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Although online courses at postsecondary institutions promise adults access, flexibility, and convenience, many barriers to online learning remain. This article presents findings from a qualitative case study, which explored the phenomenon of undergraduate and graduate women learners’ persistence in online degree-completion programs at a college in the Northeast of the United States. Research questions asked why women learners persisted or failed to persist, and how factors supporting or hindering persistence influenced learners. Interviews with a purposeful sample of 20 participants revealed the complexity of variables affecting learners’ persistence to graduation. Findings suggested that multiple responsibilities, insufficient interaction with faculty, technology, and coursework ranked highest as barriers to women’s persistence. Strong motivation to complete degrees, engagement in the learning community, and appreciation for the convenience of an online degree-completion option facilitated persistence.

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This handbook has been designed to assist educators, counselors, parents and students to identify and develop a plan to make student career decisions based on skills and talents regardless of the traditional assignment of such choices by gender or other societal restrictions.

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"The National Girls Collaborative Project™ newsletter seeks to support efforts in gender- and diversity-related issues surrounding STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). Members of the NGCP listserv receive information about the NGCP as well as information from other resources that may be valuable for STEM-related programs, including funding opportunities, resources, and upcoming events. "

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"Between 1980 and 2001, the number of women enrolled in degree-granting institutions increased by 41 percent (from roughly 5.5 million in 1980 to 7.7 million in 2001), while the number of men enrolled increased by 20 percent (from about 5 million to 6 million) (figure 1). Over this time period, the percentage of all undergraduates who were women increased from 52 percent to 56 percent. The attainment trend of women followed a similar pattern. Women experienced greater gains than men in the number of degrees awarded between 1980 and 2001. Over the last two decades, there was a 57 percent increase in the associate’s degrees awarded to women, and a 26 percent increase in the associate’s degrees awarded to men. In other words, women went from earning 55 percent of associate’s degrees awarded in 1980–81 to 60 percent in 2001–02. As with associate’s degrees, the number of bachelor’s degrees awarded to both men and women increased between the 1980 and 2001 school years, but the increase for women was greater. Women experienced a 59 percent increase in the degrees awarded over the two decades, compared with a 17 percent increase in degrees awarded to men. The percentage of 25- to 29-year-olds with a bachelor’s degree or higher increased from 23 percent in 1980 to 28 percent in 2003 (figure 2)."

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he latest report out of Internet traffic analysis firm comScore finds that there's a higher percentage of women than men using social networking sites. According to comScore's new report "Women on the Web: How Women are Shaping the Internet," 75.8 percent of women globally used social networking sites in May, versus only 69.7 percent of men. The report also found women were spending "significantly more" time on social networking sites than men, at 5.5 hours per month on average compared with only 4 hours per month for men. Among other findings of the report: the highest number of women using social networking sites are in Latin America, where 94.1 percent of females online are using those sites, and the lowest number are in the Asia Pacific region, where only 54.9 percent of women are using social networking.

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"It can be intimidating for women to learn and ask questions when they are in an extreme minority. While open and welcoming, today's budding developer community is up to 91% male. There isn't a comfortable place where women can learn at their own pace and not be afraid to ask "stupid questions." We decided it was time to provide a place where all questions are OK and everyone can learn in a supportive environment. Our courses focus on coding, leveraging existing technology, and having something to show for it (aka building sweet websites). We will be presenting these classes in four series:"

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"NEW YORK — It has been five years since Lawrence H. Summers, then the president of Harvard University, suggested at an academic conference that innate differences might explain why fewer women than men succeed in science and math careers. His remark sparked a firestorm that brought many changes — among them, Mr. Summers’s resignation and the naming of the university’s first female president, Drew Gilpin Faust. Although many top universities took action in the early 2000s to help women, especially women in science, Harvard, under Mr. Summers, had an unimpressive record. Tenure offers to women plummeted after he took office in 2001. While Harvard extended 13 of its 36 tenure offers to women the year before Mr. Summers became president, that dropped to 4 of 32 the year before his speech. And several departments did not have a single tenured female professor. Then, at a conference in January 2005, Mr. Summers delivered his now infamous remarks. "

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"JIDDA — Roughly two years ago, Rowdha Yousef began to notice a disturbing trend: Saudi women like herself were beginning to organize campaigns for greater personal freedoms. Suddenly, there were women asking for the right to drive, to choose whether to wear a veil, and to take a job without a male relative’s permission, all using the Internet to collect signatures and organize meetings and all becoming, she felt, more voluble by the month. The final straw came last summer, when she read reports that a female activist in Saudi Arabia’s eastern province, Wajeha al-Huwaider, had been to the border with Bahrain, demanding to cross using only her passport, without a male chaperon or a male guardian’s written permission. Ms. Huwaider was not allowed to leave the country unaccompanied and, like other Saudi women campaigning for new rights, has failed — so far — to change any existing laws or customs. "

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"SPOLAND, SWEDEN — Mikael Karlsson owns a snowmobile, two hunting dogs and five guns. In his spare time, this soldier-turned-game warden shoots moose and trades potty-training tips with other fathers. Cradling 2-month-old Siri in his arms, he can’t imagine not taking baby leave. “Everyone does.” From trendy central Stockholm to this village in the rugged forest south of the Arctic Circle, 85 percent of Swedish fathers take parental leave. Those who don’t face questions from family, friends and colleagues. As other countries still tinker with maternity leave and women’s rights, Sweden may be a glimpse of the future."

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"People around the world say they firmly support equal rights for men and women, but many still believe men should get preference when it comes to good jobs, higher education or even in some cases the simple right to work outside the home, according to a new survey of 22 nations. The poll, conducted in April and May by the Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Project in association with the International Herald Tribune, shows that in both developing countries and wealthy ones, there is a pronounced gap between a belief in the equality of the sexes and how that translates into reality. In nations where equal rights are already mandated, women seem stymied by a lack of real progress, the poll found."

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"A report from the Economist Intelligence Unit opens a window on the economic landscape that women face globally and highlights which countries offer the most and the fewest opportunities. The “Women’s Economic Opportunity Index” is a pilot effort to assess the laws, regulations, practices and attitudes that affect women workers and entrepreneurs. It uses 26 indicators, selected and validated by a panel of gender experts, to evaluate every aspect of the economic and social value chain for women, from fertility to retirement. By exploring the binding constraints that women face, it points to steps governments can take to improve opportunities for women and boost overall economic performance. “Countries have made good progress in leveling the playing field for women over the last few decades, but too many women still cannot exercise their full economic rights,” said Leila Butt, a senior economist at the Economist Intelligence Unit and research manager for the project."

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"CAIRO - Hoda Gameel is 22 and one of the millions of women in Egypt thrust by need and circumstance into the world of work. While the act of leaving home to work may have liberated some women in the past, Egyptian women have found no recognition and are fleeing instead back toward tradition. "I used to be ambitious, and I had dreams. Now I just want to get married and stay at home," Ms. Gameel said. "My only hope is to be able to rest when I get married." "

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"NEW DELHI - On blogs, Facebook and Twitter last month, hundreds of women across India shared their experiences as "Action Heroes" - facing up to sexual harassment on this country's sometimes terrifying streets. The event organized by Blank Noise, a community art project that fights the abuse of women in public spaces, focused fresh attention on "eve teasing" - the common euphemism for the hostility and violence women experience on the streets in large parts of India, especially in the more patriarchal north. "

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"NEUÖTTING, Germany - Manuela Maier was branded a bad mother. A Rabenmutter, or raven mother, after the black bird that pushes chicks out of the nest. She was ostracized by other mothers, berated by neighbors and family, and screamed at in a local store. Her crime? Signing up her 9-year-old son when the local primary school first offered lunch and afternoon classes last autumn - and returning to work. "

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"Share your thoughts about the most recent shifts in women's power, prominence and impact on societies around the world, as part of The Female Factor series. Click on one of the boxes below to participate in a conversation about that topic. The boxes are sized according to the number of comments posted about each topic over the previous 24 hours."

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"Sweden (1), Norway (2), Finland (3) and Iceland (4) once again top the rankings in the latest Global Gender Gap Report. All countries in the top 20 made progress relative to their scores last year – some more so than others. Latvia (13) and Lithuania (14) made the biggest advances among the top 20, gaining six and seven places respectively, driven by smaller gender gaps in labour force participation and wages. The Report covers a total of 128 countries, representing over 90% of the world’s population."

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We welcome essays that consider genders and sexualities in relation to artistic, semiotic, political, literary, social, ethnic, racial, economic, rhetorical or legal concerns.

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Scientists are likely not to be interested in thinking about housework. Since René Descartes, Western culture has stringently separated matters of mind from body. Housework is, however, related to the life of the mind. Scientists wear clean clothes to the lab (at least from time to time), eat food procured and prepared by someone, and live in reasonably clean houses. This labor used to be done by stay-athome wives. The single-earner wage of the 1950s, for example, covered the cost of unpaid services that wives performed. Now, housework is often done by wives and partners who are also full-time professionals—and the women we discuss in this study are scientists at thirteen of the top research universities in the United States. Findings from our study, based on data collected in 2006–07, show that despite women’s considerable gains in science in recent decades, female scientists do nearly twice as much housework as their male counterparts.

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"Decades ago, girls took fewer advanced math and science courses, and those who did posted lower scores. The old line of thinking seemed to say: Girls, who don't like math and aren't good at it, should shy away from those brainy courses."

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