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3459 - Women’s STEM Underrepresentation: Roles of Employees, Organizations, and Institutions

Mon, August 13, 2:30 to 4:10pm, Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 4, 414

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

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This session considers the workplace-based policies and practices that discourage or encourage women’s perseverance in science and technology occupations, drawing on data from women and men STEM employees and from the executives in charge of advancing such women. The session also considers the institutional-level tensions NSF’s ADVANCE program faces as it engages with universities in knowledge-production while seeking to promote gender equality.

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