As the number
of female graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty grew, so did the need for a larger organization devoted to handling specific problems arising from gender issues.
According to Gilbert, the number
of female graduate students in Auburn's CSSE department is about 40 %.
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.
So new that no information is yet available on the ESA Web site is a special programme, New Opportunities for Women (NOW), which aims to boost the number
of female graduates at ESA.
To keep things simple, we focus on the decisions
of female graduates who are employed full time in the year following graduation.
Its figures show that while 63.3 %
of female graduates from full - time undergraduate degrees earn over # 21,000 three years after leaving university, this compares with 68.7 % of men.
Not exact matches
Just this week, a
female graduate student told me that post-graduation her only ambition for a job was one that gave her a feeling
of personal satisfaction.
There's lots
of women in MBA programs; there are more
female graduates in finance than ever before.
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.
Gouw spoke with me about why she's bullish on
female entrepreneurs, the scarcity
of women
graduating with engineering degrees, and the perception that women entrepreneurs lack for confidence and big thinking.
The figures
of 26 %
of boards now being women
of only 100 companies are still far too low when you consider 47 %
of the workforce and 53 %
of our
graduates are
female.
Interestingly, white males
graduate with the most debt
of any
of our subgroups, and white
females graduate with the second least amount
of debt.
The report found that the average wages
of young
female graduates are less than for male
graduates.
In Financial News» Special Report on Women 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.
The analysis was inspired by a separate survey
of these
graduates, which found that senior black
female graduates of HBS had about the same level
of career satisfaction, and similar feelings about the accessibility and opportunities they have for advancement, as black male Harvard MBAs who were only at junior levels
of their careers.
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, Ontario.
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Female Graduate in Cap and Gown Holding Stacks
of Hundred Dollar Bills Isolated on a White Background.
He requires a maximum
of 20
graduate students per university and requires 1/3 or 7
female students to be included.
The Department
of Justice estimates that between 20 and 25 %
of female college students will suffer rape before they
graduate.
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.
project, directed by Mason, the first
female dean
of the
Graduate Division
of the University
of California, Berkeley, found that women who had children within five years
of receiving their doctorates were far less likely than men who had done so to acquire tenured professorships.
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».
We asked five experts who could help us break down a typical shopping trip: Bon Appétit senior food editor Dawn Perry; environmental psychologist and author
of ** What Women Want: The Science
of Female Shopping ** Paco Underhill; architect and supermarket designer Kevin Kelley,
of the firm Shook Kelley; the director
of the
graduate nutrition program at the Institute
of Human Nutrition at Columbia University, Sharon Akabas; and efficiency expert Gwynnae Byrd.
The 2015 - 16 V Award Winner and
Female Athlete
of the Year has the focus to take this new trip to greater heights and the work ethic to continue to succeed with her father also
graduated from the role
of babysitter / referee and coach.
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!)
She is
female, state school educated and a
graduate of neither Oxford nor Cambridge.
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.
Sharon also attended a professional development course organized by the University
of Cambridge for
female graduate students and postdocs and built a small support network.
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.
I recently attended the wedding
of a male science professor at a prominent university and one
of his
female Ph.D.
graduates.
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.
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
Hoping to get a better sense
of why many people chow down after an hour at the gym,
graduate student Cátia Martins
of the University
of Surrey, U.K., and colleagues recruited 12 adult volunteers with normal weight and eating habits, half
of them male and half
female.
Meanwhile, says Rübsamen - Waigmann, CEOs need to realise that if 50 %
of graduates are women but only 15 %
of their workforce is
female, there is no way that that workforce is going to be
of the highest calibre.
«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.
«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.
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.
Led by
graduate student Alejandro Reyes, Gordon's team analyzed fecal samples from four sets
of Missouri - born
female identical twins and their mothers.