Gender Equity Task Force
Provost Hogan appointed the Gender Equity Task Force in fall 2005 to take a broad look at the status of women faculty at The University of Iowa and recommend changes and programs to increase the number of women faculty and improve their quality of life.
- Final Report and Recommendations (pdf) - May 1, 2006
- Provost Hogan's e-mail to faculty, staff, and students inviting comment on the report - May 11, 2006
- News release: Provost Releases Report Of Gender Equity Task Force - May 11, 2006
- News release: Provost Announces New Initiatives To Enhance Gender Equity For Faculty - April 2, 2007
- Report on a Study of Gender and Ethnic Minority Equity in Faculty Salaries at The University of Iowa, 2004-05
Task Force Charge
The Gender Equity Task force will take a broad look at the status of women faculty at The University of Iowa and recommend changes and programs to increase the number of women faculty and improve their quality of life. The Task Force will consider the following issues, among others:
- Support that women faculty receive for research (e.g., lab and office space, equipment funding, RA support, etc.);
- Opportunities (and barriers) for women to develop successful careers as researchers and/or in higher level administrative positions;
- Support (and barriers) for women attaining tenure, full professorship, and named chairs and professorships. Specifically, what are the root causes of women's under-representation among full professors and named positions, and what can be done to address them (possibilities include such things as inadequate support/recognition for integrating work, family, and community life; inequitable service burdens either voluntarily or as assignments; and disproportionate exodus from The University of Iowa or the academy altogether).
Task Force Membership
- Pat Cain, Vice Provost
- Lee Anna Clark, Associate Provost for Faculty
- Corey Creekmur, Associate Professor, English
- Robin Davisson, Associate Professor, Anatomy & Cell Biology
- Maureen Donovan, Associate Professor, Pharmaceutics
- Jennifer Glass, Professor, Sociology
- Beth Ingram, Professor, Economics
- Jean Jew, Professor, Anatomy & Cell Biology
- Linda Kerber, May Brodbeck Professor, History
- Craig Kletzing, Associate Professor, Physics & Astronomy
- Tonya Peeple, Associate Professor, Chemical & Biochemical Engineering
- Catherine Ringen, Professor, Linguistics
- Tom Rocklin, Associate Provost for Faculty Development
- Jarjisu Sa-Aadu, Professor, Finance
- Victoria Sharp, Associate Professor, Urology
- Adrien Wing, Professor, Law (Chair)
Links
Articles
- Working Toward Motherhood - Chronicle of Higher Education, February 17, 2006
- Making Room for Baby - Inside Higher Education, January 30, 2006
- Is Your Husband a Worse Problem Than Larry Summers? - Inside Higher Education, December 9, 2005
- Diversity Goals - Inside Higher Education, November 15, 2005
- New Rights for Pregnant Grad Students - Inside Higher Education, November 15, 2005
- Slow Gains for Women in Humanities, Social Sciences - Princeton Alumni Weekly, November 2, 2005
- A Diversity Candidate in Every Pool - Inside Higher Education, October 14, 2005
- Bias Against Caregiving - Academe, September-October 2005
- Princeton Changes Tenure Policy to Stem "Mommy Trap" - Diverse Online, September 22, 2005
- No Credit Where Credit Is Due: Attributional Rationalization of Women's Success in Male-Female Teams - Journal of Applied Psychology Vol 90(5), September 2005
- Princeton Resets Family-Friendly Tenure Clock - Science vol. 309(#5739), August 26, 2005 (scroll to bottom of page)
- Stress and the Female Faculty Member - Inside Higher Education, August 23, 2005
- The Barriers, and Beyond - Newsweek, August 22, 2005
- More Women in Science - Science vol. 309(#5738), August 19, 2005
- For Women in Sciences, Slow Progress in Academia - The New York Times, April 15, 2005
- We Must Make the Academic Workplace More Humane and Equitable - Chronicle of Higher Education, March 18, 2005
- Job Gender Surveys May End: Agency Wants to Stop Collecting Male vs. Female Numbers - Washington Post, January 12, 2005
- "Balancing Faculty Careers and Family Work"
issue - Academe, November-December
2004
- Do Babies Matter (Part II)? Closing the Baby Gap
- Hitting the Maternal Wall
- Balancing Work and Family for Faculty: Why It's Important
- Developing and Implementing Work-Family Policies for Faculty
- Fear Factor: How Safe Is It to Make Time for Family?
- Family-Friendly Policies and the Research University
- Working Part Time After Tenure
- Do Babies Matter? The Effect of Family Formation on the Lifelong Careers of Academic Men and Women - Academe, November-December 2002
- IT study finds female faculty members feel marginalized - Chronicle of Higher Education, March 20, 2002
- Elitism, Excellence, or Both at the National Academy of Sciences? Critics question why so few female and minority scholars are elected - Chronicle of Higher Education, May 11, 2001
- An MIT Professor's Suspicion of Bias Leads to a New Movement for Academic Women Chronicle of Higher Education - December 3, 1999
Reports
- An Agenda for Excellence: Creating Flexibility in Tenure Track Faculty Careers - American Council on Higher Education, 2005
- Report of the Committee to Consider a More Flexible Tenure Probationary Period - University of Michigan, June 30, 2005
- To Phase or Not to Phase: The Dynamics of Choosing Phased Retirement in Academe - TIAA-CREF Institute, September 2004
- Graduate Programs Climate Study - The University of Iowa, Spring 2003
- Taskforce on the Recruitment and Retention of Women and Minority Faculty Report - Iowa State University, May 2003
- Creating Gender Equity in Academia: Equal Rights Advocates' Higher Education Advocacy Project Roundtable Report
