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Why so Few, Still? Challenges to Attracting, Advancing, and Keeping Women Faculty of Color in Academia
From its earliest beginnings, the university was not designed for women, and certainly not for women of color. Women of color in the United States are disproportionately under-represented in academia and are conspicuous by their absence across disciplines at senior ranks, particularly at research-in...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8804352/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35118155 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2021.792198 |
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description | From its earliest beginnings, the university was not designed for women, and certainly not for women of color. Women of color in the United States are disproportionately under-represented in academia and are conspicuous by their absence across disciplines at senior ranks, particularly at research-intensive universities. This absence has an epistemic impact and affects future generations of scholars who do not see themselves represented in the academy. What are the barriers to attracting, advancing, and retaining women faculty of color in academia? To address this question we review empirical studies that document disparities in the assessment of research, teaching, and service in academia that have distinct implications for the hiring, promotion, and professional visibility of women of color. We argue that meaningful change in the representation, equity, and prestige of women faculty of color will require validating their experiences, supporting and valuing their research, creating opportunities for their professional recognition and advancement, and implementing corrective action for unjust assessment practices. |
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spelling | pubmed-88043522022-02-02 Why so Few, Still? Challenges to Attracting, Advancing, and Keeping Women Faculty of Color in Academia Fox Tree, Jean E. Vaid, Jyotsna Front Sociol Sociology From its earliest beginnings, the university was not designed for women, and certainly not for women of color. Women of color in the United States are disproportionately under-represented in academia and are conspicuous by their absence across disciplines at senior ranks, particularly at research-intensive universities. This absence has an epistemic impact and affects future generations of scholars who do not see themselves represented in the academy. What are the barriers to attracting, advancing, and retaining women faculty of color in academia? To address this question we review empirical studies that document disparities in the assessment of research, teaching, and service in academia that have distinct implications for the hiring, promotion, and professional visibility of women of color. We argue that meaningful change in the representation, equity, and prestige of women faculty of color will require validating their experiences, supporting and valuing their research, creating opportunities for their professional recognition and advancement, and implementing corrective action for unjust assessment practices. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-01-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8804352/ /pubmed/35118155 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2021.792198 Text en Copyright © 2022 Fox Tree and Vaid. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Sociology Fox Tree, Jean E. Vaid, Jyotsna Why so Few, Still? Challenges to Attracting, Advancing, and Keeping Women Faculty of Color in Academia |
title | Why so Few, Still? Challenges to Attracting, Advancing, and Keeping Women Faculty of Color in Academia |
title_full | Why so Few, Still? Challenges to Attracting, Advancing, and Keeping Women Faculty of Color in Academia |
title_fullStr | Why so Few, Still? Challenges to Attracting, Advancing, and Keeping Women Faculty of Color in Academia |
title_full_unstemmed | Why so Few, Still? Challenges to Attracting, Advancing, and Keeping Women Faculty of Color in Academia |
title_short | Why so Few, Still? Challenges to Attracting, Advancing, and Keeping Women Faculty of Color in Academia |
title_sort | why so few, still? challenges to attracting, advancing, and keeping women faculty of color in academia |
topic | Sociology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8804352/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35118155 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2021.792198 |
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