As noted earlier, there are fewer high - ranking
women faculty members at academic medical centers, so finding established women physician researchers to serve as mentors can be difficult.
Dr. Lattman most proud of having hired the first
women faculty members in the history of his department, and of being the principal investigator on the Molecular Biophysics NIH Training Grant awarded to Johns Hopkins.
The authors found some differences between the genders in graduate school — for example, women were more likely than men to work
with women faculty members — but «no clear disadvantages in the aspects of training environments that we can measure,» they write.
My top four resolutions are amplifying women's voices in meetings; calling out gender - biased practices and policies and pushing for redress (for example, through unconscious bias training); acting as a mentor, sponsor, and champion for junior women who are navigating early stages of their academic faculty careers; and
nominating women faculty members for awards and celebrating their accomplishments.
The program helps marginalized women students negotiate their way though academia and beyond by pairing them up with a University of
Toronto woman faculty member to help them with educational and career choices.
Last month, at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education, two researchers who
surveyed women faculty members around the country on their attitudes toward extended tenure summed up the problem in the title of their talk: Fear Factor.
As a
rare woman faculty member at Stanford Medical School in the late 1970s, neurobiologist Carla Shatz put her quest for tenure ahead of her desire to start a family.
«This has been a gnawing problem for too long, and something should be done,» particularly about the stagnant numbers of
junior women faculty members.
MIT President Susan Hockfield says the report, based on interviews
with women faculty members, demonstrates the «stunning progress» MIT has made in hiring more women and increasing their job satisfaction.
On his watch, all eight
women faculty members who were hired — five primary and three with joint appointments — got tenure, Frelinger says.
We now have seven
women faculty members (none in the underclass of instructors or sessionals) and, as of this year, five mathematical biologists.
* The number of
women faculty members is a bigger issue for biologists (0.23) than for those in any other discipline.
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside and Indiana University have shown that
women faculty members are doing more service work — primarily internal service — than their male colleagues, which may hinder their overall success in academia.
And from Black Mountain College [Asheville, North Carolina] Josef Albers got the position of director of Yale Art School but Anni was not invited to teach because there were
no women faculty members and no one was studying weaving at Yale.