Women in interdisciplinary science: Exploring preferences and consequences

Rhoten, Diana; Pfirman, Stephanie

doi:10.1016/j.respol.2006.08.001

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“…6,50 Research suggests, however, that women are more likely than men to participate in interdisciplinary, collaborative research. 51,52 In addition, women are more likely than men to consider perceived quality of life, earnings potential, and organizational reward; they are less likely than men to identify role models for personal-professional balance or to identify recognition as a national leader as motivating. 53 A Johns Hopkins follow-up study of women faculty who left the institution identified themes that influenced their decisions to leave.…”

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Systems of Career Influences: A Conceptual Model for Evaluating the Professional Development of Women in Academic Medicine

Magrane

Helitzer

Morahan

et al. 2012

Journal of Women's Health

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Background: Surprisingly little research is available to explain the well-documented organizational and societal influences on persistent inequities in advancement of women faculty. Methods: The Systems of Career Influences Model is a framework for exploring factors influencing women's progression to advanced academic rank, executive positions, and informal leadership roles in academic medicine. The model situates faculty as agents within a complex adaptive system consisting of a trajectory of career advancement with opportunities for formal professional development programming; a dynamic system of influences of organizational policies, practices, and culture; and a dynamic system of individual choices and decisions. These systems of influence may promote or inhibit career advancement. Within this system, women weigh competing influences to make career advancement decisions, and leaders of academic health centers prioritize limited resources to support the school's mission. Results and Conclusions: The Systems of Career Influences Model proved useful to identify key research questions. We used the model to probe how research in academic career development might be applied to content and methods of formal professional development programs. We generated a series of questions and hypotheses about how professional development programs might influence professional development of health science faculty members. Using the model as a guide, we developed a study using a quantitative and qualitative design. These analyses should provide insight into what works in recruiting and supporting productive men and women faculty in academic medical centers.

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Section: Individual Choices and Decisions: Aligning Values And Responmentioning

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Systems of Career Influences: A Conceptual Model for Evaluating the Professional Development of Women in Academic Medicine

Magrane

Helitzer

Morahan

et al. 2012

Journal of Women's Health

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“…The IGERT programs in the area of environmental systems (interdisciplinary work that crosses earth systems, ecosystem management, and environmental science and engineering) drew 57 percent to 80 percent female participation, even though the female representation in any one of the individual disciplines was no higher than 55 percent. 400 Olin college, which has a highly integrated interdisciplinary engineering program-and offers only engineering degrees-has a 44 percent female enrollment compared to a 22 percent representation rate for women in engineering nationwide, aggregated across individual field "silos." Professional Science Master's programs, which offer "more interdisciplinary training, often in informatics, computation or engineering, than a typical science degree, Women, for example, are underrepresented in STEM, even though they are preferentially attracted to interdisciplinary STEM work.…”

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Reforming a Large Foundational Course: Successes and Challenges

Talanquer

Pollard

2017

J. Chem. Educ.

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The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) is a Washington, D.C.-based think tank at the cutting edge of designing innovation policies and exploring how advances in information technology will create new economic opportunities to improve the quality of life. Nonprofit, and nonpartisan, ITIF offers pragmatic ideas that break free of economic philosophies born in eras long before the first punch card computer and well before the rise of modern China. ITIF, founded in 2006, is dedicated to conceiving and promoting new ways of thinking about technology-driven productivity, competitiveness, and globalization for the 21st century.ITIF publishes policy reports, holds forums and policy debates, advises elected officials and their staff, and provides an active resource for the media. It develops new and creative policy proposals, analyzes existing policy issues through the lens of bolstering innovation and productivity, and advocates against policies that hinder digital transformation and innovation. The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.

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“…1 U.S. federal agencies have significantly increased the funding available for multidisciplinary enquiry (Reis, 2000;Rhoten and Pfirman, 2007). Of interest to applied economists are recent requests for proposals (RFPs) from federal agencies that ask for submissions from multidisciplinary teams that include social scientists.…”

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Multidisciplinary Research: Implications for Agricultural and Applied Economists

Mooney

Young

Cobourn

et al. 2013

J. Agric. Appl. Econ.

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We detail the rewards and barriers to participating in multidisciplinary research (MDR) using a 2011 survey of applied economists at U.S. universities. We compare these findings with an earlier 1993 survey to assess if rewards and barriers have changed over time. Different administrative levels of U.S. universities are sending contradictory signals regarding rewards from MDR. External funding agencies convey positive signals. Although the scope and breadth of questions addressed by applied economists are changing over time, institutional incentives and reward structures are not keeping pace with these changes. Progress toward adapting to new professional demands has been slow.

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Women in interdisciplinary science: Exploring preferences and consequences

Cited by 216 publications

References 38 publications

Systems of Career Influences: A Conceptual Model for Evaluating the Professional Development of Women in Academic Medicine

Systems of Career Influences: A Conceptual Model for Evaluating the Professional Development of Women in Academic Medicine

Reforming a Large Foundational Course: Successes and Challenges

Multidisciplinary Research: Implications for Agricultural and Applied Economists

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