Transforming Academic Science and Engineering: Advancing Women Faculty

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Transforming Academic Science and Engineering
Advancing Women Faculty

• Abigail J. Stewart
• University of Michigan

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Panelists

• Alice Hogan, director of NSF ADVANCE
• Susan Sturm, Columbia University
• Diana Bilimoria, Case Western Reserve University
• Vita Rabinowitz, Hunter College of the City
  University of New York

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Transforming Science and Engineering Advancing
Academic Women

• Abigail Stewart, Janet Malley, and Danielle
  LaVaque-Manty, co-editors
• University of Michigan Press, 2007
• Nineteen chapters in four sections
• Context
• Providing institutional support to individual
  women
• Transforming institutional practices
• Learning from change

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Key concepts

• Underrepresentation
• Token status
• Critical mass
• Gender schemas
• Evaluation bias
• Accumulation of disadvantage

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Lowered career success rate