Maintaining Career Momentum: Women-Centered Strategies for Social Sciences Career Success in the Context of COVID-19

Courtney M. Cronley, Kirsten E. Ravi
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The COVID-19 pandemic poses unforeseen risks to women’s academic career advancement. Women faculty are more likely to be grappling with new challenges related to caregiving and work-life balance, compared to their male colleagues, and may be facing more research obstacles due to the disruption of human-subjects data collection. In the following essay, we, two tenure-stream social scientists, describe four strategies that we have relied on to maintain career momentum: staying passionate, engaging in active mentorship, making virtual connections, and launching research in COVID. We conclude with recommendations for institutions of higher education to formalize specific policies to support gender and intersectional equity in career advancement. These include more formalized mentor programs, professional development for and access to technology resources for the purposes of research, institutional training and support in leading research teams, seed grants for racial and gender disparities research, and pro-family policies that provide financial supports and job security in the context of caregiving.
保持职业动力:新冠肺炎背景下以女性为中心的社会科学职业成功策略
新冠肺炎大流行给女性学术职业发展带来了不可预见的风险。与男同事相比,女教师更有可能应对与护理和工作与生活平衡相关的新挑战,并且由于人类受试者数据收集的中断,可能面临更多的研究障碍。在下面的文章中,我们,两位终身制社会科学家,描述了我们保持职业动力所依赖的四种策略:保持激情、积极指导、建立虚拟联系和开展新冠肺炎研究。最后,我们建议高等教育机构正式制定具体政策,支持职业发展中的性别和跨部门公平。其中包括更正式的导师计划、研究目的的专业发展和技术资源的获取、领导研究团队的机构培训和支持、种族和性别差异研究的种子拨款,以及在护理方面提供财政支持和工作保障的亲家庭政策。
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