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Survey Finds That Women Economists Face Widespread Discrimination and Harassment
Some 42 percent of women economists reported that they had experienced some form of sexual harassment. And 6 percent of women economists reported unwanted sexual advances by another economist.
MariaTeresa Tersigni-Tarrant to Lead the American Board of Forensic Anthropology
Dr. Tersigni-Tarrant serves as an associate professor of anatomy in the Center for Anatomical Science and Education and the department of surgery, and as an adjunct professor of pathology at Saint Louis University.
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.
Cornell University Establishes the Bank of America Institute for Women’s Entrepreneurship
The program provides women entrepreneurs with the skills, knowledge, and resources to build their own businesses. The free, 12-week online program is broken down into six courses that each last for two weeks.
Northwestern University Study Finds Gender Gap in First-Time National Institutes of Health Grant Amounts
The investigators found that first-time grant recipients who were men received a median grant of $165,721. For women first-time grant recipients, the median grant was $126,615. Thus, the median funding for male grant recipients was 31 percent higher than the median amount awarded to women.
Survey Examines Lactation Facilities and Planning at Colleges and Universities
This study explores the planning and design of lactation spaces on college and university campuses from the perspectives of campus planners and facility professionals, administrators, and other decision-makers.”
Study Finds Gender Gap Shrinks When Companies Are Required to Report Wage Data
Several nations now require companies to make their wage data public in an effort to encourage them to pay men and women equally. A recent study of companies in Denmark co-authored by scholars at several U.S. universities finds that when this policy is enacted, the gender pay gap shrinks.
Five Women Who Have Announced Their Intentions to Retire From High-Level Posts in the Academic World
The five women leaving their posts are Wendy Libby, president of Stetson University in Florida, Susan Welch, dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Penn State, Catherine Murray-Rust, dean of libraries at Georgia Tech, Gail O. Mellow, president of LaGuardia Community College in New York, and Peggy Bradford, President of Shawnee Community College in Illinois.
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.
Two Women Scholars Among the Five Finalists for President of Boise State University in Idaho
Susan E. Borrego is currently chancellor and a professor in the School of Education and Human Services at the University of Michigan-Flint and Marlene Tromp is provost, executive vice chancellor, and a professor of literature and critical race and ethnicity studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev Wins 2019 Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence
The award honors individual achievements of curators who make lasting contributions that have shaped the way we conceive of exhibition-making today. The award comes with a $25,000 prize. Professor Christov-Bakargiev, who teaches at Northwestern University, will be honored at a ceremony in New York in April.
The Gender Gap in Educational Attainment in the United States
In 2018, 36,674,000 living men in the United States held a four-year college degree. This is 34.6 percent of all men over the age of 25. For women, 40,251,000 individuals held a four-year college degree. This was 35.3 percent of all women over the age of 25.
Study Finds That All Students Benefit When More Women Are in Their First College STEM Course
The research team examined data from students enrolled in an engineering program at a large, public, research-intensive university. The results found that an increase in percentage of women students in their first course improves persistence in the major for all students regardless of their gender.
Elisabeth Mermann-Jozwiak Named Provost at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania
Currently, Mermann-Jozwiak serves as professor of English and women’s and gender studies and as dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. She will become provost at Bucknell University on June 1.
Women Making Little or No Progress in College Sports Administration and Coaching
One of the most striking figures in a new report from the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) at the University of Central Florida is that in 2018, women held the head coaching job for only 40.1 percent of all women’s athletic teams in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
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.
Fourteen Women Scholars Taking on New Assignments in Academia
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.
Terry Tempest Williams Wins the Robert Kirsch Award from the Los Angeles Times
Terry Tempest Williams, writer-in-residence at Harvard Divinity School, will receive the Robert Kirsch Award from the Los Angeles Times. According to the newspaper, the award is a lifetime achievement prize “given to a writer with a substantial connection to the American West.”
Four Women Named Distinguished Professors at Pennsylvania State University
The four women named to Distinguished Professorships at Pennsylvania State University are Xuemei Huang in the College of Medicine, Aylin Yener in electrical engineering, Rebecca Strzelec in visual arts, and Veronica Montecinos in sociology.
New Study Finds Half of New Mothers Leave STEM Careers After Having Their First Child
According to a new study by scholars at the University of Michigan and the University of California, San Diego, 43 percent of new mothers and 23 percent of new fathers leave their full-time STEM jobs within four to seven years of the birth or adoption of their first child.
Study Finds Women’s Hormonal Cycles May Make Them More Prone to Drug Addiction and Relapse
Assistant professor of pharmacology Erin Calipari and colleagues observed that women represent a particularly large percentage of drug addicts but addiction studies have primary focused on the mechanisms underlying addiction effects in men.
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.
Bethel University’s Claudia May Wins Award for Christian Children’s Book
The award-winning book is the first in a series that follows the story of a young Black girl named Winnie, whose relationship with the God she calls Papa empowers her to live with remarkable love, curiosity, and bravery.
New Study Examines the Huge Gender Income Gap in the Nation’s Wealthiest Households
The researchers found that women’s income alone is sufficient to place a family within the top one percent of all families in only 5 percent of all elite households. Moreover, women’s income is necessary in pushing a household into the one percent threshold in only an additional 15 percent of all wealthy households.
Linda Darling-Hammond Appointed President of the California State Board of Education
Dr. Darling-Hammond is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education, Emerita at Stanford University. She is a former president of the American Educational Research Association and a member of the National Academy of Education.
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: Anne Firor Scott, 1921-2019
Dr. Scott, an authority on U.S. women’s hitory, was hired as a full-time Duke University faculty member in 1961. In 1980, she became the history department chair. Dr. Scott retired from her position in 1991.
Baylor University Poet Awarded New Zealand’s Most Prestigious Writing Fellowship
Chloe Honum, an assistant professor of English at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, has received the 2019 Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship. Dr. Honum will have the opportunity to research and write full time through a residence, stipend and tenure at the Sargeson Centre in Auckland.
Jenny S. Martinez Appointed the Next Dean of Stanford Law School
Professor Martinez joined the Stanford Law School faculty in 2003. Currently, she serves as the Warren Christopher Professor of Practice of International Law and Diplomacy and as a senior fellow of Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. Professor Martinez will become dean on April 1.
Study Finds Women Who Dress “Sexy” at Their Graduation Are Perceived As Less Competent Than Their Peers
The results of a study conducted at the University of Surrey in England showed that women who dressed more professionally were perceived to have higher grades, be more competent, and be dressed more appropriately then their peers who dressed in what was said to be sexy attire.
Researchers Find That a Family’s Preference For Sons Results in Low Math Scores For Girl Children in Same Family
Even when accounting for economic and educational levels, girls in boy-favoring families did worse on math tests. Additionally, the wealthier the family and the more educated the mother, the worse the daughter performed on math tests.
In Memoriam: Jill Mattuck Tarule, 1943-2019
Over a long career in higher education, Dr. Tarule taught at Goddard College in Plainfied, Vermont, Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the University of Vermont.
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.
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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.
Brown University’s Kiri Miller Wins the 2018 de la Torre Bueno Book Award
This award was established in 1973 to commemorate Jose Rollin de la Torre Bueno, who was the first university press editor to champion the field of dance. The award is presented annually by the Dance Studies Association to an English-language book that advances the field of dance studies.
