Creating a Favorable Work Climate: Retention Scenario

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Review the following Climate scenario and select the correct answer(s) based on the insight gained from the Increasing Women in Neuroscience course. This question was adapted from the Stewardship Workgroup of the University of Arizona ADVANCE program.

Your institution has adopted a strategic goal of increasing gender diversity among faculty which will include items such as salary parity and equal start-up packages for men and women.

As department chair, what are some things you could do to supplement the institution’s actions to increase retention of female faculty? (Check all that apply)

Ensure that all department-wide meeting are scheduled at times that do not conflict with hours at which stakeholders with evening family-care responsibilities might be unavailable.

Make sure there is at least one woman’s name on every grant proposal submitted by the department.

Invite more women to join committees, regardless of whether you intend to have them play meaningful roles.

Create a women’s working group, open to all, that talks about pathways to career success for women and strategies for overcoming obstacles along those pathways.