How women faculty members in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields experience the promotion, tenure, and reappointment process with respect to their service work

Permanent URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2047/D20316536
Title:
How women faculty members in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields experience the promotion, tenure, and reappointment process with respect to their service work
Creator:
O'Brien-Knotts, Jennifer (Author)
Contributor:
Bicknell, Brian (Advisor)
McNabb, Joseph (Advisor)
Levine, Marci (Committee member)
Language:
English
Publisher:
Boston, Massachusetts : Northeastern University, 2019
Copyright date:
2019
Date Accepted:
March 2019
Date Awarded:
March 2019
Type of resource:
Text
Genre:
Doctoral theses
Format:
electronic
Digital origin:
born digital
Abstract/Description:
Males have long led colleges and universities. As gendered organizations, academia has taken on traditions and expectations from the male viewpoint. Research has shown that female faculty members are not being promoted through the ranks as quickly or as often as their male counterparts. The purpose of this Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) is to understand how women faculty members in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields experience the promotion, tenure and reappointment process with respect to their service work. The main question the researcher sought to answer was: How do female faculty in STEM fields experience the promotion, tenure, and reappointment process with respect to their service work? Data was collected through interviews with four women faculty in STEM fields who had experience with the promotion, tenure, and reappointment process at Lehigh University. Results indicated that female faculty members in STEM fields at the rank of associate professor feel significant service burden that takes time away from their research, which in turn, has a negative impact on their promotability. These same feel the promotion, tenure, and reappointment process is harder for them as women as compared to their male counterparts. This research demonstrates that research institutions need to adjust current practices to help ease female faculty members' service burden and/or to adjust what is valued during the promotion, tenure, and reappointment process.
Subjects and keywords:
faculty
female faculty
gender equity
promotion
research institution
service work
Higher education administration
Higher education
Education
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17760/D20316536
Permanent URL:
http://hdl.handle.net/2047/D20316536
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