Despite earning more than half of all doctoral degrees conferred in the U.S., women are significantly underrepresented in faculty positions at colleges and universities. This is particularly true in tenure-track and tenured ...
Economics & Business
Sep 19, 2022
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During the COVID-19 quarantines, scientists, like most professionals, took their work home.
Social Sciences
Aug 12, 2021
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Could your name help you or keep you from getting a job?
Social Sciences
Jun 10, 2019
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Nine U.S. research universities and a major cancer institute today announced plans to give would-be life scientists clear, standardized data on graduate school admissions, education and training opportunities, and career ...
Social Sciences
Dec 14, 2017
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Women and underrepresented minorities have been actively recruited by universities for faculty positions in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields for some time now. Has this recruitment been effective? ...
Social Sciences
Nov 7, 2017
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For doctoral students studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics, landing a job as a research-oriented college or university faculty member typically requires having spent time as a postdoctoral researcher.
Social Sciences
May 5, 2016
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When all else is equal between highly qualified candidates for entry-level faculty positions, professors in academic science overwhelmingly prefer women over men, Cornell researchers previously found in national experiments. ...
Social Sciences
Oct 20, 2015
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The number of scientists in training vastly exceeds the number that will successfully land a faculty position at an academic institution. Now, researchers report in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on June 2 that an ...
Other
Jun 2, 2014
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In this month's edition of Physics World, Paula Findlen from Stanford University profiles Laura Bassi—an emblematic and influential physicist from the 18th century who can be regarded as the first ever woman to forge a ...
General Physics
Aug 29, 2013
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The retention rate of women in the biological sciences, both in the United States and Canada, is lower than would be expected from the number of female doctoral students who graduated within the last decade, and lower than ...
Social Sciences
Dec 11, 2012
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