Stanford’s Clayman Institute for Gender Research has been named the “founding educational partner” of Lean In, a new nonprofit championed by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg that aims to create a global support system committed to encouraging women to pursue and fulfill their ambitions.
For Fishkin and other women in academia, however, balancing work and family life is an act that extends far beyond accruing degrees.
A recent decision by Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer ’97 M.S. ’99 to implement a ban on telecommuting—precluding employees from working from home—may have detrimental effects… Continue Reading »
Seventy-nine percent of declared HumBio majors are female, while women constitute 66 percent of declared IR majors.
Men still dominate Stanford’s math faculty. How much does it matter?