Sentences with phrase «more women faculty»

Not exact matches

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.

The authors found some differences between the genders in graduate school — for example, women were more likely than men to work with women faculty members — but «no clear disadvantages in the aspects of training environments that we can measure,» they write.

The 2005 report included responses from 88 of the 140 graduate training programs that were members of the ANDP and indicated that women comprise more than 60 percent of the graduate students in neuroscience but approximately 25 percent of tenure - track faculty, a number that has changed little since 1998.

Women move through the faculty ranks more slowly than men and, even when productivity is controlled for, achieve tenure more slowly than men do.

This is partly a result of the fact that, on average, men have attained a higher academic degree (42 % of female and 24 % of male faculty members have a master's degree as their highest) and partly a result of where they work (more women work at 2 - year institutions and colleges, where teaching is the primary mission).

Women S&E faculty members are far more likely than men to teach part time (40 % versus 25 % for men), and are also more likely to have fixed - term contracts — 54 % of women S&E faculty members were on a 1 - term or 1 - year contract, compared to 34 % of men, in 1993 (NSF, 1Women S&E faculty members are far more likely than men to teach part time (40 % versus 25 % for men), and are also more likely to have fixed - term contracts — 54 % of women S&E faculty members were on a 1 - term or 1 - year contract, compared to 34 % of men, in 1993 (NSF, 1women S&E faculty members were on a 1 - term or 1 - year contract, compared to 34 % of men, in 1993 (NSF, 1996).

Put another way: On faculties as on student bodies, the filtration of women out of academia is more effective the higher up you go.

The study shows that highly productive faculty members, both male and female, employ others to help with core housework at a higher rate than others — but women do it much more often than men.

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.

But an analysis published in Science in 1975 showed that none of Berkeley's faculties were biased; women had much lower overall success rates because they applied more often at faculties that were harder to get into.

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.

MIT President Susan Hockfield says the report, based on interviews with women faculty members, demonstrates the «stunning progress» MIT has made in hiring more women and increasing their job satisfaction.

Having more women in leadership positions on science faculty could also speed up the cycle, creating role models for girls and younger women.

And Dommond isn't alone: a faculty survey carried out by the Higher Education Research Institute found that 42 per cent of minority women in scientific disciplines reported subtle discrimination — far more than their white or male counterparts did.

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside and Indiana University have shown that women faculty members are doing more service work — primarily internal service — than their male colleagues, which may hinder their overall success in academia.

«We find strong evidence that women faculty perform more internal service than male faculty in academia and are essentially doing more than their fair share of «taking care of the academic family»,» Guarino said.

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.

And indeed, since 1994, the number of women faculty in the school of science has grown more than 50 %, from 22 to 34, as the number of men dropped from 252 to 222.

In order to have true salary equity, she notes, half of all women faculty must be getting paid more than half of the men.

More groups are going to bat for underrepresented minorities in science and engineering, the most recent being a Sloan Foundation pretenure faculty fellowship program, a National Academy of Engineering summit on women in engineering, and a new federal Commission on the Advancement of Women and Minorities in Science, Engineering and Technowomen in engineering, and a new federal Commission on the Advancement of Women and Minorities in Science, Engineering and TechnoWomen and Minorities in Science, Engineering and Technology.

A congressionally mandated committee is holding public hearings on the issue, a series of recent symposia have focused attention on the small number of female researchers, and faculty women and sympathetic male colleagues around the country are debating the matter more openly with administrators (Science, 11 June, p. 1757).

The Kuggie Vallee Distinguished Lecturer will give a public lecture about her own science and, over a period of several days, will meet more informally or in workshops with other faculty at the host institute to talk about women in science and career building.

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 close.

Active in ADVANCE, Lavine talked to more than 40 faculty candidates during their visits to WSU about promoting better work conditions for women faculty in STEM disciplines and about the faculty friendly policies already in place.

«The toll of these obligations is heavier on women and faculty of color who, given their fewer numbers at this rank (in many disciplines), are asked to serve more, advise more, show up more — and not just for their department and the university, but for their discipline, too,» Mathews writes.

McLaughlin speculates that higher education's pipeline to the presidency is also expanding as more women take on roles as deans and faculty, and as more institutions consider leaders from outside organizations.

A gaming conference planner in the US achieved a 50 % female faculty, and found out in the process that getting women to speak may be more difficult than bringing in men:

Based on what I glean from conference planners who have successfully gotten more women on their faculties, there seem to be two important steps to increasing participation by underrepresented groups:

Getting women on a tech conference faculty is not impossible, but it may be more difficult.

Here is another success story on getting more women onto the faculty of a tech conference.

From what I can tell from a quick tally of this year's faculty, there are more women (20 v. 15) and non-white speakers (6 v. 21) than I found in 2013.

Last year, for the first time ever, the ABA TECHSHOW faculty roster was comprised of more women than men; not to mention the plethora of women - owned companies and startups that participated in the TECHSHOW EXPO Hall and Startup Alley!

A quick recap of ABA TECHSHOW 2017 will show that this year's faculty roster had more women than men for the first time ever.

If these men and women have lost faculties, mobility, and other forms of independence, this means they are much more likely to lack daily affection and conversation, relational activities that keep us alive and motivated.