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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: Jing Wang, 1950-2021
Dr. Wang joined the faculty at MIT in 2001 as a professor in the Foreign Languages and Literatures Section of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. She chaired the Foreign Language and Literatures Section from 2005 to 2008.
Professor Rebecca Wanzo of Washington University in St. Louis Has Won Two Book Awards
Rebecca Wanzo, professor and chair of women, gender, and sexuality studies in the College of Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has won two major awards in the field of comic book studies.
The College Majors With the Widest Gender Disparities in Degree Attainments
The major with the great gender disparity is early childhood education. Women make up 96.2 percent of the majors in the field. Women also make up 90 percent or more of all majors in family studies and elementary education. In computer engineering, men make up 87.4 percent of all majors, the highest percentage favoring men among all the disciplines studied.
In Sports Betting, Women Bet Less Than Men But Have More Success
A recent study found that men accounted for 57 percent of all bettors but 72 percent of all dollars spent on sports betting in the United States. Furthermore, the authors found that 29.7 percent of male bettors placed more than $500 in sports bets per month, but only 12.2 percent of women bettors did.
Examining Gender Differences in Sports Participation
Researchers found that nearly one third of parents believed that boys are better at sports than girls. And parents of youth who have never played sports are more likely to believe that girls are not as competitive as boys and that sports are more important to boys than girls.
In Memoriam: Paula Joan Caplaan, 1947-2021
Paula Joan Caplaan, was a psychologist and prominent feminist scholar who taught at Harvard University and the University of Toronto.
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: Sally Miller Gearhart, 1931-2021
In 1973, Dr. Gearhart was hired by San Francisco State University, where she became the first open lesbian to be granted tenure at a major university in the United States. There, she played a major role in developing one of the first women and gender studies programs in the nation.
Yale’s Sharon Hammes-Schiffer Recognized for Her Pioneering Work in Chemistry Research
The Willard Gibbs Award, established by the American Chemical Society in 1910, is named for pioneering Yale scientist Josiah Willard Gibbs. Past winners include Marie Curie and Linus Pauling. The award honors pioneering work that opens new fields of chemistry research.
Emergency Room Patients Attended by a Woman Physician Have Lower Mortality Rates
The study included more than 100,000 patients who were admitted to a general internal medicine service through the emergency department. The study found that 4.8 percent of patients of women physicians died in the hospital. For patients who had a primary doctor who was a man, 5.2 percent died in the hospital.
American Association of University Women Examines the Gender Pay Gap and How to Eliminate It
In 2019, men had a median income of $57,456, while women had a median income of $47,299 — a wage gap of 18 percent. Based on recent progress, the AAUW report calculates that White women will reach pay parity with men by the year 2069. But for Black women, the trend suggests that they won’t reach wage parity until 2369, nearly 250 years from now.
In Memoriam: Sheila Tobias, 1935-2021
In 1967, Tobias she appointed assistant to the vice president for academic affairs at Cornell University. In 1970 she was named associate provost at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, where she led efforts to transition the once all-male school into a coeducational institution. Tobias’ writings and research focused on women’s anxiety toward pursuing math and science fields.
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.
Eleven Women Faculty Members Who Have Been Promoted or Are Taking on New Roles in Higher Education
Here is this week’s listing of women faculty members from colleges and universities throughout the United States who have been appointed to new positions, have been assigned new duties, or have been promoted.
University of Wisconsin Scholar Wins the Callaway Prize for the Best Book on Drama or Theater
Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been awarded the 2020 Callaway Prize. The prize, which carries a cash award of $9,000, is given by the department of English at New York University for the best book on drama or theatre published during the previous two years by an American author.
Susan Ferguson of Grinnell College Honored by the American Sociological Association
Susan Ferguson, professor of sociology at Grinnell College in Iowa, has been awarded the Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award from the American Sociological Association. This is the highest award offered in sociology for teaching. Dr. Ferguspn has taught at Grinnell College for more than 25 years.
Marcia Chatelain of Georgetown University Is the 2020 Hooks National Book Award Winner
The Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change at the University of Memphis has named Marcia Chatelain, a professor of history and African American studies at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., as the 2020 Hooks National Book Award Winner for her book Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America.
Four Women Scholars Who Have Been Named to Endowed Professorships
The four women appointed to endowed chairs are Sianne Ngai at the University of Chicago, Charmaine Royal at Duke University in North Carolina, Dina Katabi at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Nancy Wagner at Youngstown State University in Ohio.
Reported Sexual Assaults On College Campuses Continue to Increase
A new report from the U.S. Department of Education offers a detailed look at crime and safety at the nation’s schools and on college and university campuses.
UNESCO Report Finds Women Remain Far Behind Men in the High-Tech Sector
The UNESCO Science Report 2021 finds that women worldwide have made tremendous gains in the academic world but they remain far behind men in emerging fields such as data science, robotics, computing, and artificial intelligence.
A Gender Salary Gap Persists for Faculty in Some Internal Medicine Disciplines
The study found that in academic medicine specialties with greater female representation were consistently those in which all physicians had lower salaries. The widest pay discrepancy of 21 percent was in the field of cardiology.
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: Haunani-Kay Trask, 1949-2021
Professor Trask is credited with co-founding the contemporary field of Hawaiian studies and went on to become the founding director of the Center for Hawaiian Studies at the University of Hawai’i Manoa.
Katalin Karikó, a Hero of the Battle to Fight COVID-19, Honored by the Vilcek Foundation
Katalin Karikó, an adjunct professor of neurosurgery at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and a member of the scientific team whose innovative research established the foundation for COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, will receive the 2022 Vilcek Prize for Excellence in Biotechnology.
Four Women Who Have Been Appointed to Endowed Positions at Major Universities
The four women appointed to endowed positions are Arlene Fiore at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ulka Anjaria at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, Stacy Tessler Lindau at the University of Chicago, and Tracy Heather Strain at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.
The Gender Gap in Inventors in the Biomedical Field Impacts the Gender Focus of What Is Invented
A new study finds that patents in the biomedical field with all-female inventor teams were 35 percent more likely than all-male teams to focus on women’s health. Thus, they concluded that had male and female inventors been equally represented over the 1976 to 2010 period, there would have been an additional 6,500 more female-focused inventions.
Women Making Slow Progress on Corporate Boards, But Women Board Members Are Making an Impact
A new study by Seema Pissaris, a clinical professor of international business at Florida International University in Miami, finds that the presence of women on boards of directors brings actual change, contributing to aspects of firm strategy concerned with acquisition, allocation, and deployment of key assets and resources.
Huge Reductions in Screenings for Breast and Cervical Cancer Occurred During the Pandemic
The CDC warns that the reduction in the number of screenings may have a long-term effect on women’s health. The decline in screenings was more prevalent among, Blacks, Hispanics, and other racial/ethnic minorities and therefore may widen existing racial and ethnic health disparities.
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.
Valzhyna Mort of Cornell University Wins the 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize
The Griffin Prize is awarded by the Griffin Trust in Oakville, Ontario, to first edition books of poetry written in, or translated into, English and submitted from anywhere in the world. The prize was founded in 2000 to encourage and celebrate excellence in poetry. With the prize comes an award of $65,000 Canadian dollars.
