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      Turning Chutes into Ladders for Women Faculty: A Review and Roadmap for Equity in Academia

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          Despite significant progress in recent decades, the recruitment, advancement, and promotion of women in academia remain low. Women represent a large portion of the talent pool in academia, and receive >50% of all PhDs, but this has not yet translated into sustained representation in faculty and leadership positions. Research indicates that women encounter numerous "chutes" that remove them from academia or provide setbacks to promotion at all stages of their careers. These include the perception that women are less competent and their outputs of lesser quality, implicit bias in teaching evaluations and grant funding decisions, and lower citation rates. This review aims to (1) synthesize the "chutes" that impede the careers of women faculty, and (2) provide feasible recommendations, or "ladders" for addressing these issues at all career levels. Enacting policies that function as "ladders" rather than "chutes" for academic women is essential to even the playing field, achieve gender equity, and foster economic, societal, and cultural benefits of academia.

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          Journal
          Journal of Women's Health
          Journal of Women's Health
          Mary Ann Liebert Inc
          1540-9996
          1931-843X
          February 11 2020
          Affiliations
          [1 ]Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics and Pediatrics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
          [2 ]Department of Kinesiology and Sport Management, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas.
          [3 ]Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama.
          [4 ]Department of Nutrition Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
          [5 ]Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama.
          [6 ]Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
          [7 ]Department of Allied Health Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut.
          [8 ]Department of Mathematics, Penn State University, State College, Pennsylvania.
          [9 ]Department of Health Behavior, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama.
          [10 ]Institute for Cancer Outcomes and Survivorship, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama.
          [11 ]Department of Medicine, Nutrition Obesity Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama.
          [12 ]Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences, Environmental School for Sustainable Infrastructure and the Environment (ESSIE), University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
          Article
          10.1089/jwh.2019.8027
          7247039
          32043918
          a516663e-8eb7-4264-8d4e-38c2b008281c
          © 2020

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