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Program seeks to ADVANCE women in the sciences.(National Science Foundation's women educational program)
When the famous MIT report on women in science and engineering erupted in 2001, women finally had vindication that their problems in achieving success in academe were institutional, not personal.
Too few women still choose careers in academic science and engineering. Although women earn more than 50% of doctorates to U.S. residents, they are only about 20% of the science and engineering workforce and faculty in four-year schools.
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The National Science Foundation's ADVANCE program aims to change all that. Alice Hogan, the NSF program director, spoke about the program and its goals at the College and University Work Family Association (CUWFA) conference in Atlanta in February.
ADVANCE creates mobility
Launched in 2001 after the MIT report, the ADVANCE program seeks to increase the number of women in academic science and engineering. The strategy is to move women up the ranks through the transformation of institutional culture, practices and policies that now prevent them from reaching their full potential.
"From the NSF perspective, we were worried about the health of the academic science and engineering workforce," said Hogan. "We've educated women, got PhDs and have human capital, but they're not used in an academic marketplace. It's a persistent, pervasive and complex problem."
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