Women in the Chemical Workforce A Workshop Report to the Chemical Sciences Roundtable (2000) / Chapter Skim
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· What are the unwritten agendas and folktales of career prospects for women in chemistry and chemical engineering? Are they realistic?
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We all must do a Dart. I can tell You from mv position as chair of the ACS Women Chemists Committee, that we have been trying to get women recognized with ACS awards.
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In the best cases, private companies are required by law, by practice, and by stockholders to be much more transparent than academic institutions have to be at the present time. To what degree will social changes be forcing more transparency on academic institutions, and what are the implications of that?
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My personal plea is that you find academic reasons for change that will motivate boards, deans, and faculties and be understood and valued by the students. I suggest that we must add to our current arguments about human rights, equal opportunity, and human capital the argument that everything we are talking about will be good for science and technology in the future and certainly for the future scientists and technologists.
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For instance, if there were a report card on diversity standards that could be used by universities, might this be a better tool than federal enforcement through EEO or civil rights legislation? If you give an institution a positive incentive instead of bringing in a big federal bureaucracy to try to do this, the results might be better.
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In some schools, department chairs have addressed this problem and put a stop to the practice. Nobody in that department can be put on a committee unless the department chair agrees, and the department chair will shield women and minorities, so that they are not penalized by having to sit on every single committee.
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News and World Report, which is the bible for a lot of academic institutions. They wave it around, saying, "We're number one." I know whenever I visit a school, it is astonishing: as soon as that issue comes out, the first thing every department chair says to me is, "We're number two" or "We're number four." There is a real possibility that if the ranking included diversity as part of the metric, people would sit up and take notice.
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We need to continually support this type of political activity, especially if we are going to be raising issues of women in the work environment, in this case, the field of chemistry. So we want people to know first that we applaud the efforts of women and second that we want them to 2Commission on the Advancement of Women and Minorities in Science, Engineering, and Technology Development (CAWMSET)
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The other thing is action whatever is possible for us to do to get an executive order applying Title IX to academic institutions. This is a tough one, a tough one.
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ACS/CPT not only collects data on women faculty, but looks at how many women are on the faculty and what their level of development is. If it seems to ACS/CPT that women are not being promoted or are not getting sabbaticals or equipment, it asks questions.
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