The primary source of information for this report consists of two new surveys designed and conducted especially for this project by the American Institute of Physics during 2004 and 2005. The surveys were undertaken to fill in some of the current gaps in knowledge regarding faculty outcomes and institutional practices, which could not otherwise be […]
День: 31.10.2015
Differences and Commonalities with Other National Academies’ Reports
The committee has benefited greatly from three other National Academies’ reports on women in academic science and engineering. In 2001 NRC published From Scarcity to Visibility: Gender Differences in the Careers of Doctoral Scientists and Engineers,”15 a statistical analysis of the career progression of matched cohorts of men and women Ph. D.s from 1973 to […]
Findings from Team C
Team C consists of three females, Dawn, Winnie and Samantha (pseudonyms) who are friends. The team discussion started very task focused with Dawn initiating the discussion for the first proj ect. Team members also expressed their expectations for the task. For instance, Samantha clarified, “so we are supposed to search for information and categorize and […]
Physical differences
If there is one thing people like to feel certain about it is whether a newborn child is a girl or a boy. Until we have that piece of information it is difficult to think about a baby as a person at all and we do not know how to treat ‘it’. How people think […]
Who and What Are Included
In addition to focusing on select factors affecting academic careers, the study has limited its scope to particular types of institutions, individuals, and disciplines. First, the focus of this study is primarily current, rather than historical or predictive. It is beyond the scope of the charge and the resources of the committee overseeing this report […]
What Career Factors Are Examined
As is readily apparent to anyone who has studied, considered, or experienced an academic career, many vital transition points and factors affect career choices and decisions. These encompass influences from as early as high school or middle school to decisions and opportunities until (and beyond) retirement. They include decisions or opportunities to pursue academic careers, […]
Realistic Concerns
By many measures, parents do, indeed, have good grounds to be concerned. Those who came of age in the 1980s could not have been unaware of a major stock market crash in the middle of that decade and then some significant bumps along the way to the first decade of the twenty-first century.2 The boom […]
Heike Becker
Davies (1987:102) argues that the male-female reversal served as a visual and possibly psychological contrast between girlhood and adult (married) womanhood where the sanctioned period of liberty was complementary to the “serious and responsible” position of women in marriage. It then was first and foremost a stage of liminality, where the young women stripped off […]
Concepts: Meanings, Games and Contests
I am suggesting neither that there are differences of opinion about concepts which possess an uncontestable core, nor that concepts are linked to incommensurable theories. Rather I see concepts and categories as shaped by political goals and intentions. Contests over the meaning of concepts, it follows, are contests over desired political outcomes. (Bacchi, 1996: 1) […]
Scope
This study is necessarily limited. Academia in the United States is both broad and varied, and the factors affecting the career tracks of female Ph. D.s in science and engineering are diverse and complex. This report focuses on a small but vital segment of higher education, a specific population of faculty members, and factors affecting […]