Inspiring Conversations with Women Professors

• Author : Anna Garry
• Publisher : Academic Press
• Release : 03 May 2019

Inspiring Conversations with Women Professors: The Many Routes to Career Success provides stories behind the many paths to professorship taken by these featured women. It includes information on their diverse life stories and how they navigated the beginning, middle stages, and other parts of their careers, including unexpected paths, support and how they got hooked by science/their field. In addition, they discuss why they chose this career, the obstacles they encountered, and how they found a way forward. Each

• Author : Anna Garry
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 19 January 2022

Inspiring Conversations with Women Professors: The Many Routes to Career Success provides stories behind the many paths to professorship taken by these featured women. It includes information on their diverse life stories and how they navigated the beginning, middle stages, and other parts of their careers, including unexpected paths, support and how they got hooked by science/their field. In addition, they discuss why they chose this career, the obstacles they encountered, and how they found a way forward. Each

• Author : Bilha Chesner Fish, MD
• Publisher : Hybrid Global Publishing
• Release : 21 May 2021

I’m so inspired by the journeys of these incredible women, especially Ilana Goor, a brilliant artist, designer, sculptor, and my dearest friend and creative inspiration. Women carry the weight of change on their shoulders; we create life, we problem solve, we persevere, we collaborate, we communicate, we make change in the world. I am excited for everyone to read Invincible Women, be inspired, and continue to share their stories.

• Author : Sherwood Thompson,Pam Parry
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• Release : 23 June 2017

Women faculty, their experiences, their assessments of the commitment that is made, and the standards that are in place, can determine if there is a sincere attempt to provide wholesome and nurturing working conditions in universities. We want to learn how women faculty perceives their personal and professional lives on and off campus.

• Author : Chiara Maritato
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 28 May 2020

A fascinating ethnography of the Diyanet's women sessions in Istanbul illuminating the current reconfigurations of Islam in Turkey.

• Author : Linda Beail,Sylvia Cortez Masyuk
• Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Release : 16 April 2013

Results May Vary addresses the unspoken assumptions and unquestioned expectations about what it means to be a Christian woman in a complex world. Far from offering a simple checklist or selling advice, this collection of essays weaves together a rich variety of voices--from women of different ages, backgrounds, professions, disciplines, and life choices--speaking honestly about the unexpected yet grace-infused twists and turns of life that exude the faithfulness of God in every unanticipated detail. For young women in their twenties

• Author : Ananta Kumar Giri
• Publisher : Lexington Books
• Release : 19 January 2022

In this work, the author issues a call for scholars of contemporary social history and practice to grapple with late modernity's most pressing social and political issues. He counterposes Western thought with Indian social theory across an array of Indian texts and ideas.

• Author : Mary Evans
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 24 February 2016

The second wave of feminism which challenged and changed many assumptions about the world in which we live was a product of various western cultures, with no single country possessing a monopoly on the writing of the texts that became the canonical statements of the 'new' feminism. Though many of the contributions to feminist scholarship that went on to become internationally significant hailed from Europe and the United States, these works were often formed within the context of local debates

• Author : Zohreh Emami,Paulette I Olson
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 29 August 2003

By the 1950s the percentage of all economic doctorates awarded to women had dropped to a record low of less than five percent. By presenting interviews with the female economists who received PhD's between 1950 and 1975, this book provides a richer understanding of the sociology of the economics profession. Their post-war experiences as family members, students and professionals, illustrate the challenges that have been faced by women, including both white and African-American women, in a white male dominated profession. Engaging and

• Author : Tin-Yuke Char
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 19 January 1977

• Author : Magdalena Tarnawska
• Publisher : Peter Lang Pub Incorporated
• Release : 19 January 2022

This book explores a shift in gender politics in Germany and Austria between 1870 and 1910 that was initiated by the struggle of middle-class women to gain access to higher education. Specifically, it investigates (pseudo) scientific, popular, and feminist discourses on the female body and sexuality in the context of public debates about medical education for women. The objective was to demonstrate how several female intellectuals attempted to negotiate new roles for women by responding directly to opponents of female education. Women's

• Author : Alex Wardrop,D-M Withers
• Publisher : Intellect Books
• Release : 17 July 2020

Frustrated by the lack of opportunities to research, create learning experiences or make a basic living within the university on our own terms, para-academics don't seek out alternative careers in the face of an evaporated future, we just continue to do what we've always done: write, research, learn, think and facilitate that process for others. As the para-academic community grows there is a real need to build supportive networks, share knowledge, ideas and strategies that can allow these types of

• Author : Long Chen
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release : 13 August 2020

This book gathers the author’s interviews with twenty leading sociologists from various fields at nine different prestigious universities in the USA, including their viewpoints, anecdotes and experiences in the world of sociology. Each chapter presents an interview with one sociologist, covering their views on contemporary sociology, their early university experiences, teaching experiences, experiences with publishing, and their reflections on life as a sociologist. Through the dialogues, readers can learn about sociology as well as sociologists’ lives in a unique

• Author : Freeman A. Hrabowski III
• Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
• Release : 12 November 2019

Arguing that higher education can play a unique role in addressing the fundamental divisions in our society and economy by supporting individuals in reaching their full potential, the authors have developed a provocative guide for higher education leaders who want to promote healthy and productive campus communities.

• Author : Alexis Krasilovsky
• Publisher : Praeger Publishers
• Release : 19 January 1997

An inspiring look at a new generation of camerawomen, this collection of 23 interviews is the first in-depth study of the courageous women who filmed on mountain tops, underwater, in war zones, and on Hollywood sets.