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Keeping Sexes Separate

If a student or group requests a gender-segregated setup for religious reasons, does the university have a responsibility to accommodate?

How to Get Women on Panels

Study finds significant impact of having a female voice on the committees that put together scientific symposiums.

Failing the Female Coaches?

New report aims to hold individual athletic programs accountable for failure to hire female coaches on women's teams.

FAFSA, Post-DOMA

Responding to Supreme Court ruling, the Education Department will begin recognizing same-sex couples for the purposes of distributing federal financial aid.

Recognizing Pregnancy Absences

A college in Missouri updates its absence policies to add pregnancy-related absences as excused in response to a student's federal complaint.
Opinion

When Women Lean In, Men Grow Up

Janel Curry considers how increased gender balance in the administrative ranks affects all college officials -- and how some "team building" activities should be abandoned, just like male-only leadership teams.

Wrongly Accused?

A year after a university was accused of being tragically slow in responding to harassment concerns about a professor, it is now accused overreacting to questionable concerns about another professor.

Strategy for Women in STEM

One college unexpectedly found that female engineering students responded particularly well to its project-based learning approach. Experts say the curriculum could help attract and retain women in the STEM fields.