A few years ago, Sybil Alexandrov, a senior lector II in the Yale Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ (FAS) Department of Spanish and Portuguese, had some questions about the university’s child-rearing ...

It’s been described as a “leaky pipeline.” Whether the issue is women faculty achieving tenure or women physicians becoming hospital CEOs, the closer women in academia and science move to the top, the ...

This article is the third in a series exploring tenure at Brown and in higher education. At Brown, 32% of tenured full-time instructional faculty are women, according to data from the National Center ...

This is part I in a two-part series about diversity in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Part II ran on May 8. Elsie M. Sunderland, an associate professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, has ...

A UCLA group created to fight for women’s rights before UCLA was even established will be celebrating its centenary this year. The UCLA Faculty Women’s Club is holding several programs for its members ...

Nancy Weiss Malkiel joined the Princeton faculty as an assistant professor in history in 1969, the same year that women were first admitted to Princeton on track to graduate. From 1982 to 1986, she ...

In spring 2022, Northwestern’s Organization of Women Faculty co-chairs decided they wanted the University to finally improve its work toward gender equity. So they did something about it. The ...

From the By-Laws of the Faculty Senate, By-Law VII., Item k., Par. 1-4: "1) The committee shall consist of nine faculty members elected by the Faculty Senate. No more than two members shall be from ...

The University’s Task Force on the Status of Women Faculty’s April 2023 report found that women faculty feel their service to the Brown community is “undocumented and, as a consequence, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Representation of women in medical school faculty improved between 1990 and 2019, according to study results ...

Research, including our own work funded by the National Science Foundation, shows that faculty workloads often differ by race and gender in ways that particularly disadvantage women of color. Those ...

Women and minorities have been overlooked and underpromoted by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, according to a letter written by eight faculty members who call for the return of former UNLV ...