Gender Representation in Faculty and Leadership at Land Grant and Research Institutions

Cho, Alyssa; Chakraborty, Debolina; Rowland, Diane

doi:10.2134/agronj2015.0566

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“…This study represents the first step in such a change process: highlighting trends and visible problems while creating greater institutional attentiveness to gender equity (Sturm, 2006). By itself, this may prove ineffective in achieving gender equity if not associated with structural changes (i.e., policy) that translate these findings into objective and enforceable actions (Kalev et al, 2006;Cho et al, 2017). Improvements in the upward mobility of women and under-represented groups within soil science can be achieved by implementing best practices that include: greater transparency in decision-making processes; greater accountability by decision-makers; formal codification and standardization of procedures, criteria, and responsibilities in decision making; and inclusion of organizational leadership as agents of change (Reskin, 2000).…”

Section: Recommendations In Looking Forwardmentioning

confidence: 99%

Women in Soil Science: Growing Participation, Emerging Gaps, and the Opportunities for Advancement in the USA

Vaughan

Miegroet

Pennino

et al. 2019

Soil Science Soc of Amer J

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The soil science discipline has undergone significant changes since its establishment in the 1900s; from strong connections with agronomy to a broader focus on ecosystems, earth, and environmental sciences while also during this period experiencing a notable increase in diversity among soil scientists. In this review, we explore soil science from the perspective of gender demographics and disciplinary foci of soil scientists. We examine graduate student enrollment metrics; employment information in academia, the federal government, and the private sector; and membership data from SSSA to gain deeper insight into these changes and the implications for the future of soil science. Women earn nearly half of the advanced soil science degrees. The number of women pursuing soil science careers has also increased, albeit less markedly, as women now comprise 24, 26, and 20% of the soil scientists in academic faculty positions, federal agencies, and private industry, respectively. However, there is reason for concern that women linger in intermediate levels of employment, and further attrition occurs along the career ladder with only ~18% of the highest employment levels held by women; even fewer reach executive leadership levels in any sector. The growing participation of women in soil science is further reflected in a nearly 45% increase in female membership and meeting attendance in SSSA over the past decade, but recognition of their accomplishments and their presence in SSSA leadership positions remains low. We provide recommendations toward greater inclusion and gender diversity as this represents an important pathway to grow and innovate our science.

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Section: Recommendations In Looking Forwardmentioning

confidence: 99%

Women in Soil Science: Growing Participation, Emerging Gaps, and the Opportunities for Advancement in the USA

Vaughan

Miegroet

Pennino

et al. 2019

Soil Science Soc of Amer J

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“…The sample composition also changes across survey waves, explained by faculty change in LGUs over the decades. For instance, as shown in Table 3 , the proportion of female faculty increases from 8 percent in 1989 to 27 percent in 2015, largely reflecting the historical documented increase representation of women in land grant universities [ 44 ]. We also see a decrease in the proportion of tenured faculty, from 80 to 75 percent, which is consistent with an ageing faculty cohort.…”

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The enduring pursuit of public science at U.S. land-grant universities

2021

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Since the 1990s, universities have faced a push toward output commercialization that has been seen as a potential threat to the public science model. Much less attention has been given to the enduring nature of internal organizational features in academia and how they shape the pursuit of traditional scholarly activities. This article exploits four waves of representative, random-sample survey evidence from agricultural and life science faculty at the 52 major U.S. land-grant universities, spanning 1989-2015, to examine faculty attitudes/preferences, tenure and promotion criteria, output, and funding sources. Our findings demonstrate that faculty attitudes toward scientific research have remained remarkably stable over twenty-five years in strongly favoring intrinsic and public science goals over commercial or extrinsic goals. We also demonstrate the faculty’s positive attitudes toward science, an increased pressure to publish in top journals and secure increasingly competitive grants, as well as declining time for science. These trends suggest a reconsideration of university commercialization strategies and a recommitment of universities and their state and federal funders toward fostering public agricultural and life science research.

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“…In agriculture, the discursive construction of women as supporters rather than leaders mirrors the construction of women in business and society more broadly (Cho, Chakraborty, & Rowland, 2017). Ideal leadership traits are constructed as associated with the masculine, such as intellectual rationality and self‐control, aggressiveness and competitiveness, readiness to assume risk and career orientation (O'Neil & Hopkins, 2015), coordination and control, with a preoccupation with the achievement of goals (Kerfoot & Knights, 1999).…”

Section: Gender and The Professional Agricultural Services Sectormentioning

confidence: 99%

Tempered disruption: Gender and agricultural professional services

Sheridan

Newsome

2021

Gender Work & Organization

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Agriculture has traditionally been framed as men's work, while women's contributions to the sector have largely been rendered invisible. This article examines the emerging agricultural professional services sector, asking how a changing environment for agriculture may be disrupting traditional gender norms framing agricultural employment. Drawing together the literature in gender and agriculture, professional services and entrepreneurship and interviews with 22 women who have built businesses in agricultural professional services in Australia, our analysis identifies that a confluence of macro and micro activities are shaping new opportunities for women in agricultural employment. Through leveraging a changing industry environment, exercising agency, (valuing) local matters and communion, participants are disturbing traditional gendered patterns of agricultural employment. Our analysis highlights how, as participants build their businesses and demonstrate agency in a dynamic environment, they value the integrating, reconciling, and synthesizing they experience from supporting the flow of activities in their communities. In claiming their space in the changing landscape of agricultural professional services, they exemplify communion enriched by agency, and we see a tempered disruption of the gendered norms in agricultural employment. The article contributes to scholarship on agricultural professional work and identifies how historical patterns of employment and masculine privilege are being disrupted.

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Gender Representation in Faculty and Leadership at Land Grant and Research Institutions

Cited by 12 publications

References 28 publications

Women in Soil Science: Growing Participation, Emerging Gaps, and the Opportunities for Advancement in the USA

Women in Soil Science: Growing Participation, Emerging Gaps, and the Opportunities for Advancement in the USA

The enduring pursuit of public science at U.S. land-grant universities

Tempered disruption: Gender and agricultural professional services

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