Promoting Mentoring Among and For Women in Chemistry: The Experiences of COACh
| dc.contributor.author | Stockard, Jean | |
| dc.contributor.author | Greene, Jessica | |
| dc.contributor.author | Lewis, Priscilla | |
| dc.contributor.author | Richmond, Geraldine | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-06-05T16:12:08Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-06-05T16:12:08Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2010-06-20 | |
| dc.description | 11 pages | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | A growing body of research documents numerous factors that contribute to women's under-representation in the top tiers of technical and scientific fields. This literature describes the ways in which biases against women, particularly those that are more subtle and implicit, can translate into lower salaries, slower rates of promotion, and less recognition through honors and awards for women relative to their male colleagues (Committee on Science, 2007; Greene, et al, 2010b; Valian, 1999). In 1999 a small group of senior women chemistry faculty from around the United States began meeting to discuss their concerns that women in their field were not experiencing the same career opportunities and advancement patterns as men. With seed funding from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, they formed an organization called COACh, the Committee for the Advancement of Women Chemists. Over the last decade COACh has sponsored numerous career-oriented workshops for women chemists as well as workshops for department heads. One aspect of this work is encouraging mentorship relationships for and by women, an area recognized by the COACh founders as important for career advancement. This paper uses data gathered by COACh to examine women chemists' mentorship experiences and then discusses ways that COACh has promoted mentoring and the apparent results of these efforts. We end with a brief discussion of future research that needs to be done in this area and lessons for policy and action. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 9780841225923 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/bk-2010-1057.ch011 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/29499 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | American Chemical Society | en_US |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons BY | en_US |
| dc.subject | COACh | en_US |
| dc.subject | women chemists | en_US |
| dc.subject | chemistry | en_US |
| dc.subject | mentoring | en_US |
| dc.subject | mentoring workshops | en_US |
| dc.title | Promoting Mentoring Among and For Women in Chemistry: The Experiences of COACh | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |