Category: Gender: HE Sector & Other

Why bias holds women back

In 2001, I became the first tenured female faculty member ever in Yale’s physics department. Throughout my 30 years as a physicist, being the only woman in the room has been the norm. Women fill more than half of the jobs in the U.S. economy

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Engaging the full potential of female middle managers

Last week I attended the launch of the research report: Focus on the pipeline – Engaging the full potential of female middle managers by everywoman and Alexander Mann Solutions, hosted by BBC Academy. The event brought together representatives from a variety of industries, and roles –

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Why Women Should Lead Boldly

For many years, we’ve known intuitively that having women in top leadership positions means superior organizational performance. Today, a body of data from prestigious research organizations documents the positive impact women leaders have on their organizations. Read More

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How Can Men Help Women?

As one of five men in a remarkable class of 40 people on Gender and Peacebuilding (http://www.usip.org/education-training/courses/gender-and-peacebuilding), I posed several questions to the women on how men can help women achieve greater involvement, participation, representation in the areas of governance, civil society leadership, and social

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Big Idea 2013: Flexibility Without Shame

The US economic recovery is tepid at best, with growth in short supply. At the same time, progress on gender diversity has stalled, with the number of women in senior roles plateauing. Solving the second challenge can help the first. Fully engaging women in the

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Gender and the Dual Career Academic Couple

In an effort to map the shape of the dual career challenge, the Clayman Institute for Research on Gender at Stanford University did a survey of 30,000 faculty at 13 universities. The study was headed by Londa Schiebinger, Andrea Henderson, and Shannon Gilmartin. When academics

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The Marriage Factor

Marriage appears to speed up the advancement of male historians but slow down that of female historians, according to new data from the American Historical Association. The new study by Robert B. Townsend, deputy director of the AHA comes from a survey of 2,240 associate

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Life as a Captive of the Job-Market

The academic job market is an exercise in captivity, and I am still its prisoner. To some extent I’ve ensured my place in this life by acceding to the terms of academe. I’ve defended my dissertation, and so I’ve unofficially transformed myself from Eunice Williams,

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