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Brittany L. Bronson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Despite the massive influx of new Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion roles created across the public and private sectors since 2020, there remains a glaring gap in research in this critical area. While existing research showcases the disparities that systems of oppression created for Black women, what's missing is research providing actionable…
Descriptors: Employed Women, African Americans, Women Administrators, For Profit Colleges
Harney, John O.; Swift, Jane – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2020
Former Massachusetts Governor Jane Swift became president of the education innovation organization LearnLaunch in July 2019. In 1998, Swift was elected lieutenant governor of Massachusetts. Three years later, when Governor Paul Cellucci resigned to become U.S. ambassador to Canada, Swift became the youngest female governor in U.S. history. Besides…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Higher Education, Educational Technology, Equal Education
Dom, Vannak; Yi, Gihong – Online Submission, 2018
This study is an attempt to explore the perceptions of the public on women in higher education and employment, using data from the World Value Survey, had 90,350 respondents, of which 48.03% are male (N=43,391) and 51.87% are female (N=46,878). This study indicated that women, younger people, upper class people, religious people, and married…
Descriptors: Females, Higher Education, Womens Education, Women Faculty
American Association of University Women, 2020
This is an update to the report "Deeper in Debt: Women and Student Loans." Americans today carry $1.54 trillion in student loan debt. That number has more than doubled over the last decade--increasing at nearly six times the rate of inflation. Women are particularly burdened, holding nearly two-thirds of all outstanding loans--around…
Descriptors: Debt (Financial), Females, Student Loan Programs, College Students
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Vryonides, Marios; Vitsilakis, Chryssi – Journal of Education Policy, 2008
This article examines issues relating to widening participation in postgraduate study programmes in Greece. It focuses on a group of mature women and examines their experiences from attending a novel postgraduate e-learning programme at the University of the Aegean. It presents findings from a study, which looked into mature women's decision to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Employed Women, Foreign Countries, Educational Opportunities
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Saralieva, Zaretkhan Khadzhi-Muratovna; Balabanov, Sergei Semenovich – Russian Education and Society, 2004
In connection with the changes in the structure of the work force that took place in Russia in the final ten years of the twentieth century and the increase in professional, intersectorial, and other kinds of labor mobility, the problem of the replacement and reproduction of cadres of top qualification (candidates and doctors of science) has come…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Qualifications, Occupational Mobility, Labor Force