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Tied to the Track? The Career Paths of Women Scientists and Engineers as Seen from Three Vantage Points
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LTC/CISMI/HHMI/Mellon FLC: Tied to the Track? The Career Paths of Women Scientists and Engineers as Seen from Three Vantage Points, Sandra Laursen, guest.
Date: Monday, January 21st, 2008
Time: 4:30 pm
Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Location: Headley House, 815 East Second St
Sponsored by: Perlman Learning/Teaching Ctr, CISMI, HHMI, Mellon Faculty Life Cycles grant
Contact: jcoxjohn, Perlman LTC, Trish Ferrett
Monday, January 21
Tied to the Track? The Career Paths of Women Scientists and Engineers as Seen from Three Vantage Points
The number of women undergraduates earning degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) has increased to near-parity in many fields, but women are still underrepresented among STEM Ph.D.s and on college and university faculties, particularly among higher-status research institutions. To examine the individual decisions that collectively shape these demographics in the national workforce, our research group has conducted an interview study of career path development of women Ph.D. scientists and engineers, focusing on role of choice and circumstance in women’s' career decisions. I will discuss data from our study on how STEM graduate students who are approaching career decisions view academic faculty careers, and how these views affect their career choices. Graduate students' expectations of the plusses and minuses of faculty careers will be compared with the realities of life for tenure-track faculty and for Ph.D.-holding women in non-tenure-track research and teaching positions.
Sandra Laursen
Co-director and Research Associate
Ethnography & Evaluation Research (E&ER)
Center to Advance Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences (CARTSS)
University of Colorado at Boulder
Cosponsors Carleton Interdisciplinary Science and Math Initiative (CISMI), Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Mellon Faculty Life Cycles grant
Headley House, 815 East Second Street
4:30-6:00 pm, refreshments provided