Women

$5 Million from NASA Supports Increasing Retention of Women in STEM

NASA will be giving over $5 million to seven women’s colleges and universities for research and development of strategies to increase retention of women in STEM programs and careers.

June 8, 2023

Agnes Scott College was among seven schools awarded funds from NASA to help improve the national gender gap and experiences of women in STEM.

Study: Undergraduate Women Majoring in STEM More Frequently Face Sexual Assault Than Those Outside of STEM

College women majoring in STEM fields more frequently experience sexual assault than those not in STEM, a recent Georgia State University study found.

March 21, 2023

Dr. Laura Salazar

Organizations Partner to Launch Historic Marker Program of U.S. Women’s Suffrage History, Dedicates Marker to Suffrage Leader Annie E. Jones

The National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites (NCWHS) and William G. Pomeroy Foundation are partnering for a historic marker program of U.S. women’s suffrage history in celebration of the centennial of the passing of the 19th Amendment.

October 18, 2022

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Minoritized Students, Already Stressed, Now Worry About Abortion

Experts worry that overturning Roe v. Wade may have an impact on the mental health of college students.

July 7, 2022

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Women Still Behind in Leadership Roles in Massachusetts Higher Ed Institutions

Women make up just 34% of all sitting presidents at Massachusetts’s 88 postsecondary institutions, climbing just one percentage point in four years.

July 6, 2022

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Liberty University Sexual Assault Case Lawsuit Reaches Settlement

A federal lawsuit alleging Liberty University of fostering an unsafe environment and mishandling sexual assault and harassment cases has reached a settlement.

May 16, 2022

Liberty University

Leadership & Policy

AAUW's CEO Gloria Blackwell: "There Needs to Be A Reckoning."

Blackwell is the CEO of AAUW, a nonprofit advancing gender equity through advocacy, education, and research.

April 22, 2022

Gloria Blackwell, CEO of the American Association of University Women (AAUW)

Wyoming Senate Votes To Stop Funding University of Wyoming's Gender Studies Program

On Friday, senators in Wyoming passed a budget amendment to end funding the University of Wyoming's gender and women's studies program. The amendment will now move to the House for consideration.

March 1, 2022

Wyoming Republican state senator Cheri Steinmetz

Celebrating Leading Women in Higher Education

Diverse presents 25 innovative and dynamic women leaders who are paving the way for others in higher ed.

February 28, 2022

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Leadership & Policy

The Broken Ladder - Where Are the Women Presidents at R1 Institutions?

Despite earning the majority of terminal degrees, women lead only 22 percent of the nation’s elite institutions.

February 21, 2022

Andrea Silbert, one of the lead authors of the study and president of the Eos Foundation.

Dr. Maya Angelou Becomes First Black Woman Featured on U.S. Quarter

January 11, 2022

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What Woman Want: Leadership at HBCUs

The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) gathered a panel of women in leadership at HBCUs to share their stories of success, their advice for future women leaders, and ways to create a pipeline for women to become leaders.

October 12, 2021

Dr. Roslyn Artis

Stepping Up to Support Women in Transition

As more women are displaced from the workforce amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, experts say transition programs could play a vital role in their return.

October 7, 2021

Dr. Cara DiMarco

Texas Could Lose Out On Skilled Workers Due To Restrictive Abortion Law, Poll Finds

September 2, 2021

Yale University Organizations Create Grant and Program Opportunities to Support Women Health Research

To bridge the research gap, Yale University affiliated organizations—Women’s Health Research at Yale (WHRY) and the Office of Cooperative Research (OCR)—recently implemented programs and grant opportunities to support women faculty and research on women’s health. Since its establishment in 1998, WHRY has provided pilot funds to researchers looking to study sex and gender differences in […]

July 29, 2021

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African-American

‘Influential Yet Unsung’ Civil Rights Pioneer Gloria Richardson Has Died at 99

Gloria Richardson, “an influential yet largely unsung civil rights pioneer,” has died at age 99 in New York City, reports The Associated Press. By organizing the the Cambridge Movement on Maryland’s Eastern Shore in 1962, Richardson became the first woman to lead a prolonged grassroots civil rights movement outside of the Deep South. The movement […]

July 19, 2021

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Roueche Center Forum: Toward Gender Equality in Technology Careers

COVID-19 has demonstrated that technology is a bridge to sustaining a degree of normalcy in our lives. Institutions were able to switch almost overnight to online instruction and services only because of advances in technology, showing how critical having prepared professionals to address world problems is. According to the 2021 study “Women Chief Technology Officers in Community Colleges” by Monica D. Wiggins, the prevalence of technology today requires skilled technology workers — more than ever before — to secure, design, maintain and upgrade an ever-increasing number of advanced technological devices and programs.

July 9, 2021

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‘I’ve Never Told Anyone’: Study Examines Why Sexual Assault Victims Remain Silent

Throughout the years, Dr. Sandra Caron and Deborah Mitchell began to notice a certain trend each time they spoke to classes about sexual assault. Directly after the discussion, or perhaps days later, a student would come forward and disclose their experience of being assaulted. More often than not, Caron and Mitchell noted, these students would use the following phrase: “I’ve never told anyone this but…”

July 8, 2021

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