Archive for the ‘Women in academia’ Category

March 5th, 2008

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 [...]

February 21st, 2005

Abolish it? Maybe.

February 20th, 2005

Half-time assistant professorships, with each year counting as half a year on the tenure clock.