Giving women equal opportunities to pursue — and thrive in — STEM careers helps narrow the gender pay gap, enhances women’s economic security and ensures a diverse and talented STEM…
Women make up the majority of nontenure-track lecturers and instructors across institutions, but only 44% of tenure-track faculty and 36% of full professors. Women of color are especially underrepresented in college faculty and staffs.
Women tend to borrow more for their education — and struggle more to pay it off — in part because of the gender pay gap.
Women hold nearly two-thirds of the outstanding student debt in the United States — close to $929 billion.
In 2014, two male administrators at VSU were appointed to faculty positions as associate professors. Spencer alleges that their salaries were vastly higher than those of female professors at all…
Anne Devan-Song, a PhD candidate at Oregon State University (OSU), faced sexual and gender-based harassment at the hands of fellow graduate student. OSU not only failed to address and resolve…
MaChelle Joseph is the former Head Coach of the Georgia Institute of Technology's women's basketball team, which she successfully led for 16 years. The university's athletic department, however, afforded Coach…
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Among Black students in higher education, women earn 64.1% of bachelor’s degrees, 71.5% of master’s degrees, more than 65.9% of doctoral, medical, and dental degrees.
