Department Conditions and Practices Associated with Faculty Workload Satisfaction and Perceptions of Equity

Gender Differences in Grant Submissions across Science and Engineering Fields at the NSF

“…We were especially interested in assessing the degree of difference between academic men and women in what they reported as their primary work activity and in how this varies across fields and through time, because research has suggested (for a review, see O'Meara et al 2019 ) that women spend less time on research and more time on teaching and service than men. The SDR defines primary work activity as the activity that respondents spent the most number of hours on during a typical work week.…”

“…Despite the significant increase in the numbers of women in the S&E professoriate over the last 20 years, women are still much less likely to report that research is their primary work activity in comparison to men (Foley et al 2019 ), but this varies considerably by field (figure 4 a) and the disparity is especially evident in the social, behavioral, and economic sciences and in math and physical sciences. Some studies have shown that a possible reason for this gender difference is that women are asked (and accept) more often than men to participate in teaching, service, mentoring, or other less research-heavy activities (Mitchell and Hesli 2013 , Babacock et al 2017 , O'Meara et al, 2017 , 2019 ). Women are also more likely than men to be employed in teaching-intensive positions within universities (see Eagly 2020 but also NSF 2019 , which shows that S&E doctorate holders frequently self-identify as both research faculty and teaching faculty).…”

“…These range from implicit or explicit bias, harassment, stereotype threat, less access to institutional resources, the motherhood penalty, caregiving for elderly parents, lower salaries, to lack of mentors at higher academic ranks (NAS et al 2007 , Shen 2013 , NASEM 2018 ). This inequity in work activity could lead to less productivity in research because of there being less time available, and therefore it is important for institution administrators to promote equitable workload and activity rotations among all faculty and protected time for research (O'Meara et al 2019 ).…”

A model of peer effects on instructor innovation adoption

“…This model focuses on peer interactions as a mechanism for influencing an instructor's knowledge or affective state. An instructor's past and present experiences within and outside the classroom, including the environment for equity and diversity (e.g., Corneille et al 2019;O'Meara et al 2019), past professional development (or lack thereof) (e.g., Emery et al 2020;Grunspan et al 2018), and student input (e.g., Cook-Sather 2020; Wallace et al 2019) shape their present knowledge and/or affective state (Emery et al 2019;Shadle et al 2017;Sturtevant and Wheeler 2019). The contribution of this model is the explicit linking of peer interactions as a mechanism for impacting knowledge and affect.…”

The Effect of Service on Research Performance: A Study on Italian Academics in Management

“…Surprisingly, academic citizenship, intended as the service provided to the university and to the wider society, has remained in the background of the reflection on higher education (e.g., Vogelgesang et al, 2010;Macfarlane, 2011;Lawrence et al, 2012). Academic citizenship comprises a set of activities and roles that are mostly implicitly expected to be part of the academic profession, but that are often not clearly recognized and rewarded (O'Meara et al, 2019). The ambiguity linked to the status of service in academia calls for a study inquiring into its relationship with research to inform our understanding of how emphasis on research performance impinges upon faculty's other duties and roles.…”