2007 Mentoring Symposium on
Being Heard: The Microinequities That Tilt the Playing Field
(Sponsored by Women in APS and ASPET Committees)
Organizers:
Susan Steinberg (ASPET)
Holly Brevig (ASPET)
Kathy Berecek (APS)
Siribhinya Benyajati (APS)
This workshop will cover three areas: being heard as students and postdocs, being respected as junior faculty, and being recognized as senior faculty.
Topics discussed under "being heard as students and postdocs" will include 1) confronting stereotypes and microinequities in the classroom, 2) overcoming internalized stereotypes and socialization barriers , 3) overcoming stereotypes imposed by others, and 4) is the traditional coed classroom a ‘chilly climate’ for women?
Topics discussed under "being respected as junior faculty" will include 1) differences in teaching styles in the classroom, 2) the price of not ‘looking like a professor’, 3) the use of language – deferential vs assertive speech, 4) factors that impact on research accomplishments and success, and 5) factors that marginalize women.
Topics discussed under "being recognized as senior faculty" will include 1) the nature of one’s research program and 2) the contradictions that persist in academic medicine and science.
Presentations (see audio and PowerPoints from most presentations below)
Introduction
Susan Steinberg, M.D., Columbia University
Overview: Women in academic science and engineering -Beyond bias and barriers
Joan A. Steitz, Ph.D., Yale University
Leveling the playing field: A focus on students
Barbara A. Horwitz, Ph.D., University of California -Davis
Institutional strategies to improve the status of women
(No slides or audio available)
Jeanine M. D'Armiento, M.D., Ph.D., Columbia University Col. of Physicians & Surgeons
Succeeding in a male-dominated environment
Florence P. Haseltine, M.D., NICHD, NIH