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Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 6:30pmSince 1960, when women only accounted for 39 percent of the undergraduate population, women’s relative numbers in college have steadily increased. According to Goldin et al. (2006), women are the majority of U.S. college students overall and they receive the bulk of bachelor’s degrees. This trend isn’t limited to the U.S. – in fact it’s prevalent in most rich countries. However, a shrinking gender gap in higher education has not had the same effect on the gender gap in the corporate world, a conundrum The Atlantic highlighted in “Why Isn’t Better Education Giving Women More Power?” In 2010, Forbes reported that of the 500 companies on their list only 15 were run by female chief executives. In other words, women only accounted for 3%....0 comments
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Sunday, November 2, 2008 - 11:25amNovember 1, posted by Linda Basch Today I bring you the third in our Swing State Forum, a series of posts in which I've been interviewing members of our network about the issues that matter most...
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Friday, October 31, 2008 - 12:22pmOctober 31, 2008 Posted by Linda Basch Below is my exchange with Susan W. Kaufmann, Associate Director for Advocacy at the University of Michigan Center for the Education of Women, where she...
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Friday, October 31, 2008 - 12:18pmOctober 31, 2008 Posted by Linda Basch Below is my exchange with Lisa McClain, Director of Gender Studies and an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Boise State University. In...
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Friday, October 31, 2008 - 12:15pmOctober 31, 2008 Posted by Linda Basch We all live incredibly busy lives. Often, we have time only to hear the soundbites or scan the headlines. Yet, with so much at stake, it’s...
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Friday, October 31, 2008 - 9:37amOctober 31, 2008 posted by Linda Basch I’d like to share my op-ed that appeared in the Huffington Post this week about the Wall Street meltdown and the question of how things might have...
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 - 4:28pmOctober 28, 2008. Posted by Linda Basch, President, National Council for Research on Women I'm pleased to share with you an op-ed I co-authored with Lisa McClain, Director of Gender Studies at...
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 - 4:22pmOctober 28, 2008. Posted by Vivienne Heston-Demirel Last night, a number of Council staff members attended the Feminist Press 38th Anniversary Gala Awards Dinner, where Senator Hillary Rodham...
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 - 4:19pmOctober 28, 2008 Posted by Amy Allina, Program and Policy Director, National Women’s Health NetworkWhen you scratch the surface of people’s worries about the problems their families may...
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Friday, October 24, 2008 - 2:04pmOctober 24, 2008 posted by Linda BaschI'm pleased to share with you the following exchange with Ruth E. Zambrana, Professor in the Women's Studies Department and the Director of the Consortium on...
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Friday, October 24, 2008 - 1:59pmOctober 24, 2008 posted by Silvia Henriquez, Executive Director, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health If Latinas had a “cafecito”* with each presidential candidate...
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