[Air-l] Fwd: TP Msg. #613 WOMEN PROFESSORS WITH CHILDREN

jeremy hunsinger jhuns at vt.edu
Tue Jan 11 07:37:52 PST 2005


this was engineering oriented, and u.s. centric, but I think it is 
worth noting in the association context, so I'm sending it anyway.

jeremy

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> From: Rick Reis <reis at stanford.edu>
> Date: January 10, 2005 4:44:04 PM EST
> To: tomorrows-professor at lists.Stanford.EDU
> Subject: TP Msg. #613  WOMEN  PROFESSORS WITH CHILDREN
>
> "The details of the stories varied widely, but common themes included 
> the necessity for choices and giving up on some things, the benefits 
> of shared responsibilities, the importance of private time for self 
> and spouse, and for developing strategies that work. Specific 
> strategies included setting priorities consistent with family, 
> limiting travel, delegating responsibility, and advance planning and 
> anticipating."
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> Folks;
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> In June 2004 a workshop on Mentoring in Engineering was held at 
> Stanford with the joint support of the Presidential Award for 
> Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring 
> (PAESMEM, administered by the NSF and funded by the White House) and 
> the Stanford School of
> Engineering. The two day workshop brought together graduate students 
> and all levels of faculty for presentations and discussions on the 
> needs, goals, methods, and best practices for mentoring students, 
> junior faculty, and mid level faculty for academic careers. The 
> emphasis was on mentoring members of underrepresented groups in 
> academic engineering, especially women, but most of the topics are 
> common to all interested in academic engineering careers.  An excerpt 
> on Women Professors With Children appears below followed by a copy of 
> the table of contents of the proceedings.  The full Workshop 
> Proceedings are available at the workshop website 
> http://paesmem.stanford.edu/ in both pdf format for printing and html
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> Regards,
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> Rick Reis
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> 			Tomorrow's Academic Careers
>
> 	------------------------------------ 750 words 
> --------------------------------------
>
> 		       WOMEN  PROFESSORS WITH CHILDREN
>
> This session was intended to provide some advice, anecdotes, 
> perspectives, and information about combining children with an 
> academic engineering career. The session resulted in two chapters in 
> this book. The first talk of the session concerned the timing of 
> children- should one have babies during one's graduate student years, 
> during a postdoc, as a faculty member pre-tenure, or should one wait 
> until after tenure? A wealth of data relevant to these questions is 
> presented in chapter *. The remainder of the session concerned 
> strategies for balancing work and family once a baby has arrived, 
> issues treated in chapter *. The presentation, discussions, and the 
> chapter collect anecdotes regarding successful balancing of children 
> and career from four women engineering professors.
>
> Obviously children are of concern to both parents and not just women 
> faculty, but equally obviously the workload is different with 
> childbirth and women historically have borne the brunt of childcare. 
> All but one of the panelists in this session were women, but men 
> participated actively in the discussions.
>
> The details of the stories varied widely, but common themes included 
> the necessity for choices and giving up on some things, the benefits 
> of shared responsibilities, the importance of private time for self 
> and spouse, and for developing strategies that work. Specific 
> strategies included setting priorities consistent with family, 
> limiting travel, delegating responsibility, and advance planning and 
> anticipating.
>
> The rewards of an academic life are many: the job is intellectually 
> stimulating, and you work on a problem you love. It's flexible and 
> customizable, and you have the self-determination that comes from 
> having no boss, and from choosing what you work on. You have the 
> satisfaction of knowing that you are contributing to the knowledge of 
> the human race, and you are training the next generation of scientists 
> and inventors.
>
> From the point of view of having children, the rewards of being a 
> professor and parent are also numerous. The work week and work day are 
> flexible, so you can go to school performances and sports events and 
> parent-teacher conferences, without having to punch a time clock, and 
> in fact without having to notify anyone that you are leaving, and 
> without having to account for your time to anyone. The children are 
> exposed to all sorts of fascinating intellectual topics from an early 
> age; they learn to appreciate the questions and the approach to 
> answers that a mind devoted to the pursuit of new knowledge produces. 
> Also the children of women who are engineering faculty do not grow up 
> with some of the stereotypical notions of women that other segments of 
> the population may have, e.g., that girls can't do math, and that a 
> woman's place is in the home.
>
> Proceedings Table of Contents
>
>  * Contents
>     * Preface
>           * Acknowledgements
>     * Overview
>           * Mentoring
>           * Best Practices
>           * Early and mid career mentoring
>           * How to be as bright and capable as everyone seems to think 
> you are
>           * Mentoring support: National and local resources for 
> mentoring
>           * Mentoring for academic leadership
>           * Women professors with children
>           * Epilog
>     * Mentoring
>     * References
>     * Best practices
>           * General observations
>           * Stages of mentoring
>           * Issues in mentoring of women
>     * Early and mid career mentoring
>           * Introduction
>           * Graduate students
>           * Junior faculty
>           * Maintaining momentum after tenure
>     * How to feel as bright and capable
>           * What is the Imposter Syndrome?
>           * Who's Most at Risk for the Imposter Syndrome?
>           * If They Only Knew ...How Imposters Explain Away Success
>           * The Phew Factor: Fooled Them Again
>           * Refining Competence
>           * About the Author
>     * Mentoring support
>           * Web resources
>           * Case Studies
>           * MentorNet
>           * Mentoring: A Berkeley Perspective
>           * Mentoring at the Center for Workforce Development
>           * The Caltech Women's Center
>           * The NSF ADVANCE Program
>           * Advancing women at Virginia Tech through institutional 
> transformation
>     * Mentoring for academic leadership
>           * Academic Leadership
>           * Choosing Leadership
>           * Mentoring for academic leadership
>     * Women professors with children
>           * Introduction
>           * Timing of Children
>           * Strategies
>           * Conclusions
>     * Do babies mattter?
>           * Survey of Doctorate Recipients
>           * Leaks in the Pipeline to Tenure
>           * Leaks in the Pipeline: Tenure Track to Tenure
>           * Family Status
>           * Family Status 12 Years out from PhD
>           * UC work and family survey
>           * Everyone is very busy
>           * The baby lag for UC women in pursuit of tenure
>           * Biological baby births by age of UC faculty
>           * Having fewer children than they wanted
>           * Sloan Grant
>     * Epilog
>     * Appendix: Participants
>     * Footnotes
>
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