“Getting the Ph.D. Was the Easy Part,” Renate Ysseldyk, Inside Higher Education, October 30, 2015, at https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2015/10/30/challenges-women-face-after-getting-their-phds-essay?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=a8edbeae52-DNU201510030&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-a8edbeae52-197618997
[Renate Ysseldyk suggests that women in academia still face significant barriers to career progress, especially shortly following the completion of their doctorates.]
“People Are Fighting Against Stereotypes in Academia With #ILookLIkeAProfessor,” Fiona Rutherford, Buzzfeed, August 11, 2015, at http://www.buzzfeed.com/fionarutherford/people-are-fighting-against-stereotypes-in-academia-with-ilo#.hxLO1wj98E
[The hashtag #ILookLikeAProfessor challenges stereotypes in academia. This article shows a sample of photographs and postings with that hashtag.]
“Geoghegan-Quinn to head third-level gender equality review,” Joe Humphrey, Irish Times, July 20, 2015, at http://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/geoghegan-quinn-to-head-third-level-gender-equality-review-1.2290386
[Statistics released by the Irish Higher Education Authority (HEA) in December 2014 revealed that 19% of university professors in Ireland are women. A review has now been organized to investigate gender equality, and reasons for gender inequality.]
David Cotter, January 9, 2015, in The Academic Minute.
[http://academicminute.org/2015/01/david-cotter-union-college-gender-inequality-trends/]
[In The Academic Minute for January 9, 2015, David Cotter, the Chair of Union College’s Sociology Department, discusses his research on trends in US attitudes towards gender inequality. From 1977 to 1994, attitudes became more egalitarian. However, from 1994-2006, this upward trend slowed and, at times, even reversed. Since 2006, a movement towards egalitarian attitudes resumed, although changes are slower than in the past. Cotter concludes that “the issue of gender inequality remains complicated.”]
The Academic Minute is a WAMC National Production.