Biological, Social, and Organizational Components of Success for Women in Academic Science and Engineering: Report of a Workshop

Biological, Social, and Organizational Components of Success for Women in Academic Science and Engineering: Report of a Workshop
ISBN-10
0309100410
ISBN-13
9780309100410
Category
Political Science
Pages
245
Language
English
Published
2006-12-08
Publisher
National Academies Press
Authors
Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences

Description

During the last 40 years, the number of women studying science and engineering (S&E) has increased dramatically. Nevertheless, women do not hold academic faculty positions in numbers that commensurate with their increasing share of the S&E talent pool. The discrepancy exists at both the junior and senior faculty levels. In December 2005, the National Research Council held a workshop to explore these issues. Experts in a number of disciplines met to address what sex-differences research tells us about capability, behavior, career decisions, and achievement; the role of organizational structures and institutional policy; cross-cutting issues of race and ethnicity; key research needs and experimental paradigms and tools; and the ramifications of their research for policy, particularly for evaluating current and potential academic faculty. Biological, Social, and Organizational Components of Success for Women in Academic Science and Engineering consists of three elements: an introduction, summaries of panel discussions including public comment sessions, and poster abstracts.

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