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- Dartmouth graduated more women than men in engineering this year via TechCrunch
Dartmouth just became the first national research university to graduate more women than men in the engineering department. More women have been going into engineering in the last several years, according to the American Society for Engineering Education (AASE), and women made up 37 percent of the class in Dartmouth’s engineering school in 2015. But women tipped the scales this year at a whopping 54 percent at Dartmouth — 34 percent higher than the national average.
Women make up nearly half of the workforce, yet old-fashioned policies keep them unequal partners. To remedy this, we must first ensure basic opportunities—like making sure girls can get to school. It’s no secret that today’s economy continues to leave behind women, especially women of color, who should be one of the nation’s greatest economic assets. Women already make up nearly half the workforce, and as the nation as a whole bolts toward becoming majority people of color, women of color represent a growing proportion of those workers.
- U.S. Marine Corps To Make 19 Job Titles Gender-Neutral via the Huffington Post
The word “man” is being erased from 19 roles in the service. The U.S. Marine Corps will change more than a dozen occupational titles to make them gender-neutral as the military aims to integrate more women into combat roles. The decision, to be made official during an announcement on Friday, will remove the word “man” from 19 job titles. Roles such as “basic infantryman” and “antitank missileman” will become “basic infantry Marine” and “antitank missile gunner.”
Female job seekers are much less likely to be shown adverts on Google for highly paid jobs than men, researchers have found. The team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon built an automated testing rig called AdFisher that pretended to be a series of male and female job seekers. Their 17,370 fake profiles only visited jobseeker sites and were shown 600,000 adverts which the team tracked and analysed.
The United States Women’s National Team (USWNT) has spent the year since their record-setting World Cup victory celebrating in a unique way: fighting for U.S. Soccer to provide them with the same financial compensation, playing conditions, and travel arrangements as their male counterparts on the men’s side.
Donna Seymour, who hails from the (far upstate) North Country of NYS, has spent 40 plus years advocating for children, women and family issues, equity, sustainability, and social justice issues. Currently serving as the Public Policy VP for AAUW-NYS (the American Association University Women), she is also a member the League of Women Voters, the Equal Pay Coalition, PTA, NOW, and Planned Parenthood, just to name a few.