^ PDF 36 pages
|
Mount St. Mary’s College is pleased to present the Report on the Status of Women and Girls in California. The state is home to over 18 million women and girls. While California women have made great strides in several areas — graduating in greater percentages than men from colleges and universities, expanding their ownership of businesses and increasing their survival rates for cancer — striking gender gaps still exist. Recognizing these gaps is the first step toward finding solutions. This report is an overview of the challenges facing California women in eight critical areas: poverty, education, technology, employment, leadership, physical and mental health, violence and incarceration. This report is intended for a general audience with the hope that its important findings will be helpful to policymakers, agencies, foundations and journalists, and those who are concerned with the status of women and girls. As a women’s college with a mission to serve and to lead, MSMC has an inherent interest in the forces that shape women’s lives. This report provides a snapshot of the environment California women face today, with hope of progress for the women of tomorrow.
|
^ PDF 97 pages
|
The White House Council on Women and Girls was created by President Obama in early 2009 to enhance, support and coordinate the efforts of existing programs for women and girls. When President Obama signed the Executive Order creating the Council on Women and Girls, he noted that the issues facing women today “are not just women’s issues.” When women make less than men for the same work, it impacts families who then find themselves with less income and often increased challenges in making ends meet. When a job does not offer family leave, it impacts both parents and often the entire family. When there’s no affordable child care, it hurts children who wind up in second-rate care, or spending afternoons alone in front of the television set.
In support of the Council on Women and Girls, the Office of Management and Budget and them Economics and Statistics Administration within the Department of Commerce worked together to create this report, which for the first time pulls together information from across the Federal statistical agencies to compile baseline information on how women are faring in the United States today and how these trends have changed over time. We believe that the information in this report is vitally important to inform the efforts of the Council on Women and Girls—and may be equally important in providing facts to a broad range of others who are concerned with the well-being of women and girls, from policymakers to journalists to researchers. This report provides a statistical picture of women in America in five critical areas: demographic and family changes, education, employment, health, and crime and violence. By presenting a quantitative snapshot of the well-being of American women based on Federal data, the report greatly enhances our understanding both of how far American women have come and the areas where there is still work to be done.
|
^ PDF 12 pages
^ PowerPoint 101 pages
|
Women’s College Coalition has embarked on a bold research agenda
March 2012
The Women’s College Coalition has embarked on a bold research agenda, the objective of which is to answer the question, “Why does the world need women’s colleges?” Hardwick Day and NSSE findings, and work the Coalition is doing with Linda Sax (author of The Gender Gap in College: Maximizing the Development Potential of Women and Men) are distinctive points in the research agenda.
The Coalition released new findings in webinars conducted in February and March 2012. We released the findings of our first Hardwick~Day Comparative Alumnae Survey in 2008. And while the world in which we work has changed significantly since then, the four key messages that came out of the 2008 findings, remain constant with the new, recently released findings.
Click
to go to the story behind this event, to view the video and download documents.
|
^ 11 pages
|
Women in STEM: A Gender Gap to Innovation
August 2011
Our science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) workforce is crucial to America’s innovative capacity and global competitiveness. Yet women are vastly underrepresented in STEM jobs and among STEM degree holders despite making up nearly half of the U.S. workforce and half of the college-educated workforce. That leaves an untapped opportunity to expand STEM employment in the United States, even as there is wide agreement that the nation must do more to improve its competitiveness.
Click
to open PDF »
|
^ 142 pages
|
Her Life Depends On It II
Sport, Physical Activity, and the Health and Well-Being of American Girls and Women
December 2009
This report is an update of the original report released in 2004. The overall framework of the original report remains intact here and all credit must be extended to the co-authors of the original report. Those individuals included Don Sabo, Ph.D., Director, Center for Research on Physical Activity, Sport and Health, D’Youville College, Buffalo, NY.; Kathleen E. Miller, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Research Institute on Addictions, State University of New York at Buffalo; Merrill J. Melnick, S.U.N.Y., College at Brockport, Department of Physical Education and Sport; and Leslie Heywood, Ph.D., Professor of English and Cultural Studies, S.U.N.Y.-Binghamton.
Click
to open PDF »
|
|
|
June 2007 marked the 35th anniversary of Title IX
-- the pivotal legislation credited with increasing gender equity in
sports. In addition to celebrating, the Women’s Sports Foundation unveiled
original research, entitled Who's Playing College Sports? Trends
in Participation. This study provides the most accurate and
comprehensive examination of participation trends to date. MORE
»
|
^ 28 pages
|
The Top 10 Myths about Women
On March 6th, CARE released the "Top 10 Myths about Women" in partnership with Smith, MIT's Poverty Action Lab and The Girl Scout Leadership Research Institute. The brief is designed to celebrate accomplishments on this notable anniversary and raise public awareness about the challenges that girls and women face around the world today.
Myth No. 1: “A woman’s place is in the home.”
Myth No. 2: “Girls can’t do math or science.”
Myth No. 3: “It’s a man’s world.”
Myth No. 4: “Women crack under pressure.”
Myth No. 5: “She asked for it.”
Myth No. 6: “Women can’t be trusted with money.”
Myth No. 7: “Girls belong in marriage, not school.”
Myth No. 8: “Women can’t lead.”
Myth No. 9: “A woman’s health is not a man’s concern.”
Myth No. 10: “Women’s empowerment comes at the expense of men.”
Click
to open PDF »
Helene Gayle, Barnard ’76, President and CEO of CARE USA, was recently interviewed by Rahim Kanani, Editor-in-Chief of World Affairs Commentary. To read the interview, go to Empowering Women and Girls Worldwide.
|
^ 32 pages
|
The Status of Girls in Wisconsin: A Report Update 2010
-Alverno College Research Center For Women And Girls
Like the 2007 Report (Click here to see the previous report), the purpose of this Update is to centralize the data focused on Wisconsin girls ages 10-19 and make it accessible to a variety of individual stakeholders, agencies, groups, and institutions who have the needs and interests of Wisconsin girls in mind. Similar to the Report, this Update was created with a deeper purpose in mind. It is our hope that the findings in this Update can help initiate more action, collaboration, research and programming that will ultimately improve the quality
of girls" lives in the State of Wisconsin.
Click
to open PDF »
|
^ 76 pages
|
Katrina and the Women of New Orleans
Katrina and the Women of New Orleans is a collaborative effort of the Gender and Disasters Research Group sponsored by the Newcomb College Center for Research on Women. The goal in writing this report was to analyze the ways the hurricanes of 2005 affected the lives of women and girls and to bring those findings to the attention of policy makers, community leaders, scholars, grant makers, and disaster managers. The ten chapters of the report focus on the pre-storm vulnerability and post-storm resilience of New Orleans women, and tackle the dearth of qualitative data specific to women to report on housing, employment and earnings, women’s physical and mental health, and domestic violence. It also considers how the recovery of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast can build upon the leadership of women to address the needs and include the contributions of women and girls. The Newcomb College Institute, including the Newcomb College Center for Research on Women, is a dynamic interdisciplinary academic center designed to enrich women’s education at Tulane University. Established in July 2006, the Institute supports undergraduate women at Tulane by providing academic and leadership programming, hosting speakers, symposia and international summits, funding student research projects, participating in community projects and fostering mentor and networking relationships with Newcomb alumnae and other community leaders. Click
to open PDF » |
^ 112 pages
|
2010 Portrait of Women & Girls in
the Washington Metropolitan Area
This report is the result of collaboration between Washington Area Women's Foundation, Urban Institute, the Institute for Women's Policy Research, Trinity University, the Girl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital, and countless community partners who shared their time and expertise. Two visionary community leaders encouraged us to think beyond traditional partnerships to provide qualitative data for the report: Pat McGuire of Trinity University and Jan Verhage, formerly of the Girl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital. Portrait Project 2010 begins to paint a portrait of the status of women and girls in our region today so we can take action tomorrow. Click
to open PDF » |
^ 36 pages
|
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
to open PDF » |
^ 134 pages
|
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
to open PDF » |
^ 16 pages
|
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
to open PDF » |
^ 122 pages |
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
to open PDF » |
^ 78 pages
|
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
to open PDF » |
^ 8 pages |
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
to open PDF » |
^ 454 pages
|
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
to open PDF » |
^ 17 pages |
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
to open PDF » |
|
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
to open PDF »
|
^ 133 pages |
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
to open White House Project Report PDF »
|
|
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
to open PDF »
|
 |
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
to open executive summary PDF »
|
|
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
to open PDF »
|
 |
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
to open PDF »
|
|
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.
MORE
»
|
WCC
|
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
Click
to open PDF »
|
 |
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.
Click
to open PDF »
|
 |
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..."
Click
to open PDF »
|
 |
Learn more about colleges!
The University & College Accountability Network provides profile
information on 42 of our members comparing several key factors in
college selection.
MORE »
|
 |
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
to key constituencies. MORE
»
|
