Sue V. Rosser
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814776452
- eISBN:
- 9780814771525
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814776452.003.0004
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
This chapter describes the new set of filters that senior women scientists and engineers often encounter as they establish their careers, achieve tenure, and garner reputation in their profession. ...
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This chapter describes the new set of filters that senior women scientists and engineers often encounter as they establish their careers, achieve tenure, and garner reputation in their profession. Based on research, successful women scientists and engineers do not have the same access to space, awards, students, and perks as their male peers. Moreover, balancing career and family, gaining credibility and respectability, and low numbers stand out as major issues for women scientists. As such, senior scientists articulated policies for individual faculty, institutions, and the profession. Taken together, family-friendly policies, mentoring for junior faculty, followed by monitoring to ensure that the training is carried out, would improve the institutional climate for junior women.Less
This chapter describes the new set of filters that senior women scientists and engineers often encounter as they establish their careers, achieve tenure, and garner reputation in their profession. Based on research, successful women scientists and engineers do not have the same access to space, awards, students, and perks as their male peers. Moreover, balancing career and family, gaining credibility and respectability, and low numbers stand out as major issues for women scientists. As such, senior scientists articulated policies for individual faculty, institutions, and the profession. Taken together, family-friendly policies, mentoring for junior faculty, followed by monitoring to ensure that the training is carried out, would improve the institutional climate for junior women.
Sue V. Rosser
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814776452
- eISBN:
- 9780814771525
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814776452.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
This chapter focuses on the importance of advancing women scientists to senior leadership positions. Having women in top leadership positions in academic administration may constitute one of the most ...
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This chapter focuses on the importance of advancing women scientists to senior leadership positions. Having women in top leadership positions in academic administration may constitute one of the most effective ways to remove institutional barriers and change the environment for senior women working at a university in general and for senior women scientists in particular. Moreover, having women in significant leadership positions could provide a powerful mechanism to transform institutions to attract and retain more women scientists and engineers. The chapter then assesses the skills and experiences that women scientists and engineers have that overlap significantly with those required of successful presidents, particularly of public institutions. These skills include managing large number of collaborations, people, facilities, equipment, and budgets, which translate well to many of the major responsibilities faced by presidents of research institutions.Less
This chapter focuses on the importance of advancing women scientists to senior leadership positions. Having women in top leadership positions in academic administration may constitute one of the most effective ways to remove institutional barriers and change the environment for senior women working at a university in general and for senior women scientists in particular. Moreover, having women in significant leadership positions could provide a powerful mechanism to transform institutions to attract and retain more women scientists and engineers. The chapter then assesses the skills and experiences that women scientists and engineers have that overlap significantly with those required of successful presidents, particularly of public institutions. These skills include managing large number of collaborations, people, facilities, equipment, and budgets, which translate well to many of the major responsibilities faced by presidents of research institutions.
