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.
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.
Not exact matches
Amy Cuddy, a
faculty member at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, has conducted an experiment
with her graduate students demonstrating that holding an assertive body posture for as little as two minutes increases the amount of testosterone in the body, in men and
women.
These were the first steps in a journey that took her to Wisconsin (where in 1983 she earned a Master of Science in Food Science from Wisconsin University), Kenya (where she completed a two - year assignment, from 1981 - 1983
with Winrock International working
with limited - resource farmers) and California (where she earned her PhD in Microbiology from the University of California, Davis in 1994) before returning to Cornell CALS in 1994 as the first
woman faculty member in the Department of Food Science.
Over a 30 - year period, the percentages of ranked
women S&E
faculty members with doctorates at 4 - year colleges and universities has grown considerably decade by decade, but are still not nearly what the percentages are for men.
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.
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.
«We wanted to evaluate whether the absence of female
faculty members in physics departments is an appropriate measure of
women's progress in physics,» said Susan White, research manager in the Statistical Research Center (SRC) at AIP, who conducted the study
with Rachel Ivie, associate director of the SRC.
«We see this mild increase in Aβ42 in cells from patients
with Alzheimer's disease, which seems to be enough to trigger disease processes,» said Young - Pearse, a Harvard Stem Cell Institute - affiliated
faculty member at Brigham and
Women's Hospital.
Just make sure to check in
with your MD first: «Because every
woman is unique, it's difficult to make recommendations across the board, so consult
with your doctor before changing the timing of your birth control,» says ob - gyn Mache Seibel, MD, a
faculty member at the Harvard Medical School.
The University of Denver is committed to enhancing the diversity of its
faculty and staff and encourages applications from
members of historically underrepresented minority groups,
women,
members of the LGBTQ community, persons
with disabilities, and veterans.