University Service Work in STEM Departments: Gender, Perceived Injustice, and Consequences for Faculty

Pedersen, Daphne E.; Minnotte, Krista Lynn

doi:10.1080/00380237.2018.1393607

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“…Scholars have described the competition for scarce resources that is a persistent feature of STEM academic contexts and the inequities that are often built into the distribution of such resources (Fox, 2010; Rosser, 2012; Settles et al, 2007). Furthermore, lack of equity in STEM service loads and teaching obligations can create departmental environments in which perceived injustice likely arises (Carrigan, Quinn, & Riskin, 2011; Pedersen & Minnotte, 2018). For example, past research has connected perceived injustice in one aspect of faculty work—service—to a host of negative outcomes, including lower job satisfaction and heightened levels of job stress (Pedersen & Minnotte, 2018).…”

Section: Perceived Injustice and Work-to-life Conflictmentioning

confidence: 99%

Department Environment and Work-to-Life Conflict Among Faculty in the STEM Fields

Minnotte

Pedersen

2019

Journal of Family Issues

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Identifying factors contributing to work-to-life conflict among STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) faculty members is crucial to improving how STEM faculty manage multiple roles. This study examines how both positive (psychological safety) and negative (perceived injustice) features of the departmental environment predict work-to-life conflict among STEM faculty. We also consider whether gender moderates how each facet of the departmental environment relates to work-to-life conflict. Data are from STEM faculty at a midsized university located in the Upper Midwest (N = 114 faculty members). The findings indicated that both psychological safety and perceived injustice were significantly associated with the dependent variable. We found no evidence of gender moderating these relationships. Altogether, the results suggest that institutional efforts to reduce work-to-life conflict should consider both the positive and the negative facets of the STEM departmental environment and target men and women faculty alike.

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Section: Perceived Injustice and Work-to-life Conflictmentioning

confidence: 99%

Department Environment and Work-to-Life Conflict Among Faculty in the STEM Fields

Minnotte

Pedersen

2019

Journal of Family Issues

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“…Despite the great importance of "institutional housekeeping", it is rarely recognized or rewarded in the tenure and promotion process (Winslow 2010;Pederson and Minnotte 2018;Henley 2015). Instead, it is the "agentic traits" of men, exemplifying leadership and ambition, that are valued within the traditional model of academia (Fine 2014).…”

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“…Other scholars argue that women are choosing to opt out of the pipeline as a result of work-family conflict. With women still undertaking most of the caregiving responsibilities, many female PhD candidates are under the impression that they can 'have it all', only to discover the incompatibility of motherhood with a career in academic STEM Harris and Giuffre 2010; Pederson and Minnotte 2018). Many women are left with a dilemma, whether to pursue a tenure track position or adhere to the tick-tock of their biological clock.…”

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Women Faculty's Perceptions of Departmental Belonging Across Academic Disciplines

Olarsch¹

2018

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Women’s growing numerical representation in gender atypical careers, including the professoriate, has not necessarily meant that they are being accepted, included and integrated in these traditionally male-dominated spaces. This study explores female faculty members’ feelings of isolation within their department across academic disciplines. Drawing on the theory of tokenism, I hypothesize that women faculty members in STEM disciplines, which have been historically male-dominated, are more likely to express a lesser sense of belonging in their department, than women faculty members in the Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities. I analyzed data from a 2009 online survey administered to tenure-track and tenured faculty at two highly selective liberal arts colleges. After restricting my analysis to women, I controlled for women’s familial responsibilities as well as their position within the academic institution. Unlike previous research at universities, OLS regression analysis showed that women in STEM actually expressed a higher level of fitting in their department than those in other disciplines. Examining the two colleges separately revealed that this result only applied to women at the former men’s college, which had a long history of strong STEM departments. For women faculty at the former women’s college, whose historic strengths were in the Arts and Humanities rather than STEM, there was no statistically significant relationship between being in STEM and fitting in their department. Instead, women who indicated that they were married at the former women’s college expressed greater feelings of belonging than their unmarried female counterparts.

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“…Although there have been many studies of persistence in female STEM students (e.g., [24]) and female engineering students in particular (e.g., [25]), there have been far fewer efforts to investigate persistence of female engineering faculty. Our study is informed by research of higher education faculty exploring the experiences of women in the academy (e.g., [26] [27]) and the literature on women in engineering careers (e.g., [28]).…”

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“…Welch and Jha [47] investigated determinants of satisfaction among faculty with subconstructs that included: satisfaction with rewards, recognition, and reputation within the department; perceived influence over hiring, tenure, promotion, resource support, and service assignment within the department. Pedersen and Minnotte [27] studied the gendered network of university service work among STEM faculty and focused on workplace climate, specifically job satisfaction, scholarly isolation, workplace interpersonal conflict, and job stress.…”

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Board 102: Development of the Persistence of Engineers in the Academy Survey (PEAS)

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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University Service Work in STEM Departments: Gender, Perceived Injustice, and Consequences for Faculty

Cited by 18 publications

References 68 publications

Department Environment and Work-to-Life Conflict Among Faculty in the STEM Fields

Department Environment and Work-to-Life Conflict Among Faculty in the STEM Fields

Women Faculty's Perceptions of Departmental Belonging Across Academic Disciplines

Board 102: Development of the Persistence of Engineers in the Academy Survey (PEAS)

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