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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
Women Suffer from Superwoman Syndrome
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
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
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
Benefits of Membership
Differentiation Pays Networking
Personal skill –building
Career enhancement
Raising Personal Profile
Recognition
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
AWIS Represents Women in All Sectors of Science
AWIS has 54 chapters around the United States
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
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
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
Work‐Life Balance Satisfaction Begins with AWARENESS
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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Fig. 1 Science Awards by Gender (1985-2004) Women receive a disproportionately small share of science awards compared to science PhDs.
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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).
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
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
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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