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Investing in Career Development and Lifelong Learning Janet Bandows Koster Executive Director NPA Summit on Gender and the Postdoctorate March 11, 2010

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Page 1: Investing in Career Development and Lifelong Learning · 2018-04-04 · NEW MENTORING HANDBOOK Getting the Most out of your Mentoring Relationships Provides a quick yet structured

Investing in Career Development and Lifelong Learning

Janet Bandows Koster

Executive Director

NPA Summit on Gender and the Postdoctorate

March 11, 2010

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Women Suffer from Superwoman Syndrome

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What We Know about Gender and the Postdoc

Women carry the major burden of work outside work –

The Three “C”s: Cleaning, Caregiving, Coordination

Women are often excluded from informal networksWomen don’t negotiate as aggressively as menWomen don’t nominate themselves for awards and recognition

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Invest in Yourself

Tell you how to get ahead in your career

Strategies to help you get there 

Resources available as  you move along the career continuum

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Join Professional Societies

More than 400 Scientific Societies in USSociety for Neuroscience

American Society for Microbiology

Professional societies dedicated to gender equity:AWIS

SWE 

AWM

Other Professional OrganizationsToastmasters

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Benefits of Membership

Differentiation Pays Networking

Personal skill –building

Career enhancement

Raising Personal Profile

Recognition

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AWIS – Who We Are

The premiere leadership organization advocating the interests of women in science and technology

For nearly 40 years, fighting for fair career advancement for women – from the lab bench to the board room

Vigilant against workforce obstacles that prevent women from realizing their full potential in STEM

Uniting women through a nationwide network of chapters and partnerships with aligned professional organizations

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AWIS Represents Women in All Sectors of Science

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AWIS has 54 chapters around the United States

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Career Advancement for Women

AWIS provides professional development resourcesWebinars, teleseminars, magazine, career advice

AWIS disseminates tools and techniques that enable the women scientist in her careerWashington Wire, www.awis.org, AWIS Magazine

AWIS allows women in science to achieve their full career potential

AWIS empowers women to excel in STEM fieldsMentoring, networking, advocating

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NEW MENTORING HANDBOOK

Getting the Most out of your Mentoring Relationships

Provides a quick yet structured guide to mentoring

Includes a handy resource guide for quick reference

Is the most comprehensive handbook catered to women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics

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AWIS/Elsevier PartnershipGoal: To provide women in STEM with resources and skill sets to successfully juggle the competing 

demands of personal and professional responsibilities

Delivery: Live chapter presentations, web‐based training, on‐demand e‐resources, on‐going peer 

networking and supplemental coaching

Program Timeline

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Work‐Life Balance Satisfaction Begins with AWARENESS

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Recognition

Awards and prizes play a critical role in shaping and advancing STEM careers. Under‐representation of women among STEM award recipients presents a barrier to their advancement in these fields.  While the proportion of Ph.D. degrees earned by women in STEM fields has increased substantially over the past 25 years (National Science Foundation 2006; England et al.2007), the increase in the number of women receiving awards from scientific societies has not kept pace.

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How Women Fare

From 1981‐2007, women received approximately 12% of all scientific awards for which both men and women were eligible. For over half (54%) of these 1066 awards, women were the recipients less than 10% of the time.  

Over the past 25 years, the number of awards specifically for women has increased.  From 1981 to 2006, the number of women‐only awards in the RAISE database rose from 5 to 71. This has increased the overall number of female award recipients in all STEM disciplines to almost 25% in 2006.  While often intended tohighlight women’s research and compensate for biases in the nomination and selection processes, women‐only awards have the potential to ghettoize and devalue women’s scientific contributions, the precise results these awards are intended to ameliorate (Williams 2006).

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Collective Representation

The premier voice for women scientists in the public policy arena

The only voice that speaks on a national level for all women in science

The authoritative voice on the status of women e.g. through gender equity research via ADVANCE grants

A champion for women nominees for awards and fellowships

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Hope for the FutureMore organizations and institutions formalizing work‐life policies and practices, including benefits like on‐site childcare or assistance finding it, domestic partner benefits, mandatory stopping of the tenure clock for both men and women upon childbirth or adoption, etc.

NSF ADVANCE Grants & Sloan Awards for Career Flexibility (both academic and corporate)

EEOC best‐practice recommendations re: work‐life balance

Changing attitudes about women in the workplace

AWIS will continue to advocate on behalf of all women postdocs

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What Can Institutions Do 

Promote the importance of professional societies

Publicize opportunities in professional societies

Subsidize membership in professional societies

Become institutional members of professional societies

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Alexandria, VA  22314(202) 326‐8940

http://www.awis.org