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...possible explanation offered by the study: "Women expect less and negotiate less pay for themselves than do men." Linda Babcock agrees. An economics professor at Carnegie Mellon and co-author of Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide, she points to a host of cultural factors that influence women's expectations and actions practically from the day they are born. As the founder of Carnegie Mellon's PROGRESS (Program for Research & Outreach on Gender Equity in Society), Babcock is developing ways to teach negotiation skills to women and girls. One such tool is the Girls Scouts' new negotiation...
...Rebetez, a Swiss art supplier and Herbert Matter’s brother-in-law.” Almost as soon as they were discovered, scholars began to question whether the works were really Pollocks.THE BATTLE CONTINUESIf anyone has stood at the epicenter of the debate, it is Ellen Landau, Mellon professor of the humanities at Case Western Reserve University. Landau has long been known for her work on Pollock—a Jan. 30, 2007 New York Times article describes her as “one of the world’s most respected Pollock scholars.”Landau...
...addition to her duties at Radcliffe, the multifaceted Faust serves on the board at Bryn Mawr College (where she graduated in ’68), the National Humanities Center, the Educational Advisory board of the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Lawrence R. Ricciardi, a trustee at the Mellon Foundation, worked with Faust as the organization moved between presidents. “Drew has been utterly fearless and highly principled in dealing with these issues,” Ricciardi says, “always without losing her sense of humor...
...talk about kids,” says Paul LeClerc, president and CEO the New York Public Library and a fellow trustee at the Mellon foundation. “Drew’s a devoted mother...It’s really significant in a highly successful individual...
...said that at first she felt like a “mad scientist” as she worked alone in an office without heating. Today Hyde has a new office and she said her organization has 250 girls in its program, over 80 volunteers, and a partnership with Carnegie Mellon University. “Once I took the leadership step of putting myself on the line, other people were also willing to put themselves on the line,” she said. With Felipe’s burritos in their hands, dozens of students, all women, had assembled in Sever...