Tag archive for ‘career progression’
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WiGS founding member Joanna Kelley receives L’Oreal Women in Science fellowship
Dr. Joanna Kelley, a genome sciences alumna who contributed to the formation of Women in Genome Sciences, is one of five early career scientists to earn the 2012 L’Oreal Women in Science Fellowship. Since finishing her Ph.D. work in Willie Swanson’s lab, Joanna has done postdoctoral work with Molly Przeworski at University of Chicago and [...]
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Work-Life Balance Is Out of Reach for Many Male and Female Scientists
Both men and women in science are affected by issues related to work-life balance, a new survey says. “More than half of the survey’s 4,225 respondents said work demands conflict with their personal lives at least two to three times a week,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports, citing data from the Association for Women [...]
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NSF Study on Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering
Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering provides statistical information about the participation of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities in science and engineering education and employment. A formal report, now in the form of a digest, is issued every 2 years. http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/wmpd/start.cfm Nature Jobs blog about how women increase their share [...]
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The pipeline is still leaky
The Economix blog at The New York Times summarizes a study on science’s “leaky pipeline”. Unsurprisingly, the study found that women are more likely to leave science due to the pressures of family life. Here are some of the most disturbing statistics from the summary: married women with young children are 35% less likely to [...]
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Get it in writing
Those of you who attended Bob Waterston’s talk on negotiating salaries and start-up packages already know that the most important part of negotiating an offer is to get it in writing. This is a bit of advice that University of Texas San Antonio’s Kelly Suter must wish that she had followed. Dr. Suter worked hard [...]
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Mary-Claire participates in roundtable on female scientists
The New York Times presents a partial transcript of a rountable discussion on women in science in which our own Mary-Claire King participated, along with three other prominent female scientists from various disciplines. Here’s my favorite MC quote, on promoting other female scientists: …women can help each other out a lot in this way because [...]
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Pay gap for faculty
Inside Higher Ed presents an article on recent research into the persistent gender pay gap in higher education faculty. The story describes a study by Laura Meyers, a doctoral candidate at our own University of Washington. Some highlights from the article: The gender gap in faculty pay cannot be explained completely by the long careers [...]
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Tenure track at Big Research U.
In a 5-part series, GenomeWeb presents a summary and highlights from Michael Ibba’s (Ohio State U.) career preparation talk at the American Society for Microbiology annual meeting. Ibba offers lots of useful advice based on his own experiences. Part 1: Reflections Part 2: Application Part 3: Interviews Part 4: Junior Faculty Part 5: Tenure Track [...]
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Informal selection criteria hurt women
While female faculty earn service and teaching awards in proportion to their representation in science, they are still severely underrepresented in the presentation of scholarly awards. This piece at Nature discusses some of the contributing factors to this phenomenon. If you are involved in a selection committee, you can take several steps to reduce any [...]
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Grant writing tips
This article at the Chronicle for Higher Education gives some really good grant-writing advice … by giving advice for how to fail. Just take the opposite of all of this advice, and you’ll have a good grant to turn in .
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Erin Cline-Davis Alternative Career WiGS Seminar
Friday, April 1, 2011 at 1:30 PM in Foege Auditorium. Click on title to view poster! Erin Cline-Davis Poster
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Ivory ceiling of service work
Academe, the magazine of the American Association of University Professors, recently printed this article detailing the large difference in the amount of time male and female faculty members spend on service activities. Service activities include tasks like serving on committees (search committees, seminar speaker invitation committees, curriculum revision committees, etc.), mentoring, and teaching. Studies have [...]
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2011 Women in Science and Engineering Conference
High school, community college, and university women are invited to explore opportunities in engineering and science careers at the 20th annual WiSE conference, a day devoted to celebrate women in the engineering and sciences. Women with vision and design on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers come together to research and explore opportunities in [...]
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New York Times on Beyond Bias
Here, the New York Times has its take on the National Academy of Sciences’ report on women in science careers (Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering). Although NYT says that the report “recommends a sweeping overhaul of our institutions”, little has changed in the four years since [...]
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Mommy Scientist
This popular blog is written by the online persona MommyScientist. While keeping her identity and exact scientific field a mystery, MommyScientist shares her experiences balancing her career and personal life, dealing with difficult male colleagues, teaching, and running her research lab. Posts are more infrequent of late, but the archives are still informative.
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Beyond Bias and Barriers
The NAS press has their study on women in science careers, Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering, available online for your reading pleasure. The report was released in 2006. Here’s a description: The United States economy relies on the productivity, entrepreneurship, and creativity of its people. To maintain its [...]