Critical Issue #2: Success Standards
{"Image DocumentName": "Critical Issue #2: Success Standards", "Image ImageDescription": "A related climate issue. Some fields (such as STEM fields) present themselves as objective, in terms of criteria for success, but the system generally rewards those who behave like those who have come before them and have succeeded. It does not bend to incorporate factors that can help women succeed. Example: the long hours required to achieve meaningful research success within the first six or seven years of employment as a faculty member (tenure) Can be detrimental to mothers or women who want to be mothers. Can force women to choose between motherhood and career. And some policies designed to help women here might actually hurt. On that last point about some factors hurting women, mention. family leave policies that allow men to do additional research. how stopping a tenure clock might look to outside tenure reviewers", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}