Two dispatches this week from the “is our girls and women learning?” wars. Elizabeth Weil writes about the nascent movement for single-sex education in public schools, and Christina Hoff Sommers takes on efforts to socially engineer the equal representation of women in science and engineering PhD programs. (Charlotte Allen’s “Women are dumb” doesn’t make the [...]
Archive for the ‘Women in academia’ Category
March 5th, 2008
Category: Academic Labor Market, Education policy, Evolutionary psychology, Feminism, Policy Analysis, Science and its methods, Women in academia
February 20th, 2005
Category: Women in academia
Half-time assistant professorships, with each year counting as half a year on the tenure clock.