Dr. Gutmann led the University of Pennsylvania from 2004 to 2022, making her the institution's longest serving president. After her retirement, she became the first woman to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Germany.
Dr. Guyer was a professor emerita at Johns Hopkins University where she formerly served as the George Armstrong Kelly Professor of Anthropology and co-chair of The Academy. Throughout her career, she conducted extensive research on economic transformations in West Africa.
A new study from the national Bureau of Economics research finds that girls who were born into families that had a boy-biased structure scored an average of three percentage points lower on math and science standardized tests than girls from non-biased households.
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.
Currently, Dr. Jacobsen serves as provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. In addition to her administrative positions, Dr. Jacobsen serves as the Andrews Professor of Economics at Wesleyan.
Dr. Lancaster was dean emerita of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Before joining the Georgetown faculty in 1981, Dr. Lancaster was deputy assistant secretary of state for Africa. She also served as deputy administrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Lisa M. Lynch has been serving as dean and the Maurice B. Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at the university. During the Clinton administration, Dr. Lynch was chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor.
The school says that the offering is "the oldest and most extensive collection of women's history in Europe." The collection, originally the property of the London Metropolitan University, includes tens of thousands of books and documents.
The study of thousands of women born in the year 1970 found that women who spent any time in college, and especially those with a college degree, are more likely than other women to become heavy drinkers of alcohol and are more likely to develop drinking problems later in life.
