Higher Education

While women have made enormous strides in higher education, progress has been uneven. Women now receive a majority of undergraduate degrees but disparities remain, particularly at graduate, doctoral and post-doctoral levels. Colleges and universities still reflect inequities based on race, ability, geography and income. And more efforts must focus on advancing women and women of color into tenured and leadership positions with institutions of higher learning. There is growing concern about the rising cost of higher education and how to improve quality and access. The financial crisis of 2008-09 has shrunk many endowment funds and reduced the number of scholarships available as well as making state and community colleges more competitive and less accessible. The effects of corporatization on college campuses are also a source of concern for the quality and independence of scholarship, including for women’s studies and other inter-disciplinary programs.

Financial concerns of first-year college students have wide impact

Submitted by jmumbey on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 5:14pm

More first-year college students have concerns about their ability to finance college than at any time since 1971, according to the CIRP Freshman Survey, UCLA's annual survey of the nation's entering students at four-year colleges and universities. Such concerns are part of an overall picture of the impact of the economic downturn on the experiences of entering college students.

More than half of incoming first-time students in 2009 reported "some" concern about financing college, and more students were turning to loans to pay for college ? 53.3 percent in 2009, up 3.9 percentage points from 2008 and the highest level reported in the last nine years.

NCRW Fact Sheet: Immigrant Women--Access to Education

Submitted by Kyla Bender-Baird on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 2:33pm

Immigrant women face particular hardship in accessing basic educational opportunities due to a series of legal, social and cultural barriers that prevent them from exercising their civil rights. More efforts need to be focused at the local, state and national levels to ensure that their needs are recognized and addressed.

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application/pdf iconImmigrant Access to Education.pdf

NCRW Policy Brief: Education

Submitted by Kyla Bender-Baird on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 2:00pm

Despite gains in educational achievement for women and girls over the last decade, the gap continues to widen for low-income women and women of color. Access to education is key to women’s economic security and well-being. More vigorous efforts are needed to ensure sufficient support programs at the state and federal levels for low-income women and women heads of households.
 

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application/pdf iconEducation.pdf

NCRW Fact Sheet: Women and Educational Disparities--A Call to Action

Submitted by Kyla Bender-Baird on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 1:54pm

Today, women are more likely than men to attend college after high school, and are as likely to graduate with a postsecondary degree.  However, the gains made by women have not translated into earnings and higher wages in the labor market.

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application/pdf iconEducational Disparities.pdf

NCRW Fact Sheet: Keeping the Doors of Opportunity Open--Women, Minorities and Affirmative Action

Submitted by Kyla Bender-Baird on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 1:49pm

Women and girls have made enormous strides since passage of the Educational Amendments and Title IX. Recent cutbacks in funding or lack of funding coupled with anti-affirmative action ballot initiatives have placed these advancements in jeopardy. More efforts need to be focused on preventing erosion of these hard-won achievements.

Attachment: 
application/pdf iconAffirmative Action.pdf

Ticket Office Sexism: The Gender Gap in Pricing for NCAA Division I Basketball

Submitted by jmumbey on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 6:06pm
Member Organization: 
Wellesley Centers for Women
Date/Time: 
03/04/2010
Lunchtime Presentation
  
Laura Pappano and Allison J. Tracy, Ph.D.

 Location: Cheever House 

 For more details>>

 

DUAL-CAREER ACADEMIC COUPLES: WHAT UNIVERSITIES NEED TO KNOW

Submitted by jmumbey on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 1:31pm

Based on the partnering status of full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty in thirteen top U.S. research universities, Dual-Career Academic Couples explores the impact of dual-career partnering on hiring, retention, professional attitudes, and work culture in the U.S. university sector. It also makes recommendations for improving the way universities work with dual-career candidates and strengthen overall communication with their faculty on hiring and retention issues.

URL: 
http://www.stanford.edu/group/gender/ResearchPrograms/DualCareer/researchstudies.html
Member Organization: 
Clayman Institute for Gender Research

Thirty-Three Years of Women in S&E Faculty Positions

Submitted by afiorino on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 5:42pm

The relatively low proportion of women in academic science and engineering (S&E) has been the topic of numerous recent books, reports, and workshops. Data for 2006 show that women continue to constitute a much lower percentage of S&E full professors than their share of S&E doctorates awarded in that year. Even in psychology, a field heavily dominated by women, women were less than half of all full professors, even though they earned well more than half of doctorates in 2006.

URL: 
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf08308/

Medical women in academia: the silences we keep

Submitted by afiorino on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 2:29pm

There are more medical women today in academia as students, residents and faculty than ever before. However, a certain silence continues to dismiss the challenges they face in balancing career demands, family life, gender biases and harassment. This same silence continues to perpetuate a culture that is inhospitable to the retention of women in academic medicine.
 

URL: 
http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/reprint/167/8/877.pdf
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