by Kelsea Rounds | May 2, 2018 | Career
Twelve years ago, I (Jen) started my “dream job” teaching biology at a small liberal arts college. I wanted to be a professor ever since I took my first undergraduate genetics class with the professor who became my undergraduate mentor. She was...
by Kelsea Rounds | Sep 13, 2017 | Career
Women in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) encounter a variety of challenges—some related to gender, some not. While half of all Bachelor’s degrees in STEM fields are earned by women, women earn fewer STEM doctoral degrees than men, and most of...
by Kelsea Rounds | Aug 9, 2017 | Career
While men still receive a higher proportion of doctoral degrees across all scientific and engineering fields (53.8%, versus 46.2% for women ), this gap has narrowed since the mid-1980s. (There was a 31.4% gap in 1985.) In some fields, such as the biological,...
