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Association of American Medical Colleges Changes Name of Its Most Prestigious Award
In a 1910 report, Abraham Flexner stated that while women were not barred from applying to medical school, they “show a decreasing inclination to enter it” — and that those who did had “obvious limitations.”
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.
Center for Women, Gender and Global Leadership Established at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
The Center’s academic focus will include producing innovative and theoretically grounded research and creating a data center on issues of women and gender. J. Jarpa Dawuni, an associate professor of political science at the university, was named director of the new center.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute Scholar Honored for Her Collection of Short Stories on Rural Kansas
Kate McIntyre, an assistant professor of creative writing at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, is the winner of the 2020 Flannery O’Connor Award. The award, named after famous short story writer and novelist Flannery O’Connor, was established by the University of Georgia Press in 1983.
Five Women Faculty Members Who Are Assuming New Assignments in Higher Education
The five women scholars in new roles are Olivia Law-DelRosso at Kansas State University, Caree A. Banton at the University of Arkansas, Maria Fitzpatrick at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, Elise Box at the University of South Dakota, and Karen Lewis at Washington State University.
Does Funding for State Universities in Oregon Have a Gender Bias?
A new study led by Jacqueline Strenio, an assistant professor of economics at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, finds that public funding of state universities in Oregon favors academic programs and universities with higher percentages of men.
New Study Aims to Determine How to Boost the Number of Women Academics in Management Information Systems
The researchers will collect data identifying barriers to women’s advancement in academic careers in management information systems, including promotions and tenure. They will also craft policies to recognize women’s contributions to the field of information systems and conduct training on recognizing gender bias in the discipline.
University of Massachusetts Study Finds Most Women Are Not Receiving Proper Postpartum Care
According to a study led by researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, most women are receiving fewer than half the services recommended during their comprehensive postpartum medical checkup. In one of the most startling findings, despite an increased awareness of perinatal depression, only one in 11 patients received a screening for depression.
Lena Hill Will Be the Next Provost at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia
Dr. Hill currently serves as dean of the College and professor of English and Africana studies at the university. Prior to joining Washington and Lee, Hill was associate vice president and interim chief diversity officer at the University of Iowa, where she was an associate professor of English and African American studies.
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 Faculty Members Who Are Taking on New Assignments in Higher Education
The six women faculty in new roles are Siqi Zheng at MIT, Cristin Gavin at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Kathryn Birkeland at the University of South Dakota, Charrise M. Barron at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, Susan Crawford Sullivan at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, and Sharon A. Simmons at Jackson State University in Mississippi.
Texas Woman’s University Scholar’s Book Honored by the National Women’s Studies Association
Danielle Phillips-Cunningham, an associate professor of multicultural women’s and gender studies at Texas Woman’s University, was honored for groundbreaking scholarship in women’s studies that makes significant feminist contributions to the topic of women and labor. T
Yale University’s Hazel Carby Wins Book Award From the British Academy
The British Academy’s Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize was established in 2013 to reward and celebrate the best works of nonfiction “that demonstrate rigor and originality, have contributed to global cultural understanding, and illuminate the interconnections and divisions that shape cultural identity worldwide.”
Isabel Wilkerson Is the Inaugural Winner of the $100,000 NYU/Axinn Foundation Prize
A graduate of Howard University, Professor Wilkerson has taught at Emory University, Princeton University, Boston University, and Northwestern University. She won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 1994, as Chicago Bureau Chief of The New York Times. She was the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in journalism.
American Association of University Women Assesses Impact of COVID-19 on Women’s Economic Security
A new study by the American Association of University Women shows that the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the economic security of women by a far higher degree than for men. This is especially true for women of color.
Study Finds Gender Bias in Evaluations of Graduate Teaching Assistants
A group of ecology students at the Univerity of Florida participated in an online class where they could not hear the voice of their teaching assistant. Half were shown a picture of a male teaching assistant, the other half were shown a pciture of female. in fact, the teaching assistant for all was a woman. Post-course evaluations showed a gender bias.
New Report Examines the Gender Gap in College Graduation Rates
For all students who enrolled in 2013, 62.3 percent of women earned a degree within six years. For all men who entered four-year colleges in 2013, only 56.2 percent had earned a degree by 2019.
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: Sonya Orleans Rose, 1935-2020
Dr. Rose joined the University of Michigan faculty as a professor of history and sociology in 1993. In 1995, she received an additional appointment as a professor of women’s studies. In 2002, Dr. Rose was appointed the Natalie Zemon Davis Collegiate Professor of History, Sociology, and Women’s Studies.
American Institute of Physics Gives the Science Communications Award to Professor Susan Hockfield
Susan Hockfield is a professor of neuroscience, a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, and president emerita at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was honored for her book, The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution.
Three Women Appointed to Endowed Chairs at Highly Rated Carleton College in Minnesota
At Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, Victoria Morse was named the Humphrey Doermann Professor of Liberal Learning. Anna Moltchanova was appointed the David and Mary-Alice Sipfle Professor of Philosophy and Clara Hardy is the new and David and Marian Adams Bryn-Jones Distinguished Teaching Professor of the Humanities.
The Gender Gap in Scholarly Productivity During the Pandemic May Have Long-Term Consequences
The research indicates that “the exceptional lock-down and social distancing measures imposed by the pandemic have penalized women academics and benefited men. Women at later stages of their careers were penalized the most, which in principle could be explained by more intense family duties.
The Persisting Gender Gap in Poverty Rates in the United States
For families headed by a single man, 11.5 percent of all families were poor. But for families headed by a single woman, 22.2 percent of all families were poor. The gender gap in poverty rates produces a major disadvantage in access to higher education for women, a path that might provide them a way out of poverty.
New York University Aims to Address the Gender Disparity in Entrepreneurship
The Female Founders Fellowship program supports entrepreneurs by plugging them into NYU’s ecosystem of resources, and, upon graduation, invites them to apply for grants of up to $50,000 each to help alleviate the financial burden of early-career startup costs.
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: Faye E. Dudden, 1948-2020
An expert on American women’s history, Professor Dudden taught at Union College in Schenectady, New York. She then taught at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, for two decades, retiring in 2016 as the Charles A. Dana Professor of History.
University of Rochester’s Brianna Theobald Wins Two Book Awards
Brianna Theobald, an assistant professor of history at the University of Rochester has won two awards for her first book, Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century.
Princeton University Announces the Hiring of Five Women to Its Faculty
Laura Edwards was appointed professor of history at Princeton University in New Jersey. In addition, four women were appointed to assistant professor positions: Michelle Chan in molecular biology, Adji Bousso Dieng in computer science, Yasaman Ghasempour in electrical engineering, and Yunqing Tang in mathematics.
Master’s Degrees Awarded in Many Disciplines Are Heavily Segregated by Gender
Women were 76.7 percent of all individuals who were awarded master’s degrees in educational fields and nearly 80 percent of all master’s degree recipients in health science fields. In contrast, women received only 27.3 percent of all master’s degrees in engineering and were just over a third of all recipients in mathematics and computer sciences.
New Census Data Shows a Major Gender Gap in Median Income and Earnings in the United States
In 2018, the median income level for family households headed by a single woman was 69.4 percent of the median income for family households headed by a single man and 47.0 percent of the median income of married-couple families. Both of these income gaps widened from the previous year in 2018.
Northwestern University’s Carol D. Lee Selected to Lead the National Academy of Education
Dr. Lee served as Edwina S. Tarry Professor of Education and Social Policy and as a professor of African American studies at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She became professor emerita in 2019. Professor Lee will serve a four-year term as president of the National Academy of Education beginning in November 2021.
Women Narrow the Gender Gap in Scores on the SAT College Entrance Examination
On the combined reading and mathematics sections of the SAT College Entrance Examination for students in the high school Class of 2020, men had a mean score of 1055 and women had a mean score of 1048. A year ago the overall gender gap in favor of men was 13 points. This year it was seven.
