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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.
Texas Woman’s University to Offer a New Bachelor’s Degree Program in Gender Studies
The multicultural women’s and gender studies program at Texas Woman’s University in Denton has offered a master’s degree and a doctoral degree program as well as a graduate certificate and an undergraduate minor. Now, pending an expected approval from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Texas Woman’s University will have a new bachelor’s degree in gender studies.
In Memoriam: Sara McLanahan, 1940-2021
At Princeton Universsity, Professor McLanahan was the founding director of the Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing and a principal investigator of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a landmark longitudinal study that has for two decades followed nearly 5,000 children born to unwed parents between 1998 and 2000 in 20 large U.S. cities.
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.
Disgusted by a Professor’s Remarks, Boise State University Senior Raises Funds for Women in STEM
After a faculty member stated that “making special efforts to recruit women into fields where they don’t seem to want to be” should cease, Ally Orr, a senior at Boise State, responded with a GoFundMe campaign that raised $70,000 for the Women in STEM, Medicine and Law Scholarship. The scholarship will help fund the education of women in these fields at Boise State this fall.
Four Women Scholars Appointed to Endowed Chairs at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania
Swarthmore College, a highly rated liberal arts educational institution in suburban Philadelphia, has appointed seven faculty members to endowed chairs. Four of these appointments went to women. The four women are Betsey Bolton in English, Tia Newhall in computer science, K. Ann Renninger in educational studies, and Patricia White in film and media studies.
New Research Finds Persisting Gender Bias in Linguistics Textbooks
Their study looked at six textbooks studying the scientific structure of language, published between 2005-2017. The authors found that male protagonists occurred almost twice as often as females in the textbooks and appeared in more prominent roles. Men were more likely to be portrayed as having stable occupations whereas women were more likely to exhibit emotions.
E. Elizabeth Magill to Serve as the Ninth President of the University of Pennsylvania
Professor Magill has been serving since 2019 as executive vice president and provost at the University of Virginia. Earlier, she was the Richard E. Lang Professor of Law and dean of Stanford Law School. Previously, she spent 15 years on the faculty of the University of Virginia School of Law. She is an expert on administrative law and constitutional structure.
In Workers Compensation Cases, Women Win More Money When Their Doctors Are Women
A new study from economics researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Illinois at Chicago showed that female claimants were 5 percent more likely to be evaluated as disabled and received about 8.5 percent more in cash benefits when the doctor assigned to their claim was female rather than male. There was no difference for male patients.
Ranking the States by the Percentage of Women Among Their Doctoral Degree Recipients
In Minnesota, women earned 919 doctorates compared to only 626 men. Thus. women earned nearly three firths of all doctorates awarded in the state in 2020, the highest percentage in the nation. In Wyoming, women made up only 34 percent of all doctorates awarded in the state in 2020, the lowest percentage in the nation.
Yoshiko Harden Is the New Interim President of Seattle Central College in Washington State
Dr. Harden served as vice president for student services at Seattle Central College from 2016 to 2021, overseeing areas such as student development, enrollment and registration, and the Guided Pathways initiative. Prior to Seattle Central, she served as vice president for diversity at Bellevue College, and as director of multicultural services and student development at Highline College.
In Memoriam: Nancy McKenzie Dupont
Dr. Dupont joined the journalism faculty at the University of Mississippi in 2006 after spending 17 years as a broadcast journalist and 13 years as a journalism educator at Loyola University in New Orleans. She was promoted to full professor in 2015.
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.
In Memoriam: Carol Lani Guinier, 1950-2022
Lani Guinier was the first woman of color to be a tenured professor at Harvard Law School. Earlier, she taught for 10 years at the law school of the University of Pennsylvania.
Four Women Faculty Members Who Are Taking on New Duties
Taking on new assignments are Tarina Kang at the University of Southern California, Cynthia Osborne at Peabody College of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Airea D. Matthews of Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, and Teresa Seefeldt of the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences at South Dakota State University.
Syracuse University Scholar Wins Book Prize for Her Study of Non-Governmental Organizations in Egypt
Catherine E. Herrold, associate professor of public administration and international affairs in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University in New York, has been awarded the Virginia A. Hodgkinson Research Book Prize from the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action.
Kimberlé Crenshaw Presented With the Triennial Award for Lifetime Service to Legal Education and the Legal Profession
Kimberlé W. Crenshaw is the Promise Institute Professor of Human Rights at the School of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles and the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia University. She was honored by the Association of American Law Schools for her work on critical race theory and intersectionality.”
Gender Differences in the Age of Doctoral Degree Recipients in the United States
On average, women who earned doctorates in 2020 were 31.8 years old when they received their doctoral degrees. For men, the average age was 31.3. On average, women who earned doctorates in 2020 took 9.2 years after they graduated from college to earn their degree. For men, it took an average of 8.3 years.
Ohio State University Study Finds Women Sports Fans Rarely Attend Sporting Events
A new study by researchers at Ohio State University finds that American women who identify as passionate sports fans don’t watch or attend athletic events much more frequently than women who say they aren’t as interested in sports. “Sport is commonly assumed to be a masculine activity,” explains Frances Sutton a doctoral student in anthropology […]
Study Finds a Gender Gap in Work Interruptions for Employees Working at Home Due to the Pandemic
The researchers found that even when both partners worked from home, the woman reported more demands related to childcare and household tasks. Women reported more interruptions than men did prior to the pandemic, but this difference has only increased. Women also noted more frequent interruptions from co-workers and supervisors while working from home than did men.
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.
Bowdoin College Professor Wins the Salvatori Prize From the Claremont Institute in California
Jean Yarbrough is the Gary M. Pendy Sr. Professor of Social Sciences at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. She was honored for her “understanding of, and actions taken to, preserve and foster the principles upon which the United States was built.”
Professor Darla Goeres of Montana State University Named Professor of the Year by ASTM International
ASTM International – formerly known as the American Society for Testing and Materials – is the primary organization that develops technical standards for a wide range of materials and other goods. Dr. Goeres was honored for her work developing standards for biofilms.
Framingham State University in Massachusetts Appoints Nancy Niemi as Its Eighth President
Dr. Niemi has been serving as provost and vice president for academic affairs at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in Princess Anne. Earlier, she was professor and chair of the education department at the University of New Haven in Connecticut.
Study Finds Women Patients Were More Likely to Die After Surgery If Their Surgeon Was a Man
Researchers analyzed data on 1,320,108 patients who had surgeries between 2007 and 2019. In more than half of these cases, the sex of the surgeon was different than the sex of the patient. The vast majority of these cases were male surgeons operating on women patients. The results showed that women who had male surgeons were more likely to die, experience readmission, or complication within 30-days following surgery than women who had a woman surgeon.
In 2020 There Were Large Gender Disparities in the Funding of Doctoral Education
Nearly 30 percent of all women who earned doctorates in 2020 took out loans to finance their doctoral studies. For men, 19.8 percent took out loans. The average graduate education debt for women was $30,966. Men who earned doctorates in 2020 had an average graduate student debt of $21,608.
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.
Meredith College Teams Up With William Peace University for a Joint Bachelor’s/MBA Degree Program
Meredith College, an institution that focuses on the education of women in Raleigh, North Carolina, and William Peace University, also in Raleigh, have formalized an agreement that provides a new, accelerated degree option where students at William Peace University will be able to complete a bachelorʼs degree and earn an MBA from Meredith College in five years.
Two Women Scholars Appointed to Dean Positions
Hollis Robbins has accepted an offer to serve as the next dean of the College of Humanities at the University of Utah and Roberta Waite will be the dean of the Georgetown University School of Nursing. Both appointments are effective on July 1.
Anita Allen Wins the American Philosophical Association’s Highest Honor for Service to Philosophy
Professor Allen is an internationally renowned expert on philosophical dimensions of privacy and data protection law, ethics, bioethics, legal philosophy, women’s rights, and diversity in higher education. In 2018-19, she was the first Black woman to serve as president of the American Philosophical Association.
Five Women Appointed to Endowed Professorships at the Harvard Graduate School of Education
The Harvard Graduate School of Education has announced the appointment of five faculty members to endowed chairs. All of the appointments went to women: Susan Dynarski, Heather Hill, Nonie Lesaux, Meira Levinson, and Catherine Snow.
Large Gender Disparities in the Funding of Doctoral Education
About one out of every five women who earned a doctorate paid for their degrees primarily from their own funds or savings. For men who earned doctorates in 2020, only 11.3 percent used their own funds or savings as the primary source for paying for their education. More than 29 percent of all women who earned doctorates in 2020 took out loans to fund their graduate education, compared to 19.8 percent of men.
