Re-post: The Gender Divide in Academe

Re-posted from tengrrl:

THE GENDER DIVIDE IN ACADEME: Insights on Retaining More Academic Women http://t.co/qwvnV6kaZ4

Of interest:

• “Female authors are only half as likely as male authors are to cite their own research” (p. 16).
• A recent study “showed that female students finished college with lower self-esteem than they started with. Males, on the other hand, graduated with greater self-confidence (albeit lower GPAs) than their female peers” (p. 14).
• “[T]here are more than three times as many male full professors at doctoral universities as there are women in those ranks” (p. 12).