阅读理解B What is the image of a typical female scientist? Perhaps you imagine a pair of thick glasses, messy hair and a few wrinkles on the forehead? With her high-heeled shoes and graceful posture, Yan Ning may
Underpinned by social identity theory and drawing on the concept of professors as academic leaders, this paper asks, what are the informal professorial leadership activities performed by female professors? Drawing on contemporary literature, it categorises the informal leadership activities of...
While they don't have required office hours, they're often called upon for their advice an counsel.Professors Only?The use of the title emerita in higher education reflects an expanding acceptance of the term in other fields. Today, even in the business world, the term emerita frequently ...
Officials at Reid Park Zoo in Tucson, Arizona, are celebrating the birth of a baby elephant. Zoo officials say the baby was born on Monday. It is a female, and she weighs nearly 130 kilograms. Semba, her mother, is a 30-year-old African elephant. The pregnancy lasted 22 months. Offic...
Many universities have adopted a “seemingly equal and gender-neutral” “stop-the-(tenure) clock” policy where both male and female professors can extend the tenure clock to account for the time they take for family needs. Such across-the-board policies that are seemingly equal in availability...
DUBNER: There’s research — I don’t know if you’ve heard about it, what’s called the “queen-bee syndrome” in which, in corporate settings and institutional settings, powerful women tend to be harder on female subordinates than on male subordinates. And I’m curious to know, whe...
Powerful new feminisms are challenging the rise of the Global Right through mass mobilization, demands for accountability, and innovative opposition, such as #MeToo, the Global Women’s Marches, and #Feminism4the99. The international forum Signs: A Journ
STROBER: I think the answer is that society — and I think this is still true — thinks that men are the supporters of their families. And so it makes sense to give them the best jobs, because they need to earn what used to be called “a family wage.” They need to earn enough ...
This emergence of conservative women has also made the Democratic Party aware of some of the challenging character traits possessed by many of their liberal female supporters. Most conservative women have a positive disposition about life, are married and love children. Even the Left understands why...
The literature committee, for example, sends out its own invitations for nominees, but other "qualified persons" are also welcome to submit names for consideration. Qualified persons include professors of literature or linguistics at colleges and universities, and presidents of national literary ...