Women in the Chemical Workforce A Workshop Report to the Chemical Sciences Roundtable (2000) / Chapter Skim
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Reports from the Breakout Sessions
Reports from the Breakout Sessions
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Greer, University of Maryland, College Park: In our group, which consisted mainly of chemical engineers, we addressed the first two of the three questions, and we started out with some stories about our lives as scientists and engineers. Some of us have been in this business for 30 years or so, and the war stories that we've told in our time are getting a little wearying.
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In my own department, when Jan Sengers was chair of chemical engineering at Maryland, he made it one of his high priorities to diversify the department. A long-time practice in academia is that you never hire one of your own students your student finishes and is expected to find a job somewhere else, but certainly not in your own institution.
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Her newly assigned female assistant came up to her and said, "I have never worked for a woman before, and I don't think I am going to like this." Needless to say, Marjam got her to see the light, and they worked well together over the years. I remember hearing that story when I was a fairly young manager, and it illustrates the point that sometimes women are their own worst enemies.
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For the large research institutions and government laboratories, being accepted and respected as a leader largely depends on your research capabilities and how long you stay competitive or active in research; there is little correlation with actual leadership skills. Your ability to be effective up the ladder in order to bring change to your unit often depends on the reputation that you bring external to the institution.
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There are so few women in leadership roles that we don't have enough examples of effective leadership among women in the chemical sciences to know who are the appropriate role models. We need more women as leaders, not only as role models, but also as champions and advocates for other women coming up the line.
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, both of which have been recognized as being positive places for women to be. Phillips Petroleum has two women on its board of directors, which is unusual for a petroleum company, and Bell Labs has made a huge effort over the last 10 years to incorporate women and help women make progress up into the management ranks.
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No, I don't think so. People see the sacrifices, and the lack of role models causes students to look and say, "That person spends 80 hours in the laboratory, writes three grant proposals a week," and so on.
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But this may be an insurmountable problem that you are addressing. Mary Welsh Jordan, American Chemical Society: The ACS data look very good.
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