Building Gender Equity in the Academy: Institutional Strategies for Change
Sandra Laursen, "Building Gender Equity in the Academy: Institutional Strategies for Change"
English | ISBN: 1421439387 | 2020 | 272 pages | PDF | 11 MB
English | ISBN: 1421439387 | 2020 | 272 pages | PDF | 11 MB
An evidence-based, action-oriented response to the persistent, everyday inequity of academic workplaces.
Despite decades of effort by federal science funders to increase the numbers of women holding advanced degrees and faculty jobs in science and engineering, they are persistently underrepresented in academic STEM disciplines, especially in positions of seniority, leadership, and prestige. Women filled 47% of all US jobs in 2015, but held only 24% of STEM jobs. Barriers to women are built into academic workplaces: biased selection and promotion systems, inadequate structures to support those with family and personal responsibilities, and old-boy networks that can exclude even very successful women from advancing into top leadership roles. But this situation can―and must―change.
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