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.
Spelman senior and computer science major Simone Smarr said she gained confidence about entering a PhD program from having
women professors in her department.
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.
(By the way, the term «climate refugees» was coined by Robin Bronen,
a woman professor in Anchorage.)
Not exact matches
In 2011, Timothy Judge and Daniel M. Cable, both
professors at Cleveland State, also explored the relationship between weight and wage, and they founds that «a
woman who is average weight earns $ 389,300 less across a 25 - year career than a
woman who is 25 pounds below average weight.»
«
In every other kind of job, attractive
women were preferred,» says Stefanie Johnson, University of Colorado management
professor, of the findings.
'' Promoting
women's entrepreneurship requires more than increasing the rate
in which
women start businesses,» said Donna Kelley, a
professor of entrepreneurship at Babson,
in a release.
In 2003, Tammy Kinley, an associate professor in the school of merchandising and hospitality management at the University of North Texas, measured 1,011 pairs of women's pants, and found that high - end retailers» clothes tended to fit more loosely than those in bargain store
In 2003, Tammy Kinley, an associate
professor in the school of merchandising and hospitality management at the University of North Texas, measured 1,011 pairs of women's pants, and found that high - end retailers» clothes tended to fit more loosely than those in bargain store
in the school of merchandising and hospitality management at the University of North Texas, measured 1,011 pairs of
women's pants, and found that high - end retailers» clothes tended to fit more loosely than those
in bargain store
in bargain stores.
The team of
professors conducted an online survey of 5,000 Japanese
women and men about their childhood relationship with their parents, asking them to agree or disagree with statements like «My parents trusted me» and «I felt like my family had no interest
in me.»
Aparna Sridhar, a clinical
professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of California Los Angeles, says that period - tracking apps are great ways for
women to understand their cycles better, but the information aggregated by them may not be 100 % accurate.
Research by business
professors Patricia Cortes and Jose Tessada shows a greater supply of such services allows more
women to join the workforce
in high - skilled positions.
This month, UC Hastings
professor Joan C. Williams penned an
in - depth article for the Harvard Business Review called «Hacking Tech's Diversity Problem,» where she identifies a number of the subtle systematic elements that lead to
women opting - out of tech roles.
According to research conducted by economist Alicia Robb, founder and CEO of Next Wave Ventures, and University of Hartford finance
professor Susan Coleman, men and
women differ
in the forms they adopt to raise capital, how much capital they seek, how much of that capital they procure, how much of it they spend and the ways they choose to spend it.
«The hormone factory is
in the ovaries, and there's no reason why steam would affect the hormones produced there,» Dr. Mary Jane Minkin, clinical
professor of ob - gyn at Yale School of Medicine, told
Women's Health.
«
In these professions, being attractive was highly detrimental to
women,» said Stefanie Johnson, a University of Colorado - Denver business school
professor and one of the study's authors.
Michael Bronski, a
professor of the practice
in activism and media studies of
women, gender, and sexuality at Harvard University, argues that the entertainment industry should get rid of the «Best Actress» category.
Entitled
Women Entrepreneurs 2014: Bridging the Gender Gap in Venture Capital, the study was conducted by Babson professors leading the Diana Project ™, a program founded in 1996 to research women - led businesses glob
Women Entrepreneurs 2014: Bridging the Gender Gap
in Venture Capital, the study was conducted by Babson
professors leading the Diana Project ™, a program founded
in 1996 to research
women - led businesses glob
women - led businesses globally.
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Professor of Management & Organizations, Executive Director of the Center for Executive
Women, Kellogg School of Management
Professor Sylvia Bashevkin, Principal of University College
in Toronto, wrote a compelling paper this year, «Assessing Urban Citizenship
in the Context of Municipal Restructuring: The Case of
Women in London and Toronto.
New research from HBS
Professor and MIT alumn Karim Lakhani finds that the best ideas
in InnoCentive's competitions typically come from isolated individuals, especially
women scientists.
As Harvard economics
professor Claudia Goldman said
in a 2016 Freakonomics podcast, plenty of professional
women,
in particular, not only prefer temporal flexibility to cash, they often leverage that flexibility into stronger careers.
I respect this
woman, that is God's work... that
professor... He doesn't believe
in God..
«We were reading about
women we'd never heard of before,» said Dushku, a Suffolk University
professor of government with an interest
in gender.
One day my American literature
professor told our class about Emily Dickinson, the quiet and reclusive
woman who was satisfied to live
in a circumscribed world
in Amherst, Massachusetts.
The
professor did not note that the
woman describing the «massacre»
in question said that she was Viet Cong
in the war.
A
professor of history once sat at dinner beside a
woman he had never met and did his best to engage her
in conversation.
What is new is that
women in the diaconate will be the explicit focus of a commission set up by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, that half of the theologians named by the Pope to serve on it are
women, and that a leading advocate for
women's admission to the diaconate,
Professor Phyllis Zagano of Hofstra University, is one of the members.
Robinson reminded us of the original, authentically neo-Puritanical Oberlin: The only college
in America at the time which offered a liberal education to both blacks and
women, and the place where everyone — including the
professors — both studied and did useful work.
Together with my response at the first
Women's Ordination Conference
in 1975 they also caused professional - political difficulties after my return as a tenured
professor from my sabbatical at Union.
She and
Professor Exum have written a second volume Miriam's Well: Stories about
Women in the Bible to be published by Delacorte
in 1991.
Harvard
professor Feldman: «Shariah, according to Muslims, is god's word on how you're supposed to live your life... as a general matter, shariah is what you make of it, and there are plenty of Muslims who interpret shariah
in a progressive way so that it's equal towards
women and progressive towards
women.»
At one point sending a Jewish student to a Russian university meant that his or her parents had to pay to send three non-Jews as well
In this country Jewish
professors are now commonplace, and many have become university presidents — two Jewish
women among them.
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.
Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen is
professor of psychology and philosophy at Eastern College
in St. Davids, Pennsylvania, and resident scholar at it Center for Christian
Women in Leadership.
By their interpretation of scripture,
women can not be pastors, and
professors who do not ascribe to scriptural inerrancy can not teach
in seminaries.
Excerpt — This ownership or possession of Muslim
women by the men
in their families was summed up best by
professor Shahrzad Mojab of University of Toronto as «the crude Arabic expression that «A man's honour lies between the legs of a
woman.»»
Like Gerlach, Heyward, who is
professor of theology at Episcopal Divinity School and one of the first
women to become an Episcopal priest, emphasized and modeled the importance of profound honesty
in the redemption process.
It is another — a hanging offense,
in my opinion — to grind the Bible down into propagandistic mush, as these
professors, associate
professors, and assistant
professors do
in The
Women's Bible Commentary.
The feminist exegetes give equally short shrift to pious Judaism;
in a commentary on the Book of Genesis, Amherst College religion
professor Susan Niditch dismisses the culture of the ancient Hebrews as one «
in which powerful
women are regarded with suspicion as unnatural and evil» (actually, the
women in Genesis seem quite the opposite, inspiring quite a bit of respect from their menfolk).
At the same time I found myself
in a context
in which (out of an admirable desire to honor their reading of Scripture) many of my
professors were actively discouraging of ministry for
women.
They might be further upset to read how Jane Schaberg,
professor of religious studies at the University of Detroit Mercy, interprets Christ's injunction against divorce as an open invitation for men to beat their wives; «Interpreted
in this rigid fashion,» she writes, «this prohibition bas... condemned
women and men to the alternative of an intolerable bondage or a life of isolation and sexual repression.»
In anticipation of the Ordinary Synod of Bishops on the Family (October 2015), we the undersigned Catholic women — scholars, professors, attorneys, physicians, writers, businesswomen, philanthropists, leaders of apostolate, members of religious orders, and others — wish to express our love for Pope Francis, our fidelity to and gratitude for the doctrines of the Catholic Church, and our confidence in the Synod of Bishops as it strives to strengthen the Church's evangelizing missio
In anticipation of the Ordinary Synod of Bishops on the Family (October 2015), we the undersigned Catholic
women — scholars,
professors, attorneys, physicians, writers, businesswomen, philanthropists, leaders of apostolate, members of religious orders, and others — wish to express our love for Pope Francis, our fidelity to and gratitude for the doctrines of the Catholic Church, and our confidence
in the Synod of Bishops as it strives to strengthen the Church's evangelizing missio
in the Synod of Bishops as it strives to strengthen the Church's evangelizing mission.
E. Joanne Angelo, M.D., is a practicing psychiatrist, an Assistant Clinical
Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine
in Boston, Mass., and a member of
Women Affirming Life, a Catholic pro-life organization.
North Park University
professor and popular blogger Scot McKnight says that «
women have done the bulk of the ministry
in the West for a long, long time.
From Ella: My Pastoral Theology
professor brought to the table a statistic that only 2 % of senior pastors
in Pentecostal churches are
women, even though the tradition has long allowed
women to serve
in high positions of ministry.
«[B] ecause
Professor Hawkins is the first African American
woman tenured at Wheaton College, the actions taken against
Professor Hawkins will raise questions about how Wheaton College treats minority and female
professors,» they wrote
in an open letter to Wheaton's president and trustees.
Beverly Harrison (
professor of Christian ethics at Union Theological Seminary
in New York) charges that «much discussion of abortion betrays the heavy hand of the hatred of
women.»
As a
professor at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, McKnight tried to avoid entering debates about
women in church ministry.
Dr. David M. Buss, a psychology
professor at the University of Texas at Austin, took an informal poll among friends and discovered that
women reacted to this late -
in - life parenting with a hearty «Go for it,» while the men he queried «furrowed their brows and said it was repugnant.»
Studying for his doctorate at Cambridge, he began to appreciate the scholarship of his female
professors, concluding that «anyone who thinks it is wrong for a
woman to teach
in a church can be consistent with that point of view only if they refuse to read and learn from
women scholars.»