Archive for the ‘ Gender ’ Category

Perfection or Having a Life

This past post ties in with the mommy vein as well, but more from a student perspective. Jon Morrow from On Moneymaking just did a guest post on Brazen Careerist about why he regrets getting straight A’s in college. He lays out pretty clearly what he did, what he got out of it, and why [ READ MORE ]

Moms Re-Starting Careers

I’m re-posting this as it goes along nicely with my previous article regarding moms and career decisions. Examining the Trend of College-Educated Women Leaving the Workforce I love research done by people who’ve heard a general, society-wide rumor and just have to know whether or not it’s based in fact. Sylvia Ann Hewlett (author of [ READ MORE ]

The Mommy Quandary

Possibly it’s just the negative effects of the Seattle winter doldrums, but I’ve noticed a large number of female parental units freaking out about careers lately. The at-home moms think they should be working, and the career-having moms think they should be home making play dough from scratch. It seems as though no mom is [ READ MORE ]

Smart Girls Are Hot

My daughter doesn’t have math homework yet, but I’ve already staked out helping her with it as my exclusive territory. Fortunately, my husband was a political science major, so he’s totally fine with “letting” me be in charge of all math and science-related aspects of our kids’ education. He will be in charge of teaching [ READ MORE ]

From High School Jocks to College Grads

Title IX gets a boost. For her master’s thesis at Brigham Young, Kelly P. Troutman looked at 5,000 high school girls in the National Education Longitudinal Study and found that girls who play interscholastic high school sports are 41 percent more likely to graduate from college than their counterparts. The athletes had the advantage of [ READ MORE ]

Women, College, Pay and Breadwinner Psychology

US News and World Report’s June 21st article College Majors Could Cause Women to Earn Less provided some revealing insights into reasons why women, one year after college graduation, earn 80% as much as men. [NOTE: The title of the article is strangely off, because according to the article, even when women choose higher paying [ READ MORE ]

College Boys Who Think Rape is Funny

We saw this story on feministing.com. Their attempt at “satire” was bungled to say the least. It’s good to know that the women’s Center at UCSD is holding a letter writing get-together about this[ READ MORE ]

Attending a Highly-Selective College Does Little to Boost a Woman’s Pay

For shame! Even Ivy educated women are earning less than men. Is it due to career choices? Nursing? Teaching? Counseling? How wide is the gap when they’re looking at the same profession? Here are some shocking statistics: A report released on April 23, 2007 by the American Association of University Women found that “women one [ READ MORE ]

Inequality in College Admissions

Scandals of Higher Education An article in the New York Review of Books and the book list that goes with it made me want to erase the admissions policies, guidelines, etc. at every institution of higher learning I could find so we can all just start over. If college applicants did not have to submit [ READ MORE ]

Dual Academic Careers

Do smarty-pants professor types feel they need a bigger challenge? Was defending their dissertation not enough? All of those years of undergraduate and graduate work, living somewhere near the poverty line, working and striving for those extra letters after their names? Why do obviously intelligent humans do this to themselves? Because they want to spend [ READ MORE ]