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...foreign-language professors, finds that women take between 1 and 3.5 years longer than men to attain the rank of professor, depending on the size and nature of their school, with the largest gap at private colleges and universities. "That's a staggering difference," says lead author Kathleen Woodward, an English professor at the University of Washington. Worse, the lag time is getting longer. Women now earn more doctorates than men and make up a greater proportion of associate professors, but they're rising through the ranks more slowly than they used to: women promoted in the 1990s took...
...than did men (17.4), but that didn't make those women rise slower than their childless peers - just the opposite. Married moms moved up in 8.2 years, compared to 9.4 for married women without kids. "Women become highly focused when they have so many different things to do," says Woodward. "When I was an associate professor and had just had a baby, I knew when I had four hours to work on a project, I was really going to work on that project." (This theory of parenthood leading to more efficient multitasking also applies to fathers, who in the survey...
...Woodward adds that increasing awareness is key. "I'm not sure women are aware that they are being promoted later," she says. "I think (this report) can cause many women to examine their own behavior...
...people who are chosen to come to Harvard are very highly esteemed by their services” says Jean T. Woodward, the director of the fellows program. Former fellows include prominent figures such as Lieutenant General Karl W. Eikenberry, President Obama’s choice as the next U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan...
...bonds they’ve forged here and the understanding of what their civilian counterparts do have carried over and that’s really important,” says Woodward. “You can probably tell I have a pretty high opinion of the folks who come through here and am greatly admiring of what they...