Pierson had climbed the academic ladder to become the chairman of the History Department in the late-1950s and early-1960s.

It was not easy to climb Harvard's academic ladder.

This is how you climb the academic ladder.

His relationship with Ružička helped him climb up the academic hierarchical ladder.

And at each step on the academic ladder, more women than men leave science and engineering.

Over the years, Conant rose up the academic ladder, and in 1984, he was appointed clinical professor of dermatology.

As he moved up the academic ladder, a colleague enticed him to work in the relatively new field of phages.

The hierarchical differences point out that there are less women participation in stages of higher rank of either academic or industrial ladder.

He never scaled the academic ladder, but was a faculty star all the same.

Taking time out from teaching to raise three children in the 1950's meant that Clarenbach never climbed a conventional academic ladder.