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There's lots of women in MBA programs; there are more
female graduates in finance than ever before.
Part of the problem is that there are not enough
female graduates in maths, physics and programming, although there are outstanding exceptions, such as Rhianna Pratchett, who has led the writing on games such as Tomb Raider and Mirror's Edge, and Sophia George, who spent 2014 as the Victoria and Albert museum's first ever resident game designer.
The higher
female graduates in Australia is a result of law being a first degree where you enter right out of high school.
Not exact matches
In a salary analysis that looked at the earnings of more than 14,000
graduate business school alumni, GMAC found that
female alumni experience a significant wage gap throughout their careers.
According to a Wall Street Journal analysis of U.S. Department of Education data, nine of the 10 largest STEM programs
in the U.S. have increased their share of
female graduates between 2012 and 2016.
In 2016, HMC
graduated its first majority -
female computer - science class.
I am 72 and retired,
female and divorced, with
graduate degrees and 45 years an academic
in higher education.
As a whole,
females tended to
graduate with less debt than their male counterparts, except for black
females who had $ 272 more
in debt than black males.
In Financial News» Special Report on Women in Finance, Lucy McNulty summarizes her findings on the future of the industry for female graduates.
In Financial News» Special Report on Women
in Finance, Lucy McNulty summarizes her findings on the future of the industry for female graduates.
in Finance, Lucy McNulty summarizes her findings on the future of the industry for
female graduates...
The analysis, which was done
in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the founding of Harvard Business School's African American Student Union, captures the career trajectories of the majority of
female black
graduates who have earned degrees from the school.
In April 2010, Tiffany had the honor of being the first female to graduate from the only three year Web Development and Design program offered in Ontario at Durham College in Oshawa, Ontari
In April 2010, Tiffany had the honor of being the first
female to
graduate from the only three year Web Development and Design program offered
in Ontario at Durham College in Oshawa, Ontari
in Ontario at Durham College
in Oshawa, Ontari
in Oshawa, Ontario.
Seminary these days seems to be more
female than male — wonder how many of these
graduate to find a placement
in a congregation?
«Men
in charge» leading to 60 % of college
graduates being
female,
females facing advantages when it comes to getting jobs
in engineering and if remaining
in full time appointment being favoured
in promotion
in comparison to their male counterparts.
Yet many seminary
graduates, male and
female, receive their first appointment or call as the assistant or associate pastor
in a large church.
This was borne out by research, such as a 2014 study by Jeremy Galbreath of the Curtin
Graduate School of Business
in Western Australia that found «the representation of women
in both winemaking and viticulture roles has declined since 2007, despite clear evidence to suggest that
female enrolments
in Australia's leading oenology and viticulture degree programs have been on the rise since the 1980s».
My husband is a fine cook and claims that he learned how to cook when he was
in graduate school
in order to be able to invite his
female classmates over for dinner.
There was also a story about Travis Walton, a former MSU player, being accused of punching a
female student
in the face while he was a
graduate assistant and then joining two Michigan State basketball players
in sexually assaulting a different
female student
in 2010.
A new radio ad
in South Carolina features Nancy Mace, the first
female graduate of The Citadel.
Congratulations to Chloe, who is now the youngest Member of the House of Commons and the youngest
female Conservative MP
in history (and also a fellow York
graduate to boot, albeit five years below me!)
Sydney Schreppler, a postdoctoral fellow
in physics at University of California, Berkeley, seeks to hire a
female graduate student mentee to contribute to her work on circuits that mimic the behavior of the world's smallest particles, known as superconducting qubits.
She was the first self - identified African - American to attend Vassar College, where she earned an undergraduate degree
in 1944, and, four years later, she became the first
female African - American to
graduate from Yale School of Medicine.
All physician - scientists and trainees need strong mentors, and the field
in particular needs strong women mentors to address questions and concerns among
female trainees,
graduates, and early - career clinical faculty.
Between 2002 and 2006, the number of
female Ph.D.
graduates increased faster than the number of male Ph.D.
graduates — but
in 2006, the number of women earning those degrees stopped growing and the number of men earning degrees started to decline.
Sarah Woolley, professor at McGill's Department of biology, and
graduate student Nancy Chen decided to investigate how developmental exposure to adult male song might affect behavioural responses to song
in female zebra finches.
A disproportionate share of African - American and Hispanic males (as well as
females) who received their S&E doctorates between 1995 and 1999 attended minority - serving institutions as undergraduates.1 Twenty - five percent of African Americans and 23 % of Hispanics receiving S&E doctorates received their bachelor's degrees at historically black colleges and universities and Hispanic - serving institutions, respectively.1 Minority - serving institutions overachieve
in producing much higher numbers (of either sex) of minority S&E
graduate success stories than majority institutions.
To investigate whether elephants use this behaviour to achieve goals, scientists from SOKENDAI (The
Graduate University for advanced studies) and Kyoto University studied two
female captive elephants, Mineko and Suzuko, at Kamine Zoo
in Japan.
Over time, this pattern appears to become more pronounced:
Females now outnumber males
in college, and more women go on to
graduate.
Men dominate S&E professorships, regardless of field and race.10 Among the top 50 universities
in chemistry, physics, computer science, mathematics, and engineering, at least 69 % (most times this number is much higher) of the professors are men, according to a report recently released by University of Oklahoma chemistry professor Dr. Donna Nelson.9 The lack of
female professors was far greater among minority women.9 Although the number of master's degrees and doctorates increased for every racial and gender category, except for white males, 1 white — and, to a lesser extent, Asian — men constituted the clear majority of S&E
graduate and faculty positions between 1990 and 1999.9
According to Gilbert, the number of
female graduate students
in Auburn's CSSE department is about 40 %.
When Harvard University president Lawrence Summers, himself an MIT
graduate in economics, suggested at an academic conference that there might be «intrinsic differences
in ability» between men and women
in math and science, a
female MIT professor walked out.
Andre Walcott, a
graduate student
in Ryabinin's laboratory, allowed male and
female prairie voles to form social bonds over one week.
«Male professors were described more often as «brilliant» and «genius» than
female professors
in every single field we studied — about two to three times more often,» said University of Illinois
graduate student Daniel Storage, who led the study with U. of I. psychology professor Andrei Cimpian.
Imposter syndrome is especially common
in female graduate students.
«Sometimes the
female will let a male start to mount from behind,» says Amy Parish, a
graduate student at the University of California at Davis who's been watching
female bonobo sexual behavior
in several zoo colonies around the world.
A British
graduate student says he's found a way to tell the difference between male and
female stegosaurs, and perhaps dinosaurs
in general.
The perpetrators are more prone to commit domestic violence when forced to move into a group with few fertile
females, said first author Matthew Zipple, a
graduate student
in professor Susan Albert's lab at Duke University.
Some black
female mathematicians who I've talked to have stories about their
graduate school experience that would make you think they went to school back
in the»60s during the Civil Rights Era, as opposed to today.
Out of about 100
graduate students, there was only one other black
female in the program and she was
in her 3rd or 4th year.
Researchers at the at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Graduate University (OIST) found that
in species where
females have evolved the ability to reproduce without males relatively recently, fertilization is still ensuring the survival of the maximum number of healthy offspring and thus males are still needed.
«As a powerful model system for studying adult stem cells, Drosophila
female GSCs have revealed many novel regulatory strategies which have been later confirmed to be generally true,» adds Su Wang, a co-first author of the paper and also a
graduate student
in Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at University of Kansas Medical Center.
Even with the ever - growing awareness toward problems concerning women
in science, a number of challenges still plague
female graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty.
A team of researchers led by Dr. Elliott Albers, director of the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience and Regents» Professor of Neuroscience at Georgia State University, and
graduate student Joseph I. Terranova, has discovered that serotonin (5 - HT) and arginine - vasopressin (AVP) act
in opposite ways
in males and
females to influence aggression and dominance.
Ami Radunskaya — a professor of mathematics at Pomona College, president - elect of the Association for Women
in Mathematics, and director of the national Enhancing Diversity
in Graduate Education (EDGE) Program — was chosen as the winner of the 2016 AAAS Mentor Award for launching «dramatic education and research changes leading to an increase
in the number of
female doctorates
in the field of mathematics.»
«We couldn't test the own gender bias without a
female version of this test,» said Scherf, who worked with Daniel B. Elbich and Natalie V. Motta - Mena, both
graduate students
in psychology.
In graduate school she realized how difficult it was for a
female to break into the boys» club of science.
«The extra copy of the Guy1 gene is only passed down to half of the progeny, leaving some
females among the mosquitoes that did not inherit the gene
in the next generation,» said Frank Criscione, who is the first author of the paper and worked on the project when he was a
graduate student
in the Tu laboratory.
Approximately equal numbers of women and men enter and
graduate from medical school
in the United States and United Kingdom.1 2 In northern and eastern European countries such as Russia, Finland, Hungary, and Serbia, women account for more than 50 % of the active physicians3; in the United Kingdom and United States, they represent 47 % and 33 % respectively.4 5 Even in Japan, the nation in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development with the lowest percentage of female physicians, representation doubled between 1986 and 2012.3 6 However, progress in academic medicine continues to lag, with women accounting for less than 30 % of clinical faculty overall and for less than 20 % of those at the highest grade or in leadership positions.7 - 9 Understanding the extent to which this underrepresentation affects high impact research is critical because of the implicit bias it introduces to the research agenda, influencing future clinical practice.10 11 Given the importance of publication for tenure and promotion, 12 women's publication in high impact journals also provides insights into the degree to which the gender gap can be expected to clos
in the United States and United Kingdom.1 2
In northern and eastern European countries such as Russia, Finland, Hungary, and Serbia, women account for more than 50 % of the active physicians3; in the United Kingdom and United States, they represent 47 % and 33 % respectively.4 5 Even in Japan, the nation in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development with the lowest percentage of female physicians, representation doubled between 1986 and 2012.3 6 However, progress in academic medicine continues to lag, with women accounting for less than 30 % of clinical faculty overall and for less than 20 % of those at the highest grade or in leadership positions.7 - 9 Understanding the extent to which this underrepresentation affects high impact research is critical because of the implicit bias it introduces to the research agenda, influencing future clinical practice.10 11 Given the importance of publication for tenure and promotion, 12 women's publication in high impact journals also provides insights into the degree to which the gender gap can be expected to clos
In northern and eastern European countries such as Russia, Finland, Hungary, and Serbia, women account for more than 50 % of the active physicians3;
in the United Kingdom and United States, they represent 47 % and 33 % respectively.4 5 Even in Japan, the nation in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development with the lowest percentage of female physicians, representation doubled between 1986 and 2012.3 6 However, progress in academic medicine continues to lag, with women accounting for less than 30 % of clinical faculty overall and for less than 20 % of those at the highest grade or in leadership positions.7 - 9 Understanding the extent to which this underrepresentation affects high impact research is critical because of the implicit bias it introduces to the research agenda, influencing future clinical practice.10 11 Given the importance of publication for tenure and promotion, 12 women's publication in high impact journals also provides insights into the degree to which the gender gap can be expected to clos
in the United Kingdom and United States, they represent 47 % and 33 % respectively.4 5 Even
in Japan, the nation in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development with the lowest percentage of female physicians, representation doubled between 1986 and 2012.3 6 However, progress in academic medicine continues to lag, with women accounting for less than 30 % of clinical faculty overall and for less than 20 % of those at the highest grade or in leadership positions.7 - 9 Understanding the extent to which this underrepresentation affects high impact research is critical because of the implicit bias it introduces to the research agenda, influencing future clinical practice.10 11 Given the importance of publication for tenure and promotion, 12 women's publication in high impact journals also provides insights into the degree to which the gender gap can be expected to clos
in Japan, the nation
in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development with the lowest percentage of female physicians, representation doubled between 1986 and 2012.3 6 However, progress in academic medicine continues to lag, with women accounting for less than 30 % of clinical faculty overall and for less than 20 % of those at the highest grade or in leadership positions.7 - 9 Understanding the extent to which this underrepresentation affects high impact research is critical because of the implicit bias it introduces to the research agenda, influencing future clinical practice.10 11 Given the importance of publication for tenure and promotion, 12 women's publication in high impact journals also provides insights into the degree to which the gender gap can be expected to clos
in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development with the lowest percentage of
female physicians, representation doubled between 1986 and 2012.3 6 However, progress
in academic medicine continues to lag, with women accounting for less than 30 % of clinical faculty overall and for less than 20 % of those at the highest grade or in leadership positions.7 - 9 Understanding the extent to which this underrepresentation affects high impact research is critical because of the implicit bias it introduces to the research agenda, influencing future clinical practice.10 11 Given the importance of publication for tenure and promotion, 12 women's publication in high impact journals also provides insights into the degree to which the gender gap can be expected to clos
in academic medicine continues to lag, with women accounting for less than 30 % of clinical faculty overall and for less than 20 % of those at the highest grade or
in leadership positions.7 - 9 Understanding the extent to which this underrepresentation affects high impact research is critical because of the implicit bias it introduces to the research agenda, influencing future clinical practice.10 11 Given the importance of publication for tenure and promotion, 12 women's publication in high impact journals also provides insights into the degree to which the gender gap can be expected to clos
in leadership positions.7 - 9 Understanding the extent to which this underrepresentation affects high impact research is critical because of the implicit bias it introduces to the research agenda, influencing future clinical practice.10 11 Given the importance of publication for tenure and promotion, 12 women's publication
in high impact journals also provides insights into the degree to which the gender gap can be expected to clos
in high impact journals also provides insights into the degree to which the gender gap can be expected to close.
Elena Tartaglia, a 2005
graduate who now teaches biology at Bergen Community College
in New Jersey, recalled one Campbell poem about worms that rhymed monoecious - which means an organism with both male and
female characteristics - with specious.