Widely held gender stereotypes mean people tend to judge a company more harshly for ethical blunders if the CEO is female, say researchers writing in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. "When leaders are described in ways that reinforce stereotypes, we continue to find that people penalize female-led organizations more for ethical failures, but we can reduce these penalties for female-led organizations by highlighting agentic traits of their leaders," co-author Amanda P. Cowen, an associate professor of commerce at the University of Virginia said in a statement.
(Video) The University of Virginia announced on Thursday that it's raising the minimum wage for most of its contractors.
The University of Virginia has acted on its promise to extend its recent $15 hourly minimum wage to contract employees. The announcement, which the university made Thursday morning, means that contracted employees will get much-needed raises next year.
There are solid numbers that capture the current economic burden of the opioid epidemic. Estimating what it’s going to cost to fix the crisis is another story. “The notion of abatement is that we want to deal with the problem that exists, but also to begin to remedy it,” said Christopher Ruhm, a UVA professor of public policy and economics who worked for several years on a 30-year abatement plan for Oklahoma as part of that state's case against several drug companies.
A platform that connects health care organizations with community groups that are working to improve social determinants of health aims to improve area health and well-being. The UVA Health System purchased the technology-based referral network Pieces Iris, which is a cloud-based management platform that aims to help communities address social, economic and behavioral determinants of health.
The University of Virginia is moving its rehabilitation hospital from Fontaine Avenue to the UVA Research Park north of the Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport. Constructing a new building in the research park allows the hospital to expand from its current 50-bed facility.
A national survey of college students suggests changing attitudes in terms of sexual assault and misconduct on campus. Thirty-three universities and colleges took part including the University of Virginia, where there is rising confidence in how officials deal with the problem.
Philip Zelikow, a history professor at the University of Virginia, has written an article on Lawfare outlining exactly why the president is in both political and legal jeopardy.
On Wednesday night, the 32nd Virginia Film Festival officially kicked off, with its opening night screening completely sold out. Now, thousands of people will make their way to Charlottesville over the next five days for the festival, where filmmakers get to showcase some of their best work.
On the heels of Wednesday’s opening night gala, the Virginia Film Festival’s 32nd season will hit full speed Thursday with no last-minute alterations and a schedule full of films, features, panels and speakers.
Although the majority of Americans killed or injured in car crashes are male, the raw data masks the fact that females are actually at greater risk of death or injury when a crash occurs. And a 2019 study from the University of Virginia shows that for a female occupant, the odds of being injured in a frontal crash are 73% greater than the odds for a male occupant. That’s controlling for occupant age, height and body mass index, in addition to collision severity and vehicle model year.
Female CEOs are more likely to be held accountable than their male counterparts for ethical workplace failures, according to a new study. University of Virginia researchers wanted to explore how, if at all, gender influences consumer perception of an organization.
As the cost of college soars, schools across the country have begun scrapping tuition altogether. The University of Virginia waived tuition for residents whose families earn less than $80,000 a year.
University of Virginia announced Thursday that the University’s major contractors, working in partnership with UVA, are raising the wages of their full-time employees.
Contract employees working for the University of Virginia will see their base wages increase to $15 an hour, the same as most UVA employees, President Jim Ryan announced Thursday.
Mary Kate Cary, who teaches political speechwriting at the University of Virginia, said she’s noticed that pundits who bray about quid pro quo on television never actually define it. “They say, ‘We know there was quid. Was there a quo?’” she said. “And they start dissecting the meaning of the phrase without explaining the meaning of the phrase in the first place, and I imagine if you haven’t taken some Latin, that adds to the feelingof elites who are highly educated speaking in ways no one understands.”
A new study finds that even considering other factors, the walkability of a child’s neighborhood has a direct correlation to increased adult earnings. The study, by psychologists at the University of Virginia and elsewhere, looks at the effect of growing up in a walkable community on the economic mobility of children.
(Commentary) This brings me to my interest, and even excitement for, the University of Virginia’s “New College Curriculum,” a recently adopted approach to general education.
A teacher who was fired from a Catholic school in Indiana after he married another man was surprised to learn the federal government has sided against him in his private civil lawsuit in state court, saying it appears the Trump administration is trying to “politicize” his legal battle. UVA law professor Douglas Laycock said teachers with secular subjects, as Payne-Elliott did, have typically fared better in court against the schools and churches. He noted, though, the conflict is an important religious liberty issue.
Britain should block the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States on grounds that the prosecution is politically motivated and the charges against him amount to political offenses — two factors that by treaty would bar his handover, Assange’s legal team said Monday in a London court. … One British case states that to be considered a political offense “the crime must be specifically and immediately directed at ‘overthrowing or changing the government of a State or inducing it to change its policy,’” UVA law professor Ashley Deeks said.