After hearing about the Promotion Project on Rice's blog and in a webinar, Science Careers asked Rice what prompted the university to try and redress
the gender imbalance at the full - professor level, how successful they've been so far, and how young scientists elsewhere can benefit from the lessons learned.
Gender imbalance at energy firms and industry events is slowing transition to greener power, claims expert
Even accounting for Hochul, however, there is a huge
gender imbalance at the top of these councils.
Not exact matches
Pernilla Wittung - Stafshede, a professor and division head of chemical biology
at Chalmers University in Gothenburg, Sweden, was surprised when she returned to Sweden and found that there was still an
imbalance in
gender in the sciences in Sweden.
Hadley Mullin, a partner
at private equity firm TSG Consumer Partners, says the
gender imbalance in the investment community does not make sense — especially
at firms that invest in consumer brands, as women drive household spending.
According to W. Bradford Wilcox, the director of the National Marriage Project
at the University of Virginia, the
gender imbalance of the job losses in this recession is particularly noteworthy, and — when combined with the depth and duration of the jobs crisis — poses «a profound challenge to marriage,» especially in lower - income communities.
The article also looks
at the
gender imbalance in the overall news site audience (more men than women go to news / opinion sites) and lists the top (U.S.) online news sites.
The
gender imbalance could be seen
at a talk on Monday called Starting Small: what support do small - scale housebuilders need?
The Tories have the worst
gender imbalance of all major UK parties
at 21 %, with Labour on 45 %, the SNP on 34 % and the Lib Dems 33 %.
The
gender imbalance, however, is greater
at SMU than the national average, with only one woman to every four men.
We are also going to take a look
at how a hormone
imbalance affects each
gender separately, since the hormones that become
imbalanced in men and women defer; thus the symptoms, causes and treatment methods utilized to treat * such conditions also defer.
Thierry Frémaux, the fest's head honcho, always insists that he and his team have selected the best films made available to them and that any
gender imbalance reflects the lack of opportunities available to female filmmakers
at the production stage.
There are many factors
at play that impact on the existing
gender imbalance — societal expectations, family pressures, workplace culture and environmental barriers.
While the issue of
gender imbalance in the industry is not necessarily solved
at the level of education — in the US, only one in seven women with a STEM degree actually works in that field — ensuring that a more equal number of men and women possess technical skills
at GCSE level is certainly a start.
We have scholarships specifically targeted
at women to redress the
gender imbalance in STEM subjects.
Karen McLoughlin, the group director of HR
at Sumo Digital, talks about the company's
gender imbalance head on: «We've been working on internal initiatives to support recruitment, retention, career development and mentoring for some time which, alongside our graduate programmes, will help address the gap in the long term.
«It's important to notice how women are represented in exhibitions and other art infrastructures, and it's absolutely necessary to look
at raw numbers in order to grasp the
gender imbalance in any situation or context.
Perhaps she would have been frustrated by recent coverage of art world
gender imbalance — which often discusses the issue in those terms — as Web of Dreams, a selection of her paintings and works on paper, opened
at Alison Jacques Gallery.
Micol Hebron's recent (en)
Gendered (in) Equity: The Gallery Tally Poster Project
at For Your Art in Los Angeles visualized the realities of
gender imbalance in the art market on a grand scale.
Four women behind the first VNXXCAS award, helping to address the
gender imbalance in museum collections: Sarah Brown, Curator
at Leeds Art Gallery; Martine Syms, artist; Valeria Napoleone, philanthropist and collector; and Caroline Douglas, Director of the Contemporary Art Society.
This has led to a serious
gender imbalance in the population leaving the species precariously close to the point
at which sustainable reproduction will no longer be possible.
Despite the fact that the number of women in leadership roles in FTSE 100 firms has more than doubled over the last five years, according to FN's Sixth Annual Women in Finance Survey, there are still only 26 % of women
at board level, so there is still a notable
gender imbalance in the financial services sector.
All across the United Kingdom, increasing
gender diversity is a prominent focus for organisations, particularly
at the executive level where the
gender imbalance is most pronounced.
In the firm's defense, science and engineering already suffers a
gender imbalance, and 27 % of the firm's partners are female — a better proportion than
at most firms.
Rosemary's commitment to the promotion of women
at all levels impressed the judges, who praised her dedication to addressing
gender imbalances in the workplace.
The goals of this investigation were to examine: (1) relationship members» perceptions of the balance of work
at both the initiation and the maintenance stages of their relationship; (2) whether one
gender in heterosexual, romantic relationships is perceived as doing more of the work of relationship initiation and relationship maintenance; and (3) relational outcomes (e.g, satisfaction) associated with the perceptions of balance versus
imbalance in the work of relationship initiation and maintenance.