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2024 AOM Annual Meeting

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812: Nevertheless She Persisted: Supporting Women’s Success as Academics (15253)

Sunday, August 11, 2024
13:00 – 16:30 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)
Location: Swissotel: Élevé Lake View
Session Number: 812
PDW (workshop)
Orientation: Theme
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/bRpWGL
Women academics face challenging circumstances in their professional lives. Relative to their male colleagues, they can expect longer review times (Hengel, 2016), less credit for their research contributions when working in a team (Sarsons, 2017), biased evaluations of their teaching from students (Mengel, et al., 2017, Boring, et al., 2016), and cultures that are more likely to frame men through a professional lens and women through personal and physical lenses (Wu, 2017; Wolfers, 2017; Rivera, 2017). Many of these effects have been shown to be heightened where gender intersects with other marginalized demographics such as race (Miller and Roksa 2020). In the face of this rough terrain facing women in academia, it can be easy to lose sight of the institutionalized barriers to success as a woman academic and personalize negative experiences. We can also lose sight of the allies, supporters, and mentors who catalyze our ability to persist or our ability to act as insider social change agents to build stronger communities of practice. Through this PDW, we offer a three-pronged approach to helping women academics and allies broaden their sight to develop and grow a feeling of community, support, and self-efficacy. We will share stories of persistence, highlight work by academics on this area, and work towards recommendations for leadership and communities of practice to support women academics. This PDW builds off the success of the past six years of “Nevertheless she persisted” PDWs to emphasize the ways in which women and their allies working together help each other to succeed.