[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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> 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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> ------------------------------------ 750 words
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> 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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