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Female and Minority Chemists and Chemical Engineers Speak about
Diversity and Underrepresentation in STEM -
Bayer Facts of Science Education XIV:
Female and Minority Chemists and Chemical Engineers Speak about
Diversity and Underrepresentation in STEM
In a separate survey of 1,200 female and minority chemists and chemical engineers by Campos Inc., for the Bayer Corporation, two-thirds cited the persistent stereotype that STEM fields are not for girls or minorities as a leading contributor to their underrepresentation. Click
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Why So Few? -
Why So Few? Women in Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
The report, Why So Few?, supported by the National Science Foundation, examined decades of research to cull recommendations for drawing more women into science, technology, engineering and mathematics, the so-called STEM fields. Click
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Pipeline's Broken Promise -
The Promise of Future Leadership: A Research Program on Highly Talented Employees in the Pipeline
In The Promise of Future Leadership: A Research Program on Highly Talented Employees in the Pipeline, Catalyst set out to explore how the “best and the brightest”—high potential women and men MBAs for whom much was paid and from whom much was expected—have fared post-MBA. Companies pinned hopes on these highly trained graduates from elite MBA programs to help navigate through the white-water of the global economy. With the same prestigious credentials, one would expect these women and men to be on equal footing in the pipeline and their career trajectories gender-blind. What emerged, however, is evidence that the pipeline is in peril—one that, for women, is not as promising as expected. Click
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The Corporate Gender Gap Report 2010
Despite evidence regarding the importance of women’s economic integration and even as the global economy’s dependence on knowledge industries and knowledge workers grows, country-level data show us clearly that there are still discrepancies between the job opportunities and wages available to women and those of their male counterparts. Click
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International Trade Union Confederation Report -
Decisions for Work: An examination of the factors influencing women’s decisions for work
Despite advances in the role of women in society and the economy, women often still carry the most responsibility for childcare and household duties. Even though female participation in the labour market has increased, often they find barriers to combining work and family life, and do not have the same opportunities as men in terms of career opportunities. Click
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A Business Case for Women
The gender gap isn’t just an image problem: our research suggests that it can have real implications for company performance. Some companies have taken effective steps to achieve greater parity. Companies that hire and retain more women not only are doing the right thing but can also gain a competitive edge. They can take several basic steps to achieve even greater parity. These companies will be able to draw from a broader pool of talent in an era of talent shortages. What’s more, research shows a correlation between high numbers of female senior executives and stronger financial performance. Click
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The Shriver Report
A Woman's Nation Changes Everything
Earlier this year, the Center for American Progress decided to closely examine the consequences of what we thought was a major tipping point in our nation's social and economic history: the emergence of working women as primary breadwinners for millions of families at the same time that their presence on America's payrolls grew to comprise fully half of the nation's workforce. Click
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The Three Faces of Work-Family Conflict
The Poor, the Professionals, and the Missing Middle
The bottom 30 percent of American families try to get by on a median annual income of $19,000, earning less than $35,000 dollars a year. Their median income has fallen 29 percent since 1979 (in inflation-adjusted dollars). These families get few benefits from their employers to help manage work-life conflict and often hold jobs with inconsistent or unpredictable schedules that exacerbate these conflicts. Click
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Women, Men and the New Economics of Marriage
The institution of marriage has undergone significant changes in recent
decades as women have outpaced men in education and earnings growth. These
unequal gains have been accompanied by gender role reversals in both the
spousal characteristics and the economic benefits of marriage. Click
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The White House Project Report: Benchmarking Women's Leadership
Are
we there yet?
Much of the general public believes that women’s fight for parity
in the workplace has already been won. After all, women are solidly entrenched
in the workforce. Today, women receive the majority of all college degrees
and are well represented in entry- and mid-level positions in most sectors
of the economy. But equality still remains out of reach. in fact, women
have made strikingly little progress in advancing to the boardrooms and
the executive suites; Click
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Student Engagement & Study Abroad: Discoveries in Existing Institutional
Data
International education administrators are frequently in the position
of advocating for increased attention to study abroad with anecdotal evidence
and comparative statistics. Have we increased study abroad participation
during our tenure? How much? At what cost? How do we compare with peer
institutions? Our time is consumed with administering offices, programs,
and budgets; while simultaneously advising students, managing crises abroad,
conducting site visits and supporting faculty initiatives. Click
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Assessing Gender Differences in the Careers of Science, Engineering,
and Mathematics Faculty presents new and surprising findings about
career differences between female and male full-time, tenure-track, and
tenured faculty in science, engineering, and mathematics at the nation's
top research universities. Much of this congressionally mandated book
is based on two unique surveys of faculty and departments at major U.S.
research universities in six fields: biology, chemistry, civil engineering,
electrical engineering, mathematics, and physics.. Click
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The Status of Girls in Wisconsin
-Alverno College Research Center For Women And Girls
The mission of the report’s developers is to assist in this effort
by providing a scholarly and impartial, data-based profile of the lives
of young women and girls along key demographic, social, and economic dimensions.
Consequently this report is provided as a means for promoting discussion
of issues that arise from the data. Click
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A Tradition of Their Own
or, If a Woman Can Now Be President of Harvard, Why Do We Still Need Women’s
Colleges?
by Joanne V. Creighton, President, Mount Holyoke College, June 1, 2007
This paper or, a variation thereof, was delivered at Simon's Rock College
on March 24, 2007; Harvard Graduate School of Education on April 16, 2007;
Mount Holyoke Reunions I and II, 2007. It was also the basis for a May
21, 2007 op-ed in the Boston Globe. Click
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Celebrating America's Women Physicians
This exhibition honors the lives and achievements of women in medicine.
Women physicians have excelled in many diverse medical careers. Some have
advanced the field of surgery by developing innovative procedures. Some
have won the Nobel prize. Others have brought new attention to the health
and well-being of children. Many have reemphasized the art of healing
and the roles of culture and spirituality in medicine.
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Women’s College Coalition Literature Review
Spring 2006
Prepared by
M. Eugenia Verdaguer, Ph.D., Director, BIS Program, College of Liberal
Arts and Human Sciences, George Mason University
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Women's Colleges in the United States: History, Issues, and Challenges
by Irene Harwarth, Mindi Maline, Elizabeth DeBra
Comprehensive overview of the history of women's colleges, done concisely
in 43 pages with annotations.
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Inside the Clockwork of Women's Careers
by Carol T. Christ, President of Smith College
A Speech to the Chautauqua Institution, July 21, 2004
"...we only hear the story of anguished women, caught in a Procrustean
dilemma: shape your life in conformity to the clockwork of the male career
and you will sacrifice your hopes for marriage and children ... What can
colleges, and specifically women’s colleges, do to change the clockwork
of professional careers? Research shows that women’s colleges are
particularly effective in producing leaders..."
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Learn more about colleges!
The University & College Accountability Network provides profile
information on 42 of our members comparing several key factors in
college selection.
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Twelve Facts That May Surprise You About America's Private Colleges
and Universities.
This popular booklet [available as a PDF download] draws upon government
data to document the surprising -- and often counterintuitive -- ways
in which independent colleges are more affordable, diverse, and successful
than many people realize. This 16-page color booklet is a useful tool
for prospective students and their families, high schools, the media,
governmental leaders, and for private colleges and universities in presentations
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