Resources

Inequities Persist for Women and Non Tenure-Track Faculty


Tenure and Promotion

AAUP Report Blames Colleges for Gender Inequity among Professors

This report establishes four indicators of "gender equity" within the professoriate, and offers a listing of how 1,445 colleges and universities measure up in the hope that colleges will look at where they stand relative to their peers, and take steps to improve if they fall short (2007).

Good Practice in Tenure Evaluation: Advice for Tenured Faculty, Department Chairs, and Academic Administrators

PDF text gives practical guidance on how to reach desirable tenure outcomes (2000).

The Impact Factor Game

How a journal’s impact factor is calculated and its limitations of assessing the true impact of an individual publication in that journal (6 June 2006).

Giving and Getting Career Advice: A Guide for Junior and Senior Faculty

Marchant, Angela; Abhik Bhattacharya; and Molly Carnes. 2007. "Can the Language of Tenure Criteria Influence Women's Academic Advancement?" Journal of Women's Health. 16(7): 998-1003.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17903076

“The researchers examined whether the presence of the word "leader" in written tenure criteria may have a differential impact on promotion of men and women in elite medical schools”

Helgesen, Sally. The Female Advantage: Women’s Ways of Leadership. New York: Doubleday, 1990.

http://groups.ucanr.org/ANR_Leadership/Book_Reviews/The_Female_Advantage-_Women's_Ways_of_Leadership,_Helgeson.htm

“This book describes a study of four women leaders conducted in the eighties and contrasting it to a study published on How Men Lead by Mintzberg in 1973 using the same methodology identified as diary studies” (Reviewed by Carolyn Pickel, University of California, Statewide IPM Program)

Evans, Gail. She Wins, You Win: The Most Important Rules Every Woman Needs to Know. Gotham, 2004.

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/She-Wins-You-Win/Gail-Evans/e/9781592400591

“In her first book, Gail Evans showed women how to get ahead in the workplace by learning the unwritten rules of business that men "wrote" and play by” (Barnes & Noble synopsis)

Book, Ester Wachs. Why the Best Man for the Job Is a Woman: The Unique Female Qualities of Leadership. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 2001.

http://womensissues.about.com/od/intheworkplace/a/WomenLeaders.htm

“In her book Why the Best Man for the Job is a Woman: The Unique Female Qualities of Leadership, author Esther Wachs Book examines the careers of fourteen top female executives - among them Meg Whitman, President and CEO of eBay - to learn what makes them so successful” (About.com: Women’s Issues)

Key Behaviors That Will Help Advance Women and Other Faculty Groups

http://www.uri.edu/advance/files/pdf/Key_Behaviors.pdf

These activities are designed to help advance not only your new-hire, but also help maintain optimal conditions for success for all faculty in your department (University of Rhode Island)

University of Washington Faculty Retention Toolkit

http://www.uri.edu/advance/files/pdf/UWashington_RetentionToolkit.pdf

This toolkit was written to assist Department Chairs in retaining their faculty across all ranks

University of Illinois Promotion & Tenure Advice Tenure Narrative by Edward Bruner

http://advance.usu.edu/resources/1/Resources/Promotion%20&%20Tenure/Tenure%20Narrative.pdf

Bruner describes his experience while serving on the Tenure and Promotion Committee at the University of Illinois