Sentences with phrase «female faculty»

Thanks to affirmative action, the number of female faculty members teaching in art schools and universities continues to grow as well.

Most academic institutions have recognized the problem, and many are improving their policies, especially for female faculty members.

Despite significant attention to hiring more female faculty members in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, they remain underrepresented at the top levels of academia.

If female faculty do have children, they are more likely to drop out of the profession than are physicians and lawyers.

It follows that many female faculty members will be the only woman in their department.

It is thought that female faculty gets lesser scope, promotions, salary and resources than men with accomplishments in this stream.

The pressure to be a role model for younger female scientists can sometimes be taxing, even daunting, for female faculty struggling themselves to claim their space in a competitive research environment.

Female faculty members are more likely to report spending more time on teaching and less time on research than male faculty members.

ADVANCE supports efforts to increase the number of female faculty in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

The Status of Women Office makes every effort to connect female students with female faculty members early in the academic year.

The National Science Foundation provided support to the center for releasing travel awards to U.S. female faculty researchers in STEM, to attend the gender summits held in four countries, in 2015 and 2016.

An undercurrent of historical bias against female faculty members may also slow advancement.

It happened to me; it happens to other female faculty members; and it happens to female staff, graduate students, and undergraduates.

The discrepancy between male and female faculty experiences, for example, has persisted over the 15 years WISELI has been working to improve climate.

Carol really doesn't have much time to devote to mentoring Sarah but feels obligated to do so, as she is the only female faculty member in the department.

In one study, science faculty were given identical résumés in which the names and genders of two applicants were swapped; both male and female faculty judged the male applicant to be more competent and offered him a higher salary.

Jones alleges in her complaint that Salk leaders used female faculty members and scientists as «donor - bait» by picturing them on mailers sent to potential donors «in an effort to make it appear that Salk recognizes the importance of retaining and promoting and paying women equally» (see image, below).

Didion says it's important to study what historically black and other minority - serving institutions do to attract top black female faculty members; create platforms where new hires can voice concerns without fear of reprisal and ensure transparency in the promotion and tenure processes.

One - third of Harvard's natural science departments have no senior women at all, and nearly half have no junior female faculty members.

The on - site childcare center for Penn Medicine may help female faculty better manage an extra juggling act that could limit some opportunities for professional progress: Studies show that women often have disproportionate family caregiving roles — which might cut into their available time to match male colleagues» extra hours spent in the office or lab, or networking.

After joining the new California Institute of the Arts in Valencia as the first female faculty member, Schapiro met Judy Chicago.

Interestingly, those law schools with a higher percentage of full - time female faculty also had a higher percentage of women on law review overall, although there was no corresponding increase in law review leadership or editor - in - chief positions held by women.

Externship courses are more heavily taught by female faculty than law clinics, as 75 % of full - time externship teachers are female.

Although academia can seem set in its ways, getting committees to change their hiring practices is possible, says Jessi Smith, professor of psychology at Montana State University in Bozeman, who developed a faculty - search strategy that increased the number of female faculty members hired.

The college has also tried to provide more role models and mentoring for female students by using more women as teaching assistants, hiring more female faculty members, and promoting them into leadership positions.

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«We wanted to evaluate whether the absence of female faculty members in physics departments is an appropriate measure of women's progress in physics,» said Susan White, research manager in the Statistical Research Center (SRC) at AIP, who conducted the study with Rachel Ivie, associate director of the SRC.

Among other things, It uses such factors as a school's diversity — in female faculty, staff and board members — to judge the «quality» of a program.

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

Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower, Mary Ann Mason reports that while women in so - called «fast - track professions» have fewer children than does the average American woman, female faculty are almost half as likely as female physicians and slightly less likely than female lawyers to have a child at all, even though academia offers far more flexible hours than the average law firm or hospital.

Fact B: There are only two female faculty members in my department, and neither has children.»

By having the contacts in place in advance, gathering such information will be easy; without the contacts, the candidate would have to resort to making cold calls to female faculty members where she was interviewing, and this would probably yield very little worthwhile information.

For example, before taking a position at a university, a female job candidate might contact any female faculty members who have left that university and female faculty members at nearby universities in order to learn more about their environments.

Even if half of all faculty members were women, she notes, we would still expect to find over 100 departments with either all - male or all - female faculty.

There isn't socialization between male and female faculty members.

First, «female faculty are more likely than their male colleagues to be on the CET type, if one is available, and less likely to be on the TTT type, if one is available.»

By comparing the actual distribution of women in physics with simulated results, the report shows, if anything, that today there are more departments than expected with at least one female faculty member.

Female faculty members go out to coffee with female faculty members.

She has found that female faculty members at her institution almost always have less favorable views of their department's climate — reflected in the department's unspoken expectations and interpersonal relations — compared with male faculty.

At UCI, an ADVANCE grant allowed them to restructure search committees through the addition of female faculty.

Mentoring may come more easily to female faculty, says Heath, who has been the postgraduate student coordinator at her institute since 1995.

Current recruiting strategies don't seem to be working, but chairing a search committee with a female faculty member is a simple step that often fills open jobs with women.

For example, as a post-doctoral fellow in 1994, Anne Hart, now a biology professor at Brown University, attended a conference where she talked at length with two female faculty members from other institutions.

Departments that already have female faculty members are likely to have a climate that is friendlier to women, he explains, and therefore attract more women.

The dean also focused on building up the numbers of female faculty members: «I put a lot of pressure on the department heads to make sure they were working hard to find women candidates — and that has been very successful.»

Hiring a heterosexual dual - career couple brings in both a male and a female faculty member; in percentage terms, then, the effect on faculty diversity is diluted.

Perhaps the most shocking statistic was the most obvious: The total number of female faculty members in the sciences had not changed much since the days when McClintock had written to the young Hopkins.

The study shows that, on average, male faculty at top institutes employ fewer female graduate students and postdocs than female faculty at those same institutes do, and elite males — as defined above — train even fewer.

The stunning serigraph, Night Watcher (1955) is said to have been created as a response to the close scrutiny she received as a female faculty member.

Obtained dismissal of equal pay claim alleging that female faculty were systematically paid less than male faculty of educational institution