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Most Popular College Majors For Women

Watch out, liberal arts. Business ranks No. 1. ... "According to the most recent American Freshman survey, conducted annually by the University of California, Los Angeles, undergraduates' chief objective in life is to be financially well-off. For this new crop of college students, attaining wealth ranks higher than raising a family and becoming an authority in their chosen field. Moreover, they listed their primary factor in choosing a school program as whether the graduates get good jobs." Read more of this article by Jenna Goudreau.

Sexism is Alive and Well in Your Workplace

"This summer, as in the past, I have taken my daughter to work with me several times. My wife pointed out the difference in co-workers' perceptions when I do it versus when she takes our 9-year-old to work. (We're both college professors, so it's not a terrible inconvenience to have a kid playing on a computer while we write and analyze data in our offices). But, when I take my daughter to work, many people think it's cute. When my wife does it, it's "inappropriate" (as in "Why can't that woman manage her childcare situation?"). It started me thinking about other forms of pervasive sexism that occur regularly in the workplace." Read more of this article by Ronald E. Riggio, Ph.D. in Psychology Today.

Tips to Organize Your Work Life for Best Results

No one at the end of her life ever wishes she had spent more time at work. Yet most of us are furiously treading water just trying to cope with our rapidly expanding workloads.

To help manage the onslaught of information hitting us from all sides, a quartet of women from the University of Wisconsin-Madison offered some useful organizational tips during a presentation at the UW-Madison Women and Leadership Symposium held on campus in June. Read more of this article posted on the Women in Higher Education website.

Women Create New Rules for Campus Leadership

"Speaking to a group of women who are earnest about developing their leadership makes Pat Alea feel high as a kite. She expected 40 or 50 women to attend the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s second annual Women and Leadership Symposium in June, not the 300 who registered.

As keynote speaker for the event and one who’s worked on women’s issues for 35 years, she was delighted to address so many women claiming their authority.

“It’s a sidebar to the rest of my life,” Alea told WIHE. She has a private consulting practice in leadership, strategic planning and transition, chairs the Wisconsin chapter of the Women Presidents’ Organization and is a founder and co-manager of the annual Women’s Executive Leadership Summit in Madison WI. All of her activities promote women and their capacity to change the culture.

Rules for women’s leadership are changing. The old-old rules were to keep your mouth shut and defer to men. Most women have grown beyond that, though some organizations remain stuck there." Read more from the Women in Higher Education website.

In Her Own Words: Moving Heaven and Earth: Black Women in Admin Searches

Historically, those who have been deemed "comfortable" do not look like an African American woman, or anyone of color. "Will all of the qualified African American women PLEASE STAND UP?” Administrative search and selection committees would have us believe that if this question were asked in a room full of female African American professionals, only a handful would actually respond by standing. Read more of this blog post by Dr. Kim R. Barnett-Johnson.

Why women leaders are MIA from academic life

"I never doubted I'd "do-it-all." But the work-family conundrum took on new meaning for me several years ago when, in the middle of teaching a psychology course, I received a message that my oldest had been in an accident at school.

Not to worry, I was told: he was fine and in good hands. Steeling myself against maternal instincts, I continued teaching. Ironically, the day's topic was work and family. Then came the second message: "Your son looks worse than originally reported." Careful not to reveal the frazzled mother bubbling beneath my professorial exterior, I calmly excused myself, then frantically rushed my six-year-old to the E.R. with a head injury and concussion. He recovered faster than me."

Read more of this article by Tovah Klein from The Washington Post.