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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Morenike Adetula '06 was trying to choose a concentration in her sophomore year, she was troubled that, at the time, she knew of only one female professor among the more than 30 members of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lundy, A. (2025) Faculty, yet Unrecognized: Black Women, Pedagogical Authority, and Everyday Surveillance in Higher Education. Advances in Applied Sociology, 15, 1191-1199. doi: ...