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Two Women Scholars Call for Greater Attention to Gender Differences in Opioid Use Disorder
The authors of a commentary in the journal Biology of Sex Differences note that women are more likely than men to be prescribed and use opioid analgesics and that women experience pain and the effects of opioids differently than men. Also, women tend to develop addictions more quickly than men.
New Duties for Eight Women Scholars 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.
Study Finds Academic Engineering Remains Largely the Domain of White Men
The study found that from 2001 to 2015, the number of women faculty members at U.S. medical schools increased by 34 percent. But the number of women faculty members in schools of engineering increased by only 4 percent from 2006 to 2014.
UCSF Study Finds a Genetic Explanation for Women’s Longevity Edge Over Men
In most areas of the world, women tend to outlive men. A new study conducted at the University of California, San Francisco has come up with a genetic explanation for the gap in life expectancy.
University of Alabama Birmingham Study Finds a Racial Disparity in Stroke Risk for Women
The researchers believe it is the first study to evaluate whether the stroke risk in men and women at a particular age is similar for White men and women compared to Black men and women.
Four Women Awarded Tenure and Promoted to Associate Professor at Williams College in Massachusetts
Williams College, the highly rated liberal arts institution in Williamstown, Massachusetts, has promoted four women to the rank of associate professor. They have also been granted tenure. The four women are Julie Blackwood in mathematics, Jessica Fisher in English, Aparna Kapadia in history, and Anjuli F. Raza Kolb in English.
Five Women Faculty Members Who Are Taking on New Assignments
Taking on new roles are Monica A. Coleman at the University of Delaware, Mimi Pipino at Ursuline College in Pepper Pike, Ohio, Juliet Koss at Scripps College in Claremont, California, Hilary Appel at Claremont McKenna College in California, and Rhea Datta at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York.
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.
Grants or Gifts Relating to Women in Higher Education
Here is this week’s news of grants and gifts that may be of particular interest to women in higher education.
Trident University’s Leandra Hernandez Wins Two Awards From the National Communication Association
Leandra Hernandez, a professor in the College of Health and Human Services at Trident University in Cypress, California, received two awards for her scholarship at the annual conference of the National Communication Association that was held recently in Salt Lake City.
Study Examines the Political Perspectives of College Students by Gender and Sexual Orientation
The study found that liberal political views may be more common among lesbian, gay and bisexual people as a group, and especially among lesbian and bisexual women. The study found a distinct “lavender liberalism” among mostly heterosexual, lesbian, gay and bisexual college students. Exclusive heterosexuals, on the other hand, are significantly less liberal.
Two Thirds of Women Who File Sexual Harassment Claims Face Retaliation From Their Employers
A new study by scholars at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, examined more than 46,000 complaints filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or fair employment practices agencies at the state level between 2012 and 2016. Some 68 percent of all employees who filed sexual harassment complaints reported some form of retaliation from their employers.
University of Alabama Led Study Finds Gender Bias in Dismissal Rates of Corporate CEOs
Researchers conducted an analysis of the hiring and firing decisions of publicly traded firms between 2000 and 2014. They found that women CEOs were 45 percent more likely to be fired than their male peers. This is true, according to the research, even when women have produced positive financial results for their firms.
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: Eleanor Maccoby, 1917-2018
Professor Maccoby was the first woman to chair the psychology department at Stanford. She held that post from 1973 to 1976.
Drew Faust Named a University Professor at Harvard University
Drew Faust, who stepped down as the 28th president of Harvard University on June 30, 2018, was appointed a University Professor at Harvard. She joins 24 other scholars who currently serve as University Professors at Harvard.
St. Cloud State University Professor Honored by the American Society for Engineering Management
Hiral A. Shah is an associate professor in the department of mechanical and manufacturing engineering at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. Her research is focused on curriculum and certification examination development, project management, and lean manufacturing.
Academic Disciplines With Huge Gender Gaps in Doctoral Degree Awards
In 2017, women earned nearly 47 percent of all doctorates awarded by universities in the United States. But there are a significant number of disciplines where women earned less than one third of all doctorates. In contrast, there are a large number of fields in which women earned more than three quarters of all doctorates.
Examining the Gender Gap in Engineering Degrees by Racial/Ethnic Group
Women earn a significant majority of all bachelor’s and master’s degree across all disciplines but women earn in all racial and ethnic groups earn less than a third of all bachlelor’s and master’s degrees in engineering.
Study Finds That Women Are Not Treated Well on Twitter
The results of an analysis of millions of tweets directed at 778 women journalists and politicians in 2017 showed that more than 7 percent of tweets directed at women were deemed problematic by analysts. This amounted to 1.1 million tweets over the year, or one every 30 seconds.
In Memoriam: Patricia Henderson Shimm
Patricia Henderson Shimm was the founding teacher and associate director of the Barnard Center for Toddler Devevopment at Barnard College in New York City. She served as associate director of the Toddler Center from 1972 to 2007.
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.
Ranking the States by the Percentage of Women Among Their Doctoral Degree Recipients
In Alaska, women earned 63.5 percent of all doctorates awarded in 2017. This was the highest percentage in the nation. In contrast, women earned only 30.9 percent of all doctorates awarded in South Dakota. Some 38 percent of all doctorates in the state of Utah and 38.6 percent of all doctorates earned in the state of Wyoming were earned by women in 2017.
Study Finds That Women Who Attend Highly Selective Colleges Are Less Likely to Marry
The study found that women who graduated from a selective college were nearly four percentage points less likely to have been married by the time they reached their late 30s than women who attended less selective schools.
New Federal Report Offers Data on Gender Differences in High School Dropout Rates
In 2016, 5.1 percent of all women ages 16 to 24 did not have a high school diploma and were not enrolled in school. For men the figure was 7.1 percent. This so-called status dropout rate has dropped significantly for women since the turn of the century.
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: Fiona Cowie, 1963-2018
Dr. Cowie began her career at CalTech in 1992 as an instructor in philosophy and was promoted to full professor in 2010. Her research focused on the evolution of the human mind and philosophical questions about language.
Five New Women Leaders at the Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine in Pasadena, California
Kaiser Permanente, the largest integrated health care system in the nation, announced in 2015 that it planned to open a new medical school. Recently the new medical school announced the appointments of five women who will have senior leadership roles at the medical school.
Cornell University Launches Exhibit Focused on Women’s Fashion and Empowerment
Cornell University has opened a new exhibit called “Women Empowered: Fashions From the Frontline,” which chronicles how women have strategically used fashion to empower and collectively uplift themselves.
U.S. Women Earn a Majority of All Doctoral Degree Awards But a Huge Gender Gap Persists in STEM Fields
In 2017, women earned less than a third of the doctorates in the physical sciences and less than a quarter of all doctorates in mathematics and computer science. In engineering, women earned 22.3 percent of the 8,452 doctorates awarded.
Both Men and Women Show Bias Against Women for Jobs and Activities Requiring Intellectual Ability
The results of the experiment found that people were less likely to refer a woman when the job description required high intelligence (43.5 percent women referrals) compared to when it did not (50.8 percent women referrals). Both women and men were less likely to refer women for the “high intelligence” jobs than for other positions.
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.
Three Women Scholars Honored With a Book Award From the American Musicological Society
The honorees are Maureen Carr, a Distinguished Professor of Music at Pennsylvania State University, Severine Neff, professor emerita of music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Gretchen Horlacher, professor of music at Indiana University.
Prestigious Awards Presented to Five Women Professors
The honorees are Daret St. Clair at the University of Kentucky, Elif Babul at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, Rachel Beane at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, Gina Athena Ulysse at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, and Laurie E. Cutting at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.
