After being told that Carnegie Melllon University did not hire women for faculty positions in science or engineering, Dr. Toor was a long-time researcher in metallurgy at the university.
In a study of over 2,800 millennials working in England, scholars from University College London found the income premium of early-career, college-educated women compared to women without a degree may be primarily explained by longer hours worked, rather than higher base salaries.
The Modernist Studies Association has presented its First Book Prize to Pardis Dabashi, assistant professor at Bryn Mawr College, and Kirsty Sinclair Dootson, lecturer at University College London who earned her Ph.D. at Yale University.
Of the more than 6,000 grants for infectious disease research in Britain between 1997 and 2010, less than one quarter went to research teams headed by women. And the average grant to men was 43 percent higher than the average grant to women.
