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Oregon State University Research Finds Water Births Are Just as Safe As Traditional Births
Water birth is offered in some hospitals in the U.S. but is much rarer here than in most developed countries around the world. Only 1.5 percent of people in the U.S. give birth outside of a hospital, and about half of these elect to have a water birth. The results showed that water births were associated with lower risks for several maternal outcomes, including 64 fewer hemorrhages per 10,000 births, and 28 fewer hospitalizations in the first six weeks.
Two Women Scholars Will Serve as Co-President of Sociologists for Women in Society
Mary Osirim, a professor of sociology at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, and Melanie Heath, an associate professor of social sciences at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, has been named co-president of Sociologists for Women in Society. Founded in 1971, the organization is a nonprofit professional feminist group dedicated to encouraging the development of sociological feminist theory and scholarship.
Rutgers University Study Finds That Postpartem Depression Can Have Lingering Effects for Up to 15 Years
Researchers looked at 4,362 U.S. women who delivered babies between 1998 and 2000 and were followed until 2017. They found that maternal depression during the first year had a strong and sustained association with economic hardship — such as meeting medical costs, experience of utility shut-offs, inability to pay bills, and food and housing insecurity — up to 15 years later.
In Memoriam: Frances McCall Rosenbluth, 1958-2021
Frances McCall Rosenbluth was Damon Wells Professor of Political Science at Yale University. She was the first woman to chair the political science department at the university.
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.
Four Women Scholars Who Have Been Appointed to Endowed Professorships
The four women who have been appointed to endowed chairs are Jennifer Klein at Yale University, Kjerstin Thorson at Michigan State University, Rosemary Nabaweesi at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee, and Anne Rimoin at the Fielding School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Gender Differences in Educational Attainment Vary by Sexual Orientation
A new study by a sociologist at the University of Notre Dame finds that roughly 52 percent of gay men in the U.S. have a bachelor’s degree, while the overall national number for all adults in the U.S. is 36 percent. Lesbian women also significantly surpass most other groups of American adults, but their degree attainment is significantly less than gay men. And for younger women, lesbians’ degree attainments trailed those of straight women.
Suzanne Keen Will Be the Next President of Scripps College in Claremont, California
Dr. Keen is a distinguished scholar and professor of English literature. Since 2018, she has served as vice president of academic affairs and dean of faculty at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. She is the former dean of the college at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, where she served as chair of the English department. She will become president of Scripps College on July 1, 2022.
Study Finds a Sharp Rise in Marijuana Use Among Pregnant Women
A new study, co-led by researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine and Columbia University, has captured the magnitude and issues related to cannabis use disorders during pregnancy. The study found that the proportion of hospitalized pregnant patients identified with cannabis use disorder – defined as cannabis use with clinically significant impairment or distress – rose 150 percent from 2010 to 2018.
A Scholar of International Terrorism Will Be the First Woman President of the Carnegie Corporation of New York
Since 2016, Louise Richardson has been the vice chancellor of the University of Oxford in England. Earlier, she was the first woman to serve as principal and vice-chancellor of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Dr. Richardson served on the faculty at Harvard University for 20 years and was the executive dean of Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She will begin her leadership of the Carnegie Corporation in January 2023.
Survey Finds the Pandemic Changed Single People’s Attitudes About Relationships
A new survey by Singles in America identifies changing attitudes on what is important to unmarried men and women when they are seeking a partner. This year, for the first time ever in the survey’s history, there was a drop in singles’ preference for physical attractiveness. Only 78 percent of survey respondents said they wanted a partner who was physically attractive compared to 90 percent in the previous survey.
In Memoriam: Pamela Ann McCorduck, 1940-2021
Pamela McCorduck taught at the University of Pittsburgh and Columbia University and was the author or co-author of 11 books, many on the field of artificial intelligence.
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 New Home for the Institute of Women’s Leadership at Texas Woman’s University
The institute was originally created and funded by the Texas Legislature in 2015 as the Center for Women in Business. In 2017, the Legislature expanded the mission of the institute to include leadership training for women in the areas of business, public policy, public service, and scholarly research. The university recently opened a new headquarters for the center on campus.
American Society of Landscape Architects Professional Award of Excellence in Research Won by Samantha Solano
Samantha Solano, an assistant professor of landscape architecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, was honored for her work on the Visualizing Equity in Landscape Architecture (VELA) Project, the first visual database to compare gender representation over time and location in the field of landscape architecture.
The University of Pennsylvania Names Three Women Scholars to Endowed Professorships
Emily Hannum, professor of sociology, has been appointed Stanley I. Sheerr Term Professor in the Social Sciences. Nancy J. Hirschmann, professor of political science, and Anthea Butler, professor of religious studies, have been appointed Geraldine R. Segal Professors in American Social Thought.
More Evidence of the Adverse Effects of the Pandemic on Women’s Scholarly Activity
In an examination of article submissions to more than 2,300 journals published by Elsevier, the authors found that while the number of manuscripts submitted to journals generally increased during the first wave of the pandemic compared to similar months in the two prior years, the number of manuscripts submitted by men was higher than those submitted by women.
University of Toronto Study Finds Significant Gender Bias in Referrals to Surgeons
The study of more than 40 million referrals to 5,660 surgeons from 1997 to 2016, found that male surgeons in Ontario made up 77.5 percent of all surgeons but received 79 percent of referrals from female physicians and 87 percent of referrals from male physicians. And no progress was indicated in the two decades of research data.
The Pandemic Restricted the Number of U.S. Students Studying Abroad, But the Gender Gap Remained Huge
Of the 162.333 American students who studied abroad in the 2019-2020 academic year, 67.4 percent were women. This is up slightly from the previous academic year and is the highest percentage of women among the study abroad pool in this century.
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.
Five Women Scholars Who Have Been Appointed to New Positions at Colleges and Universities
Taking on new roles are Joanne Solis-Walker at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology, Judith Green McKenzie at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Sophie Esch at rice University in Houston, Andia Augustin-Billy at Centenary College of Louisiana in Shreveport, and Jennifer Keys at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
Two Women Professors Share the Pardes Humanitarian Prize in Mental Health
The Pardes Humanitarian Prize in Mental Health, which carries an honorarium of $150,000, is awarded annually the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation to recognize individuals whose contributions have made a profound and lasting impact in advancing the understanding of mental health and improving the lives of people who are living with mental illness.
Study Finds Academic and Professional Women Are Less Likely to Ask for Extensions to Complete Tasks
A new study led by Ashley V. Whillans, an assistant professor in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business Schools, finds that in professional and academic settings women avoid asking for more time to complete work tasks, even when deadlines are explicitly adjustable, undermining their well-being and task performance.
The Higher Education Gender Gap in Enrollments Is Compounded by Lower Graduation Rates for Men
In 1972, there was a 12 percentage-point gap in favor of men in bachelor’s degree awards. By 1982, following the passage of the landmark Title IX laws, the gender gap had closed. Nobody predicted what happened next: the gap started to widen rapidly in the opposite direction.
Robin Cautin Appointed Provost at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut
Dr. Cautin had served as acting provost since May. Earlier, she was dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at the university for seven years. Dr. Cautin holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Delaware and a doctorate in clinical psychology from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.
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.
In Memoriam: Pauline Bernice Lackow Bart, 1930-2021
Pauline Bart was a leading feminist scholar who taught sociology and women’s studies at the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the University of California, Los Angeles.
Bryn Mawr College’s Anita Kurimay Wins the Reginald Zelnik Book Prize for Her Work on Slavic Studies
Dr. Kurimay was honored for her book Queer Budapest: 1873-1961 (University of Chicago Press, 2020). The book explores the history of non-normative sexualities as they were understood and experienced in Hungary between the birth of the capital as a unified metropolis in 1873 and the decriminalization of male homosexuality in 1961.
A Trio of Women Scholars Who Have Been Appointed to Endowed Positions in Higher Education
Stella Xu has been named the John R. Turbyfill Professor of History at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia. Ellen Avril was named the inaugural Judith H. Stoikov Curator of Asian Art at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and Yolanda Cooper was named the Lindseth Family University Librarian at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.
New Report Reveals Gender Gaps in Graduate Management Education Throughout the World
In the United States, there are 3,282,085 women between the ages of 20 and 34 who hold master’s degrees compared to 2,845,136 men, according to the report. But men out number women in graduate management education master’s degrees by a margin of 814,662 to 602,404. Thus, men hold 57 percent of all graduate degrees in management.
The Gender Gap in Voter Participation Rates of College Students
In 2020, 64 percent of women college students voted compared to 58 percent of male students. The voter participation rate at women’s colleges was particularly high, significantly higher than for college students generally. In 2020, 76 percent of all students at women’s colleges cast ballots.
