Sentences with phrase «college women studying»

MentorNet, founded in 1997 by Dr. Carol Muller, is a nonprofit e-mentoring organization that pairs college women studying engineering or science with professionals working in those fields.

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A Babson College study reported that in 1999, fewer than 5 percent of venture capital investments went to companies with a woman on the executive team.

Companies are becoming increasingly more committed to gender diversity once studies began exposing the uncomfortable truth: «Women remain underrepresented at every level in corporate America, despite earning more college degrees than men for thirty years and counting,» states the report.

Young women are simply losing interest in these fields as an area of study and a profession as they progress from middle school to high school to college.

A recent study from Babson College found that venture capital firms with female partners are more than three times as likely to invest in companies with female CEOs than firms led by all - male teams, but the percentage of women in the VC industry has dropped from 10 % to 6 % since 1999 — and only 2.7 % of VC - backed companies have a female CEO.

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) even released a statement about the miscarriage study, saying that all pregnant women should still get the flu shot.

One reliable study conducted by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College estimated that 44 % of men and 58 % of women will need nursing home care at some point in their life.1

«At least in terms of gender, the women's colleges have neutralized that element of study in science,» she says.

Across the nation, more women are attending college than men, and according to a CNBC article and research from the Institute of Family Studies, 2015 marked the first time in history that wives were better educated than their husbands.

Indeed, studies suggest that both male and female faculty and students at gender - mixed universities can often be unconsciously biased against women in STEM classes; yet, those biases aren't as much a concern at women's colleges.1

We've seen a jump in applicants to our college by 17 % each year for the last two, and within those increases, there's been a rise in the number of women who are interested in studying STEM every year,» she says, adding: «I've heard anecdotally that's also happening at many of our peer women's colleges.»

A 2014 study by Babson College revealed that the proportion of women partners in U.S. venture - capital firms declined from 10 percent in 1999 to 6 percent in 2014.

I can't find statistics, but studies have shown that LDS woman (and men) are more highly educated than the national average, and are more likely to have college degrees than the average American.

It is very difficult, according to women who have done both, to fit seminary, parish ministry, doctoral study, teaching, publication and child bearing into the two decades between college graduation and the age — the early 40s — at which tenure usually is granted.

American studies, biblical literature and Reinhold Niebuhr's social ethics focus on careerism, are issues consuming attention on American campuses, especially at predominantly women's colleges.

Robinson reminded us of the original, authentically neo-Puritanical Oberlin: The only college in America at the time which offered a liberal education to both blacks and women, and the place where everyone — including the professors — both studied and did useful work.

(They didn't have a women's studies major at Bryan College, believe it or not!)

The new president of Cedarville University, a Christian college in Ohio, has decided that no woman shall teach a man in any Biblical studies.

(CNN)- A picture of a woman with facial hair wearing a turban posted to the social media site Reddit has garnered a firestorm of Internet reaction and has taught at least two Ohio college students lessons in graciousness, humanities and religious studies.

CNN: Photo of woman with facial hair leads to conversation, understanding A picture of a woman with facial hair wearing a turban posted to the social media site Reddit has garnered a firestorm of Internet reaction and has taught at least two Ohio college students lessons in graciousness, humanities and religious studies.

Recently, the Mount Holyoke College women's - studies department reported that it will not longer stage an annual performance of The Vagina Monologues, having felt its feminism outflanked by the exclusion of «women» who lack the body part so prominently put forward by the play.

It says an anticipated total of 543 men and women will begin studies this Autumn at colleges across England.

No big surprise there, she went to a liberal arts college and studied women's rights.

Twenty - two years later the number of women's teams had increased, but most of the new coaching jobs had gone to men; according to a study conducted at Brooklyn College, only 49.4 % of women's teams were being coached by women.

She holds a BA in English from Boston College with a concentration in Women's Studies, studied literature at l'Universite Paris - Sorbonne, and spent her college summers working as a paralegal in a Connecticut laCollege with a concentration in Women's Studies, studied literature at l'Universite Paris - Sorbonne, and spent her college summers working as a paralegal in a Connecticut lacollege summers working as a paralegal in a Connecticut law firm.

The American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists emphasized the results of the Wax study in its official statement on homebirth, siting that «Women inquiring about planned home birth should be informed of its risks and benefits based on recent evidence.

In 1968, the average childbearing age of women was 23, but a recent study by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists found that now it is 29.3 years old.

Caroline Homer, one of the authors of the study, and Hannah Dahlen, a spokesperson for the Australian College of Midwives, take to the lay press to boast about the results of the study (Study of low risk women reveals good news on the home birth frstudy, and Hannah Dahlen, a spokesperson for the Australian College of Midwives, take to the lay press to boast about the results of the study (Study of low risk women reveals good news on the home birth frstudy (Study of low risk women reveals good news on the home birth frStudy of low risk women reveals good news on the home birth front):

Her work has appeared on eHow, and she received a BA in women's studies from Wellesley College.

The interesting thing is in real life, there's such demand from women to study forensic science at college now that colleges are desperately adding more and more courses to meet that demand.

«For genetic abnormalities, it's not just a woman's problem anymore,» says Harry Fisch, a professor of urology at Weill Cornell Medical College and the study's lead author.

I completed my bachelor's degree in women's studies from Queens College, City University of New York in 1999, birth and postpartum doula training approved by DONA International in 2013 and became a certified cooperative childbirth educator in 2014.

«Women really hate to get tested» with the oral glucose tolerance test, said Dr. Michael Traub of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, who worked on the study.

She attended the College of Mount St. Joseph with a major in social work and minor in women's studies.

The study, published in Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, the scientific journal of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) surveyed 1,000 pregnant women and 1,000 new moms.

I took women's studies in college and I never realized until then, the monetary value associated with the service that a stay at home parent forgoes.

And in a 2000 study, sociologist Martin found that college - educated women who put off motherhood until their 30s are suddenly having families almost as big as everyone else's.

An in - depth look at the study you claimed to have read would have shown you that of the home birthing women 92 % of the women were white 58 % had completed 4 or more years of college and 64.4 % of the these mostly married technically healthier and probably wealthier than average women could PAY their midwives out of pocket... these women are not representative of national averages.

She earned her BA in psychology and women's studies from Boston College and her MSW from the University of Pennsylvania, with extensive training in Play Therapy.

I am a sophomore in Grace Hopper College and a Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Major.

Dr. Zittel is the principle investigator of the Postpartum Mood Disorders Initiative at BSC, committee member for the Buffalo State College Women's Studies program, and board member of Postpartum Resource Center of New York.

We are supposed to believe that obstetricians (with 8 years of higher education, extensive study of science and statistics, and four additional years of hands on experience caring for pregnant women), the people who actually DO the research that represents the corpus of scientific evidence, are ignoring their own findings while NCB advocates (generally high school graduates with no background in college science or statistics, let alone advanced study of these subjects, and limited experience of caring for pregnant women), the people who NEVER do scientific research, are assiduously scouring the scientific literature, reading the main obstetric journals each month, and changing their practice based on the latest scientific evidence.

Yep, during my Women's Studies education in college, right after my «Shaving Your Head and Growing Your Armpit Hair» class, I'd go home and try out a new recipe from my cookbook or hand - sew backless hippie shirts.

Prown, a former professor of English and women's studies at William and Mary College, sees licensing midwives as the solution to the problem of unqualified providers.

This high ranking is due in large part to the College of Engineering and Computer Science and the School of Information Studies at SU that devote themselves to recruiting women for these fields at an early age and helping them feel comfortable in a college setting and a STEMCollege of Engineering and Computer Science and the School of Information Studies at SU that devote themselves to recruiting women for these fields at an early age and helping them feel comfortable in a college setting and a STEMcollege setting and a STEM field.

City College women's studies Professor Joyce Gelb said that being single is now no longer a serious hindrance when it comes to running for public office.

Program sponsors include UUP Oneonta, SUNY Oneonta Department of Secondary Education and Educational Technology, Hartwick College Education Department, Oneonta Area for Public Education, Gilbertsville - Mount Upton Teachers Association, UUP Cobleskill, Tri-County Women's Coalition, SUNY Oneonta History Department, Sidney Teacher Association, SUNY Oneonta Political Science Department, SUNY Oneonta Department of Africana & Latino Studies, Sherburne - Earlville Teachers Association, SUNY Oneonta Sociology Department, Sidney Teachers Association, Cobleskill - Richmondville Teachers» Association, Norwich Educators Organization, Morris Teachers Association, and Bainbridge - Guilford Teachers Association.

Attended the University of San Francisco, 2003 - 05; B.A. from Smith College, Program for the Study of Women and Gender, 2007.

The St. Lawrence County woman accused of helping her boyfriend kidnap two Amish girls studied the psychology of rape as a college student.

Baroness Helena Kennedy; Camila Batmanghelidjh of Kid's Company; Eve Ensler, founder of V - Day, a global movement to stop violence against women and girls; Lisa Jardine, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary College and chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Foundation; the barrister Rupert Grey, the environmental campaigner George Monbiot and; to stop things getting dull, the comedians Jeremy Hardy and Sue Perkins.