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Where have all the women gone?

Where have all the women gone?. “Unfortunately a lack of representatives to women in the sciences has meant that we have lost the talents of many outstanding women” Bruce Alberts President of the National Academy of Sciences. Women Status – Some Statistics.

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Where have all the women gone?

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  1. Where have all the women gone?

  2. “Unfortunately a lack of representatives to women in the sciences has meant that we have lost the talents of many outstanding women” Bruce Alberts President of the National Academy of Sciences

  3. Women Status – Some Statistics Women status in science - some statistics and facts. What are the explanations/reasons for this situation? Are there any solutions and recommendations?

  4. The Association for Women in Science (AWIS) embarked on the AWIS Project on Academic Climate, sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, to study the "climate" for women in science in academic institutions and to design solutions to commonly faced problems. They found many obstacles to career advancement for women scientists - a "chilly climate" indeed.

  5. Master's degrees awarded in S&E and non-S&E fields, by sex: 1966–2001

  6. Female share of S&E graduate students, by field: 1991 and 2001

  7. Doctoral degrees awarded in S&E and non-S&E fields, by sex: 1966–2001

  8. Women are lost from the pipeline

  9. Employed S&E doctorate holders, by sex and years since doctorate: 2001

  10. Marriage increases male salaries but has a negative effect on female salaries. Women are less likely to initiate negotiation for resources and when they do negotiate they make lower salary demands.

  11. Women are underrepresented in academia as a meager 23% of the workforce and are less likely to be tenured (AAAS, 2001). Women are not equally distributed across fields. Women are “lost” along the pipeline. Women in the life and physical sciences earn 23% less than their male counterparts. Women have made progress in terms of entering science, but they are less likely to join the tenure academic rank.

  12. What are the reasons for this?

  13. What are the reasons for this? • Personal career choice • No advising • No role models • Difficulty to combine family life and academic career • Women under rate their qualifications • Different priorities than men • Lack of collegial partners • Dual career • Overlap of tenure clock and biological clock

  14. Employment status of spouses of employed S&E doctorate holders, by sex: 2001

  15. So what can we do?

  16. Recruitment, hiring, and retention issues for female faculty Tenure and promotion policies Dual career issues and solutions Family and work concerns Communication channels for faculty Mentoring Networking Career development

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