Sentences with phrase «female full professors»

In a 4 - year period, female full professors co-authored only 14 papers with female junior faculty members in their departments, half as many as expected, the team reports online today in Current Biology.

But at least for female psychologists, that collaborator tends to be male, even when there are female full professors available, according to a new study.

Study of psychology departments finds that female full professors are less likely to co-author papers with lower ranking women

«In a 4 - year period, female full professors co-authored only 14 papers with female junior faculty members in their departments, half as many as expected,» the team reports online... in Current Biology.

They began by identifying 50 institutions from across the U.S. and Canada with at least two male and female full professors, and two male and female assistant professors in their Psychology Departments.

When she became a full professor at the Open University of London in 1991, it doubled the number of female full professors of physics in the United Kingdom.

Wright knows of what she speaks: she was the first African - American woman to dive with Alvin, and today she is still the only African - American female full professor at OSU.

Not exact matches

In an example that has been getting wide attention in the media — both journalistic and social — University of Hawaii, Manoa, geobiologist A. Hope Jahren, a full professor who has spent decades building a successful career in academe, warns fellow female scientists of one pattern they are pretty likely to encounter as they try to make their way in academic science: the telltale strategy of a male colleague or superior bent on an exploitative sexual relationship.

And then there were the infamous «scissors diagrams» (e.g., 7) showing that, from roughly gender - balanced undergraduate numbers, attrition began straightaway: 40 % of Ph.D. students, 32 % of postdocs, 21 % of assistant professors, 8 % of associate professors, and 5 % of full professors were female amongst scientific personnel in the Netherlands (1998 figures).

Although the percentage of doctorates awarded to women in life sciences increased from 15 to 52 percent between 1969 and 2009, only about a third of assistant professors and less than a fifth of full professors in biology - related fields in 2009 were female.

Of course, even if collaboration is completely gender - blind, those gender ratios would not be equally split between male - male and male - female pairs, because there are twice as many male full professors and the rate of publication varies between departments.

Female academics face several challenges that their male colleagues don't, says lead author Joyce Benenson, a psychologist at Emmanuel College in Boston (who co-authored the paper with Richard Wrangham, a full professor at Harvard University where Berenson worked previously as junior faculty).

Although the percentages of female junior faculty members in all of these categories are roughly double those of full professors — a promising trend — women remain a small minority on science and engineering faculties.

While the gender ratio of assistant professors is almost exactly even, with slightly more females, full - professor males still outnumbered females 2 to 1 in their data.

For example, females make up more than half of biomedical science undergraduate (58 %) and postgraduate (53 %) degrees but only 18 % of full professors in the biomedical science.

Two other female professors had also taken full or partial leaves from the law school.