Careers – Lily Lopez-McGee, PhD

Gender Bias in Hiring Practices

A colleague sent out a link to an article highlighting some disturbing results about gender bias in hiring practices in the corporate world. As I was reading it, it made me wonder – how does this play out in fields like education where women tend to be overrepresented? Are under qualified men considered differently thanContinue reading “Gender Bias in Hiring Practices”

Language Matters

Over the last several years, the discourse about the availability of language proficient professionals in the U.S. workforce has expanded beyond the international education community. Congressional members, heads of multinational corporations, and foreign policy experts have joined the dialogue giving a sense of urgency to a matter that has traditionally been viewed as an educationContinue reading “Language Matters”