in Atlanta have produced a study that examined health records from the 1960 and 1970s. They found that state-level legalization of […]
Study Led by Yale University Scholars Examines If Women Are Less Psychologically Resilient Than Men
Researchers surveyed more than 2,500 health care providers at the hospital during the first wave of COVID-19 infections in 2020. Although women were more likely than men to report symptoms of psychological distress, this difference was no longer significant after taking into account preexisting and concurrent stressors, which are more often experienced by women.
