Committee on Gender Differences in Careers of Science,Engineering, and Mathematics Faculty First Committee Meeting AgendaFirst Committee MeetingThe National Academies Keck Center Rm. 204Washington, DCJanuary 29-30, 2004AGENDA January 29, 2004 CLOSED SESSION 8:00-8:30 Continental Breakfast 8:30-8:45 Welcome Claude R. Canizares, Committee Chair Richard Bissell, Executive Director, PGA Connie Citro, Acting Chief of Staff, CNSTAT Jong-on Hahm, […]

Arizona State University; Boston University; Brown University; California Insti­tute of Technology; Carnegie-Mellon University; Case Western Reserve Univer­sity; Colorado State University; Columbia University; Cornell University; Duke University; Emory University; Florida State University; Georgetown University; Georgia Institute of Technology; Harvard University; Howard University; Indiana University at Bloomington; Iowa State University; Johns Hopkins University; Louisiana State University; Massachusetts […]

Claude R. Canizares (Co-Chair) is the Vice President for Research and Asso­ciate Provost and the Bruno Rossi Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has overall responsibility for research activity and policy at MIT, overseeing more than a dozen interdisciplinary research labo­ratories and centers including the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, the Broad […]

9. How important are differences among fields? Future studies should examine additional engineering and scientific fields because as the data in this report demonstrates fields differ a lot from each other. Certain engineering fields, including chemical engineering and bioengineering, may look very different from the two engineering fields—civil and electrical—examined here. 10. What are the […]

This study raises many unanswered questions about the status of women in academia. As noted at the onset of this report, the surveys did not capture the expe­riences of Ph. D.s who never apply for academic positions, nor of female faculty who have left at various points in their academic careers. We also recognize that […]

Professional societies in science and engineering disciplines should: 9. Collect data on the career tracks of their members. This study identi­fied many differences among disciplines that warrant investigation. Why, for example, do biology and chemistry have disproportionately smaller applicant pools of women for faculty positions? (Finding 3-3) And why are women in elec­trical engineering and […]

Research I institutions should: 1. Design and implement new programs and policies to increase the number of women applying for tenure-track or tenured positions and evalu­ate existing programs for effectiveness. This includes enhancing institutional efforts to encourage female graduates and postdocs to consider careers at RI institutions. In each of the six disciplines studied, women […]

The survey data suggest that positive changes have taken place and continue to occur. At the same time, the data should not be mistakenly interpreted as indi­cating that male and female faculty in math, science, and engineering have reached full equality and representation, and we caution against premature complacency. Women remain underrepresented among science and […]

Women spent significantly longer time in rank as assistant professors than men did. Finding 5-8: Time in rank as an assistant professor has grown over time for both male and female faculty. Men who were full professors at the time of the survey had spent the least amount of time in rank as assistant professors. […]

No significant gender disparity was found at the stage of promotion to full professor. Finding 5-6: For the six disciplines surveyed, 90 percent of the men and 88 percent of the women proposed for full professor were promoted—a differ­ence that was not statistically significant. There was no significant difference in the probability of promotion to […]