Gendered Predictors of a Positive Departmental Climate in the Sciences

• In Event: Roundtable Session 17
  In Roundtable Session: Faculty Community and Climate

Abstract

A faculty member’s department is his or her organizational, disciplinary, and academic home. The climate of one’s department has been found to play a significant role in faculty decisions to stay or leave the institution, particularly among women, and to be a key indicator in faculty job satisfaction. At the same time, relatively little research has examined the intersectionality of departmental climate with demographics and disciplines. In this study, we surveyed faculty from 23 departments in STEM and science-related fields at one predominately White, research institution in the United States (U.S.) to determine gender differences related to ratings of department climate.

Authors

• Susan K. Gardner, University of Maine

• Shannon K McCoy

• Lauren Hawthorne

• Daniela Véliz Calderón, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

• Amy Blackstone, University of Maine