Continuing to challenge American colleges and universities is the underrepresentation of women faculty in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields, particularly Latinas and other underrepresented women of color. Advancing Women in Academic STEM Fields through Dual Career Policies and Practices, comprised of scholarly essays, case studies, and interviews, argues that to address equity issues related to women faculty, academic institutions should consider work-life perspectives, including dual careers, when designing faculty recruitment, retention, and advancement strategies. By connecting the topic of dual career hiring to gender and ethnicity, the volume extends the current research on work-life integration by sharing best practices and approaches that have worked among institutions of higher education while incorporating issues related to intersectionality.
This book explores the underrepresentation of women, particlarly Latinas and other women of colour, in STEM academia. Through essays and case studies, it highlights how dual career policies can improve equity, recruitment, and retention, offering best practices for inclusion.
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| Foreword by the Editors |
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PART I INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW |
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1 Perspectives From an NSF ADVANCE Program Director |
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2 Women in Academic STEM: Dual Career and Work-Life Perspectives |
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PART II CHALLENGES, OPPORTUNITIES, AND BEST PRACTICES |
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3 The Dual Career Conundrum: Holistic Hiring--More Matters |
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4 Partner Accommodation in the Hinterlands: A Strategic Imperative for Faculty Retention |
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5 Transitioning From "Two-Body Problem" to "Dual Career Opportunity": A Long and Arduous Journey |
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6 Building a Dual Career Program: Myths and Realities |
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7 Interview: Dual Career Hiring at Harvard and the Higher Education Recruitment Consortium |
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PART III RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION WITH A FOCUS ON INTERSECTIONALITY |
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8 ADVANCING Latinas and Other Women in STEM Through Dual Career Hiring and Other Policy/Climate Initiatives at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley |
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9 Interview: Dual Career Hiring and Other NSF ADVANCE Initiatives at the University of California Davis to Increase the Representation of Latinas and Other Women in STEM |
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10 Choosing the Best: Successful Practices for Increasing the Number of Female Faculty in the Industrial Engineering Department at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez |
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Sonia M. Bartolomei-Suarez |
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11 Afterword on Lessons Learned |
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| About the Editors |
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Marci R. McMahon is Associate Professor in the Literatures and Cultural Studies Department at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV), with affiliations in the Gender and Womens Studies program and Mexican American Studies program. She previously served as the Interim Director of the Mexican American Studies Program and Center at the University of Texas Pan American (UTPA) and University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV), a bicultural and biliterate university along the US-Mexico border in South Texas and one of the largest Hispanic Serving Institutions in the nation. McMahon is a leading scholar in Chicana/o and Latina/o studies with publications in The Chicano Studies Reader: An Anthology of Aztlįn, 3rd Edition; Aztlįn: A Journal of Chicano Studies; Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of MALCS; Frontiers: A Journal of Womens Studies; Journal of Equity & Excellence in Education; and Text & Performance Quarterly. She is the author of Domestic Negotiations: Gender, Nation, and Self-Fashioning in US Mexicana and Chicana Literature and Art (Rutgers University Press, 2013), the first interdisciplinary study to explore how US Mexicana and Chicana authors and artists across different historical periods and regions use domestic space to engage with recurring debates about race, gender, and immigration. Her current book manuscript Listening to Latinidad: Sonic Cultural Citizenship in US Latina/o/x Theater and Performance extends this focus on performance, gender, and immigration, to explore critical moments in US history when citizenship has been redefined by US Latina/o/xs and has been in crisis; the book argues that citizenship is performed through sound, with aurality and listening as vital to performances of citizenship.
