Achieving XXcellence in Science: Role of Professional Societies in Advancing Women in Science: Proceedings of a Workshop, AXXS 2002

FIGURE 2 Pathways model.

SOURCE: National Institutes of Health, Office of Research on Women’s Health, AXXS ’99, Achieving XXcellence in Science, Advancing Women’s Contribution to Science through Professional Societies, Marino, “A Pathways Model for Career Progression in Science,” pp. 15-19.

I set up a pathways model for taking people from cradle to grave, using rate constants to describe how we get people through those steps (see Figure 2). But how do we keep people on the pathway and keep them moving forward through that progression? In this presentation I’m going to take each of these steps and talk a little bit about what happens at them in terms of national numbers and women.

Looking at the Numbers⁷

We send kids into schools and we spend lots of money telling them that they should go into science. When we look at the numbers we see that 52 percent of

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The following material is drawn from: National Institutes of Health, Office of Research on Women’s Health, Bethesda, MD., 1999; AXXS ’99, Achieving XXcellence in Science, Advancing Women’s Contribution to Science through Professional Societies, Marino, “A Pathways Model for Career Progression in Science,” pp. 15-19.

Table of Contents

Front Matter R1-R10

Session I: Welcoming Remarks and Opening Keynote AddressWelcoming Remarks 1-4

Opening Keynote Address: How Far We Have Come, How Far We Still Have to Go: How Women Saved American Medicine 5-10

Session II: Presentations and Panel DiscussionOpening Remarks 11-20

Keynote Address: Women in Science and Medicine 21-27

From AXXS 28-32

A Pathways Model for Career Progression in Science 33-37

Advancing Women in Academic Medicine 38-42

Panel: Differences Between Basic and Clinical Disciplines 43-54

Women in Leadership 55-58

Session III: Reports of Breakout SessionsReports of Breakout Sessions 59-66

Session IV: Closing Plenary Closing Remarks: Achieving XXcellence 67-82

Appendix A: Workshop Agenda 83-87

Appendix B: Workshop Participants and Speakers 88-100

Looking at the Numbers⁷

Table of Contents

Front Matter R1-R10

Session I: Welcoming Remarks and Opening Keynote AddressWelcoming Remarks 1-4

Opening Keynote Address: How Far We Have Come, How Far We Still Have to Go: How Women Saved American Medicine 5-10

Session II: Presentations and Panel DiscussionOpening Remarks 11-20

Keynote Address: Women in Science and Medicine 21-27

From AXXS 28-32

A Pathways Model for Career Progression in Science 33-37

Advancing Women in Academic Medicine 38-42

Panel: Differences Between Basic and Clinical Disciplines 43-54

Women in Leadership 55-58

Session III: Reports of Breakout SessionsReports of Breakout Sessions 59-66

Session IV: Closing Plenary Closing Remarks: Achieving XXcellence 67-82

Appendix A: Workshop Agenda 83-87

Appendix B: Workshop Participants and Speakers 88-100

Looking at the Numbers7

Looking at the Numbers⁷