Even now, argues Ms Yalom, a professor at the Institute for Women and Gender at Stanford University, men get a better deal from marriage.
"The no-girls-allowed rule keeps women from accessing that power where they can conduct business and rise in professional development and create their own power networks, " said Veronica Arreola, assistant director of the Center for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Illinois-Chicago.
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During her visit to Japan, the Director-General participated in a symposium on gender equality in sciences and scientific education in the presence of Mr. Hideki Fukuda, the President of Kobe University - one of the oldest in Japan, as well as Professor and 2008 L'Oreal Prize Winner Ingrid Scheffer, Dr. Yoshie Soma, Special Adviser to the University President, and Professor Roumiana Tsenkova, Director of Gender Equality Office at Kobe University.
Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever: " Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide", Princeton University Press, 2003.
Prof Athene Donald, a physicist and gender equality champion at the University of Cambridge also feels a lack of role models is partly to blame.
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Karen Beckwith, who teaches gender politics at Case Western Reserve University, says Edwards' illness may cause voters to look at the presidential race in a new light.
Professor KAREN BECKWITH (Gender Politics, Case Western Reserve University): This offers Elizabeth Edwards and John Edwards the opportunity to emphasize issues of health care, of women's health, other issues related to women that may strengthen his campaign.
Her forthcoming book entitled Sex in the Office: A History of Gender, Power and Desire (Yale University Press) will be released in March.
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The UNESCO Chair on a priority programme area for UNESCO such as Gender Equality and Empowerment, at the University of Cyprus, aims to provide a new paradigm on how common problems faced by the populations of the region can be addressed through the gender perspective.
She lectures on women and war, gender and conflict, and human rights at Rutgers University.
University of Iowa law professor Peggie Smith says gender and race were underlying themes of the congressional debate.
The three facilitators from Walter Sisulu University are Adele Moodly for the session on gender policy, Phil Schneider for the communication policy session and Pete Gladwin, who will lead the marketing and creative community programming modules.
Mainly because law firms reward partners for bringing in new clients instead of retaining the ones they've got, says Joyce Sterling, a professor at the University of Denver College of Law who studies gender bias in the law.
With the exception of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, all education is gender-segregated.
Summers had a tense relationship with the university faculty, which erupted over his comment that gender differences explained why fewer women pursued math and science careers.
But Dr. Gager and her co-author, Scott Yabiku, associate professor of sociology at Arizona State University, Tempe, controlled the results for "gender ideology" and found the housework-sex link remained true, regardless of people's views on roles.
Not necessarily, said Rebecca Zorach, director of the Social Media Project at the University of Chicago's Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality.
The university could not then kick her off and cite protection from gender discrimination claims under the Title IX exemption.
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In a landmark study titled Boys Will Be Boys: Gender, Overconfidence and Common Stock Investment professors Brad Barber and Terrance Odean of the University of California, Davis, documented that men traded 45 percent more than women and ended up having their net returns reduced by almost a full percentage point compared to women.
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In the case, a jury found that Heather Sue Mercer, a kicker, was discriminated against by the Duke University football team, a program designated as a single-sex contact sport, for her gender when she was kicked off it.
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The civil unrest of the previous decade had finally settled down, the student body was growing larger and more diverse, the university had changed its applications process to a double-blind procedure with no special consideration for gender, race, or ethnicity, and research in medicine and the physical sciences shared space in the curriculum with philosophy and art.
At a recent gathering of students in the national medical school, King Abdul Aziz University, female students, several who were bare-headed, took pains to explain that the gender-segregated classes did not create problems for them.
Indeed, a study of gender and discipline at work, by Leanne Atwater, a professor at the School of Management at Arizona State University, and two colleagues, finds that women dislike being told off by another woman even more than men do.
Representing the university administration at the meeting was Melanie Boyd, director of undergraduate studies in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program and special adviser to the dean of Yale College and the student-run Women's Center.
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