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Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Graduates Its 10,000th Woman
Susan K. Rainey, who earned a Seminary Studies for Student Wives certificate, was the 10,000th female graduate from Southwestern Seminary in its 111-year history.
Two Women Scholars Appointed to Endowed Chairs at Educational Institutions in Boston
Kirsten Davison will be the second holder of the Donahue and DiFelice Professor at the Boston College School of Social Work and Susan Brady was appointed to the Deloitte-Ellen Gabriel Chair for Women and Leadership at Simmons University.
A Snapshot of the Gender Gap in Educational Enrollments in the United States
In October 2018, there were 8,373,000 men enrolled in higher education compared to 10,534,000 women. Thus, women made up 56 percent of all enrollments in higher education. Women made up nearly 60 percent of total enrollments in U.S. graduate schools.
Study Finds That Adding Women to Corporate Boards Leads to a Decline in Market Value
A new study by two women scholars at the INSEAD business school in Fontainebleau, France, finds that when U.S. corporations put a woman on their board of directors, they tend to show a decline in market value over the next two years. The appointments are seen as “diversity hires” by investors and not in the interest of maximizing share value.
Can Women “Have It All?” Study Looks at Gender Equality in the Workplace and Happiness at Home
A study authored by Mihaela Pintea, associate professor of economics at Florida International University in Miami, finds that society is making it more financially rewarding for women to enter the workforce, and is slowly eroding the norms that prevent them from doing it.
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: Marilyn Yalom, 1932-2019
In 1976, Dr. Yalom was hired as deputy director of the Center for Research on Women at Stanford University. Later she was a senior scholar at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford, where she served as director from 1984 to 1985.
University of Kentucky’s Amy Murrell Taylor Wins the Frederick Douglass Book Prize
The Frederick Douglass Book Prize was established in 1999 and recognizes the best book published in English on slavery, resistance or abolition. The award and a $25,000 prize are presented annually by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the Gilder Lehrman Center for Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale University.
Tara Williams Appointed Dean of the Honors College at the University of Alabama
Currently, Dr. Williams is a professor of English and associate dean who oversees the honors curriculum at Oregon State University. She joined the faculty at Oregon State in 2004. She will begin her new duties on March 1.
A Trio of Women Appointed to Endowed Professorships at Yale University
The three women appointed to endowed chairs at Yale University are Joanne B. Freeman in American History, Catherine Panter-Brick in anthropology and Nancy J. Brown in internal medicine. Dr. Brown will also become dean of the Yale School of Medicine on February 1.
Stanford University’s Faculty Quality of Life Survey Reveals a Gender Gap in Satisfaction Levels
Stanford’s women faculty members responded less positively than their male colleagues across all areas addressed in the survey. The greatest differences can be found in concerns related to their scholarship and their experiences with discrimination and harassment.
Study Finds a Persistent Gender Pay Gap in Federal Scientific Departments and Agencies
The results showed that in the agencies based on physical sciences and engineering – the sciences culturally framed as more masculine – the researchers found that more of the pay gap can be attributed to inequalities within jobs, or “within-job discrimination,” so that men are paid more than women in the exact same jobs at the same agency locations. I
Three Women Appointed Regents Professors at Arizona State University
Arizona State University has announced the appointment of five scholars as Regents Professors, the highest faculty rank at the university. Three of the new Regents Professors are women: Nancy Grimm in ecology, Joan Silk a professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, and Cassia Spohn a professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice.
Women Who Suffer From PTSD Are Twice as Likely as Other Women to Develop Ovarian Cancer
Ovarian cancer is the deadliest gynecologic cancer and the fifth-most-common cause of cancer-related death among U.S. women. Studies in animal models have shown that stress and stress hormones can accelerate ovarian tumor growth, and that chronic stress can result in larger and more invasive tumors.
Kendra Scott and the University of Texas Establish the Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership Institute
Kendra Scott is a fashion designer who got her start in Austin and has created a billion-dollar company with retail stores and an extensive online business. Scott has a history of supporting women’s causes.
President of California State University, Northridge Announces She Will Step Down in June
Dianne Harrison, president of California State University, Northridge since 2012, announced that she will step down from her post on June 30, 2020. President Harrison’s academic and research areas of expertise include HIV prevention among women and minority populations and higher education issues related to university leadership.
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.
Baltimore Museum of Art to Only Purchase Works by Women in 2020
The Baltimore Museum of Art has 95,000 works of art. Just 4 percent were created by women. Now the museum is taking a major step to address the imbalance.
Haunani-Kay Trask Receives the 2019 Angela Y. Davis Prize From the American Studies Association
Professor Trask served as a tenured member of the University of Hawaiʻi faculty for more than 30 years. She was the founding director of the university’s Mānoa Center for Hawaiian Studies and a leader in the Hawaiian sovereignty movement.
University of Georgia Scholar Honored by the American Educational Studies Association
Cynthia B. Dillard is the Mary Frances Early Professor of Teacher Education in the department of educational theory and practice of the College of Education at the University of Georgia. Dr. Dillard was honored at the association’s annual conference in Baltimore earlier this month.
Eight Women Hired as Assistant Professors at Mount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke College, the highly rated liberal arts educational institution for women in South Hadley, Massachusetts, has eight women who are serving as new assistant professors on campus this fall.
Women Are Two-Thirds of All U.S. College and University Students Who Study Abroad
The data shows that during the 2017-18 academic year, 341,751 American students went abroad to engage in academic pursuits at foreign colleges and universities. Of these, 67 percent were women.
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: Ruth Trinidad Galván
Ruth Trinidad Galván, an associate professor in the department of language, literacy and sociocultural studies at the University of New Mexico. She was also affiliated with the women’s studies program and the department of Chicana and Chicano studies.
New Assignments for Seven Women Faculty Members at Major Universities
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 or have been assigned new duties.
Study Offers a Roadmap to Reduce Bias and Increase the Number of Women in STEM Research
Last December a group of 23 scientists met at the Banbury Center in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, to discuss ways to reduce bias and increase the number of women in STEM research positions. Their findings were recently released in a paper published in Science magazine.
Leila Hamdan Chosen to Lead the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation
Dr. Hamdan is an associate professor of coastal sciences and interim associate director of the School of Ocean Science and Engineering at the University of Southern Mississippi. She will become president of the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation in 2021.
Women Underrepresented on the Editorial Boards of Major Journals in Statistics and Biostatistics
A new study by Andrea Foulkes a professor of mathematics and statistics at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, finds that women comprise less than a quarter of editorial board members on prestigious journals in statistics and biostatistics.
Addressing the Lack of Women in Leadership Positions in Academic Pediatrics
in 2017, women were 35 percent of all physicians in the United States but 63 percent of all pediatricians. Women made up 57 percent of all medical school faculty in pediatrics but were just 35 percent of all full professors in pediatrics and 26 percent of pediatric department chairs.
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’s Entrepreneurship Program at Cornell University Doubles in Size
W.E. Cornell was founded last year to empower and train women entrepreneurs in Cornell University’s STEM programs. The program aims to level the playing field by providing members with networking, mentoring and training opportunities to help them compete for venture capital.
