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In STEM Careers Women Face Motherhood Penalty Long Before They Actually Become Mothers

7Sep

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EDUCATION

In STEM Careers Women Face Motherhood Penalty Long Before They Actually Become Mothers

Sarah Thebaud, University of California Santa Barbara and Catherine Taylor, University of California Santa Barbara The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Unfounded assumptions about how motherhood affects worker productivity can harm women’s careers in science, technology, engineering and math long before they are – or even intend to become – mothers, we found in a new study. It is well known that women are underrepresented in the STEM workforce, including in academia. For example, women constituted only 20% of tenured professorships in the physical sciences and 15% in engineering in 2017, despite the fact that their share of doctoral degrees in those fields has increased substantially in recent decades. We wanted to understand what might be cau...

Unemployment Is Up For Black Women As Hospitality And Retail Stopped Adding Jobs In August

4Apr

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Unemployment Is Up For Black Women As Hospitality And Retail Stopped Adding Jobs In August

Social Issues - Growth in the industries that had helped women regain jobs in the labor force this year ground to a halt in August, as the spread of the Delta variant drove business closures. Chabeli Carrazana Originally published by The 19th After months of adding jobs, the industries that have helped women return to the labor force — hospitality, retail and education — suddenly took a dip. The hospitality industry, one of the largest employers of women in the country, has been adding 350,000 jobs a month on average over the past six months. In August, job growth was completely flat. The entertainment sector gained 36,000 positions but food and drink services lost 42,000, according to the latest data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Friday. Similarly, the retail sect...

‘Black Women Being Trailblazers’: Spelman Faculty Refuse To Teach In Person As Classes Begin

24Aug

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EDUCATION

‘Black Women Being Trailblazers’: Spelman Faculty Refuse To Teach In Person As Classes Begin

Education Though vaccinations and masks are required on campus, concerns about COVID-19 protocols remain as the Delta variant rages through Georgia. Orion Rummler Originally published by The 19th Spelman College’s faculty council, the organizing arm for professors at the influential historically Black women’s college, told students on Thursday morning that they would no longer teach in-person classes, citing a lack of “clear and enforceable” safety guidelines from the school administration, per an email obtained by The 19th. Classes at the college began Wednesday. Spelman, located in Atlanta, is one of the first colleges or universities to feel this kind of pressure from faculty this fall after thousands of instructors at American colleges took a similar stand last summer. “Our pro...

At The Risk Being Ignored By Elected Officials Women Make Fewer Political Donations

13Aug

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POLITICS

At The Risk Being Ignored By Elected Officials Women Make Fewer Political Donations

Kira Sanbonmatsu, Rutgers University and Claire Gothreau, Rutgers University Candidates ignore female voters at their peril: Women have outvoted men since 1980. Census data shows that nearly 10 million more women than men cast ballots in the 2020 elections. But when it comes to another form of political participation – giving money to candidates – it’s men who take the lead. We found that men gave more money than women to candidates in statewide elections for executive offices such as attorney general and secretary of state, between 2001 and 2020. We found that men contribute more financially overall in statewide races, creating a large gender gap in political voice. This disparity exists in primary and general elections, across both political parties, and is seen in the most recent ele...

Melinda French Gates And MacKenzie Scott To Fund Women’s And Girls’ Causes – 3 Takeaways

25Apr

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MONEY, WOMENS ISSUES

Melinda French Gates And MacKenzie Scott To Fund Women’s And Girls’ Causes – 3 Takeaways

Tessa Skidmore, IUPUI and Jacqueline Ackerman, IUPUI Melinda French Gates and MacKenzie Scott, two of the biggest U.S. donors, have joined forces by funding the Equality Can’t Wait Challenge. The contest, intended to expand the power and influence of women in the United States by 2030, garnered more than 550 proposals. On July 29, 2021, French Gates and Scott announced the winners: Four initiatives will each receive US$10 million, and two more will get $4 million apiece. In addition to the women formerly married to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies is providing some of these funds. It marks the first official donor collaboration between French Gates and Scott. The money will help boost support for caregivers...

Why Fighting Everyday Sexism Enriches Men Too – And Why Women Need Male Allies In The Workplace

21Jul

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SOCIETY

Why Fighting Everyday Sexism Enriches Men Too – And Why Women Need Male Allies In The Workplace

Meg Warren, Western Washington University Women and groups advocating for gender equality are increasingly urging men to become allies in the fight. Research has shown that in the absence of male support, women have to shoulder the burden of battling routine workplace sexism such as misogynist humor and microaggressions on their own. This can lead to a sense of isolation, stress and exhaustion. But what difference can one un-sexist man make? My colleagues and I had a hunch that the actions of individual male allies – even through simple acts such as highlighting the strengths of female colleagues or checking in on their well-being – might serve as a counterweight to the negative effects of everyday sexism. But not only that, we decided to study how that might impact men as well. How to...

Trauma On Top Of Trauma: Why More Women Are Dying In Jails

4Apr

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Trauma On Top Of Trauma: Why More Women Are Dying In Jails

Jails, especially small and rural facilities, struggle to provide adequate physical and mental health care for women, experts say. Candice Norwood Originally published by The 19th Six years ago today, 28-year-old Sandra Bland was found hanged in her Texas jail cell three days after she was pulled over for a traffic violation and subsequently arrested. Bland’s death sparked national outcry over the abuses of the criminal justice system against Black women. Her story is also part of a larger trend of women experiencing rising incarceration rates and deaths inside jail facilities. Women are the country’s fastest growing incarcerated group, concentrated in rural counties. From 2008 to 2018, the women’s jail population grew by 15 percent while men’s decreased by 9 percent, according to f...

Why did women vote for Hitler? Long-forgotten essays hold some answers

19Jun

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POLITICS

Why did women vote for Hitler? Long-forgotten essays hold some answers

The rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party in the 1930s came on the back of votes from millions of ordinary Germans – both men and women. But aside from a few high-profile figures, such as concentration camp guard Irma Grese and “concentration camp murderess” Ilse Koch, little is known about the everyday women who embraced the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, known more commonly as the Nazi Party. What little data we do have on ordinary Nazi women has been largely underused, forgotten or ignored. It has left us with a half-formed understanding of the rise of the Nazi movement, one that is almost exclusively focused on male party members. And yet more than 30 essays on the subject “Why I became a Nazi” written by German women in 1934 have been lying fallow in the archives of the Hoove...

A Problem For Women’s Health – Too Few Women Get To Invent

2Apr

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VIDEO REELS

A Problem For Women’s Health – Too Few Women Get To Invent

Rem Koning, Harvard Business School MacArthur Genius and MIT professor Linda Griffith has built an epic career as a scientist and inventor, including growing a human ear on a mouse. She now spends her days unpacking the biological mechanisms underlying endometriosis, a condition in which uterus-like tissue grows outside of the uterus. Endometriosis can be brutally painful, is regularly misdiagnosed and misunderstood, and has affected Griffith’s life along with the lives of over 6 million other women in the U.S. Griffith’s research and inventions have the potential to improve women’s health dramatically. The problem for women is that she stands out for another reason: She’s female. In 2020, only 12.8% of U.S. inventors receiving patents were women, and historically male researchers have i...

It’s Just Casual Sex – Why Do Women Still Get Judged So Harshly?

27May

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SEX & RELATIONSHIPS

It’s Just Casual Sex – Why Do Women Still Get Judged So Harshly?

F. Scott Fitzgerald famously called the Roaring Twenties – which happened on the heels of the 1918 flu pandemic – “the most expensive orgy in history.” Now, as more and more Americans are vaccinated, some are saying all the sexual energy pent up over the past year will be unleashed, with Yale sociologist Nicholas Christakis predicting a summer marked by a surge in “sexual licentiousness.” Women, however, might face backlash for exploring their post-vaccination sexuality. In a new study, we found that women – but not men – continue to be perceived negatively for having casual sex. This stereotype persists even as casual sex has become increasingly normalized and gender equality has risen in the U.S. and much of the Western world. Specifically, both men and women assume that a woman who ...