Gender Equity in a Department of Energy National Laboratory: Report of a COACh-Sponsored Survey, Interviews, and Workshop Experience
| dc.contributor.author | Stockard, Jean | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-04-26T21:14:56Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-04-26T21:14:56Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015-09 | |
| dc.description | 9 pages | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The DOE Sponsored National Laboratories perform work considered crucial to sustaining national scientific and technical capabilities. Employing the most talented and accomplished scientists through tapping the nation’s wide diversity of expertise is central to their success. Yet, only a small proportion of the research staff at national labs are women, and the percentages are even smaller in leadership positions, proportions that appear to be noticeably smaller than in the academic sector. COACh was invited to conduct a workshop on employee negotiations at one national lab in the spring of 2013 and, as part of this process, gathered information about the career concerns of women scientists at the lab. Data gathered from written surveys, formal interviews, and observations at the workshop indicate that the women were highly dedicated to their science and enjoyed their work. However, the vast majority also expressed concerns related to workplace climate, communication between management and staff, transparency of procedures and policies, and opportunities for advancement. While the majority of interviewees felt that they had not personally experienced gender inequities, they thought that other individuals and experienced them and/or that they were evident at an organizational level. Three general recommendations regarding COACh support for the lab were derived: 1) employee training regarding communication and management skills, career development and networking, work-life balance, and cross-cultural communication; 2) consultation on developing effective processes for promoting greater equity, and 3) monitoring the lab’s progress in promoting equity. The success of the National Science Foundation sponsored ADVANCE program in promoting equity in the academic world is cited as a possible model for promoting equity in the national labs. Understanding the extent to which the concerns expressed by the women in the lab discussed in this report generalize to other settings is a crucial first step in the process. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Gender Equity in a Department of Energy National Laboratory: Report of a COACh-Sponsored Survey, Interviews, and Workshop Experience”, J. Stockard and G.L. Richmond, September 2015. University of Oregon, Eugene: COACh. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/29366 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | COACh | en_US |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US | en_US |
| dc.subject | Department of Energy | en_US |
| dc.subject | COACh | en_US |
| dc.subject | Lab Women | en_US |
| dc.subject | survey | en_US |
| dc.title | Gender Equity in a Department of Energy National Laboratory: Report of a COACh-Sponsored Survey, Interviews, and Workshop Experience | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |