Because women were new to the system, however, and very few were qualified for professorships, most professorships continued to be awarded to men.
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She was said to be too "theoretical" and lacking the managerial skill required for a regular fullprofessorship.
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For associate professors (fixed positions not automatically leading to professorships) the same was true with 7.5 per cent women.
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A state fundedprofessorshipwas called a chair, a cathedra.
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After this time, they have to compete for aprofessorship.
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Instructional plans included an appointment for a foreignprofessorshipof science, which did not materialize.
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Another important reorganization was an effort to restrict the number of professorships and a more general restructuring of the ranks.
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Schemes for national mining schools, and regional mineral professorships, met with uniform industrial and governmental apathy in the first half of the century.
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In this period her name was put forward twice for aprofessorship, unsuccessfully.
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Penn offered a good salary, tenure, and a promise of a fullprofessorshipwithin 2 years.
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While women constitute approximately 29 per cent of scholars employed by colleges and universities (winter semester 1999/2000), they hold only 9.5 per cent of professorships.
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New professorships, journals, societies, research groups, and industrial laboratories were founded, as chemistry gained complexity and experienced branching.
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It is self-evident that professorships should be granted to those who have the qualifications needed to hold such positions.
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But a college cannot decline to continue aprofessorshipwhich it has once taken over.
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Up to two months ago in all the 42 schools there was not aprofessorship.
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