As a top -
ranking woman in her field, Elizabeth is naturally surrounded by men who want nothing more than to see her fail, including two of her former associates (played by Sam Waterston and Michael Stuhlbarg) and a senator (John Lithgow) who is leading her interrogation.
Not exact matches
Of course, increasing the
ranks of
women in the life sciences has to begin with encouraging girls to get involved
in STEM
fields at an early age.
Other powerful
women in the
field have used their influence to pull
women up the
ranks.
Few have achieved such remarkable success
in as many different
fields as Davis has: she is not only an Oscar and Golden Globe winning actor, but a world - class athlete (at one time the nation's 13th -
ranked archer), a member of the genius society Mensa, and is becoming recognized for her tireless advocacy of
women and girls nearly as much as for her acting accomplishments.
This high
ranking is due
in large part to the College of Engineering and Computer Science and the School of Information Studies at SU that devote themselves to recruiting
women for these
fields at an early age and helping them feel comfortable
in a college setting and a STEM
field.
Out of 285 schools
in the nation, SU was
ranked among 64 «top performers» by the SR Education Group for
women pursuing degrees online
in STEM
fields.
Areas such as anthropology, on the other hand, had a lower emphasis on innate talent and a higher percentage of female Ph.D. s. Men and
women showed no difference
in how they
ranked their
fields.
The researchers honed
in on psychology because of all the scientific
fields they examined, it had the highest prevalence of high -
ranking women.
However,
women remain less numerous at senior
ranks in all
fields.
That's good news for Girlstart, which strives to bring gender balance to the
ranks of information technology, a
field in which
women account for only 12 percent of IT strategists, 16 percent of software developers, and 20 percent of IT managers.
The secretary's equally surprising pick
in the
women's
field is ninth -
ranked Princeton University.
From there, she began working
in the college
ranks, and by 2009 she became the first
woman to officiate an NCAA Division I bowl game when she took the
field at Little Caesar's Pizza Bowl.