Sentences with phrase «woman professors»

We had very few women professors, particularly in the sciences, and for the most part they didn't have children.

Last year one woman almost started crying, because she had never seen a successful woman professor with children.

Meg Urry was the first tenured woman professor in the Physics Department at Yale University and was often the only woman in her physics classes, including her graduate class at MIT, but she still heard a fellow student complain that women were unfairly given advantages over their male colleagues.

Yet she continued her research, filling Pierre's position and becoming the first woman professor at the university.

She was only the second woman to achieve a doctorate in physics at the University of Vienna and the first woman professor of physics in Germany before she was forced to flee the country during WWII.

«Salk has allowed an «old boys club» culture to dominate, creating a hostile work environment for the Salk tenured women professors,» Lundblad alleges in her complaint.

In addition to numbers, the book is replete with anecdotal evidence for this stigma, including tales of departmental heads urging women professors outright not to have children.

When I look around, I don't see other women professors taking maternity leave (or even having children), which only makes me less inclined to ask for it.

The study said women professors lack sufficient female role models, may encounter a chilly campus climate, often meet unconscious bias (from both men and women), and, when they are primary child caregivers, can face problems balancing work and family — all issues raised by Summers in subsequent speeches.

► The authors hope this insight — that women professors do just as well as men do — will help attract more girls and women into math - intensive fields, pushing those fields closer to real gender balance.

Hopkins's sudden celebrity coupled with MIT's admission and an accompanying report are part of a new groundswell of concern about the status of women professors in the sciences.

On returning to Vienna in 1980, she became the first woman professor of painting in the German - speaking countries, holding the chair in this discipline at Vienna University of Applied Arts.

She co-founded the first law journal on the subject of gender equality, became the first woman professor tenured at Columbia university.

Spelman senior and computer science major Simone Smarr said she gained confidence about entering a PhD program from having women professors in her department.

The committee also interviewed each woman professor in depth.

In 2011 Tracey Emin was appointed Professor of Drawing, [10] and Fiona Rae was appointed Professor of Painting — the first women professors to be appointed in the history of the Academy.