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Carrie Odetta Graham – ProQuest LLC, 2018
In the past 10 years, diversity among students pursuing athletic training has increased significantly. However, diversity among athletic training education program faculty, particularly females across African, Latinx, and Asian Diasporas (ALA Diasporas), lags student diversity. Diverse females are underrepresented among tenured faculty and have…
Descriptors: Females, Women Faculty, Athletics, Trainers
Trefts, Shannon – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Vastly underrepresented in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) industries, women make up less than one-quarter of the nation's STEM workforce (United States Department of Commerce, 2017). In particular, women who are the first in their families to attend college are alarmingly less present within STEM disciplines than those whose…
Descriptors: Females, STEM Education, Womens Education, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Thorpe, Crystal – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this study was to explore how African American female principals leading predominantly White schools experienced their leadership role and to provide a narrative of those findings identifying barriers and successes in their position. Numerous scholars have noted a lack of research pertaining to African American women in leadership…
Descriptors: Women Administrators, Females, African Americans, Principals
Johnson, O'Rita – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Female students continue to lag behind their male counterparts in STEM degree attainment despite performing as well as boys in mathematics and science in high school. Female students who expressed interest in mathematics and science may opt out of majoring in STEM once in college. Given that women may not be perceived as mathematics doers, this…
Descriptors: Females, STEM Education, Gender Differences, Student Interests
Wilkins-Langie, Rosa G. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
In the last three decades, there has been a growing concern regarding the dearth of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) degree attainment for women. Women are considered the untapped resource with an affinity towards STEM fields; however, they tend to be absent in higher education commencements across the country. After nearly…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Females, Educational Attainment, Higher Education
Mahady, Christine – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Institutions of higher education have a glass ceiling: women are underrepresented in the college presidency with 30% of college presidents as women, 83% white and 17% women of color. By nature, the culture of higher education has been traditionally male centered, with female professors and researchers struggling to advance in their careers.…
Descriptors: College Administration, Women Administrators, Disproportionate Representation, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Luzynski, Cheyenne – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The implementation of Title IX has increased women's participation rates in intercollegiate athletics tenfold, yet women's representation in athletic leadership remains marginal compared to men. As such, the purpose of this study was to understand the social construction of gender as it relates to intercollegiate athletic leadership at Eastern…
Descriptors: Females, College Athletics, Student Participation, Disproportionate Representation
Holl, David – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Within Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) careers fields, the representation of women remains at an inequitable level when compared to men and to women's representation in other professions. Given the current state of women representing 52% of the professional and management-related workforce (U.S. Bureau of Labor and…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Career Choice, Females, Disproportionate Representation
Jewett, Elizabeth C. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The United States must expand the STEM pipeline in order to meet the growing demand of the STEM workforce and maintain our nation's prosperity and competitiveness in the global economy. The urgency of this need has been proclaimed by policymakers, business leaders, politicians, and educators. Despite the growing demand for STEM professionals,…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Gender Bias, Racial Bias, Ethnicity
Wilson, Jessica Alyce – ProQuest LLC, 2018
In this inquiry I used Black Feminist Thought as the interpretive lens to investigate the characterizations and experiences of high achieving Black women undergraduate engineering and mathematics majors at a predominantly white institution. The qualitative inquiry considered intersecting oppressions to evaluate the experiences of this population.…
Descriptors: Females, African American Students, Engineering Education, Mathematics Education
Reed, Sabrina Denise Rohr – ProQuest LLC, 2018
In 1972, Title IX was implemented to provide males and females equal opportunities in public education. However, since this time, the percentage of female collegiate head coaches of female sports has decreased from 90% to 42%. The specific problem examined is the underrepresentation of females in head coaching positions in collegiate athletics,…
Descriptors: Females, Athletic Coaches, Disproportionate Representation, Family Work Relationship
Tieszen, Pamela K. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This phenomenological qualitative research study investigated Mennonite women with experience leading Mennonite high schools across the United States and Canada during their first year serving in the role of principal. This study gives voice to 12 Mennonite women leaders who felt God's "call" to lead. Women leaders encountered bias due…
Descriptors: Females, Women Administrators, Religious Cultural Groups, Religious Education
Castro, Athena R. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Previous studies focused on women of color in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields have effectively neglected Asian American women because Asian Americans are well represented in STEM fields. Reflective of the invisible and model minority stereotypes, Asian Americans are often cast as high-achieving students, irrelevant…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Asian American Students, Females, Graduate Students
Dutilly, Erik Keith – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The U.S. government, including the National Science Foundation (NSF), makes significant investments in the upcoming generation of scientists and researchers through undergraduate research programs (UR) and internships. These programs are thought to motivate students to finish STEM degrees and provide authentic training under the mentorship of…
Descriptors: Student Recruitment, Admission Criteria, STEM Education, Research Projects
Krause, Susan Faye – ProQuest LLC, 2017
In 2014, statisticians at the Bureau of Labor Statistics found that women constitute 45% of the workforce. Women's participation in high-level organizational leadership roles remains low. In higher education, women's representation in top-ranking leadership roles is less than one-third at colleges and universities. The conceptual framework for…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, Females, Women Administrators, Leadership