Journal
SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY & HUMAN VALUES
Volume 40, Issue 4, Pages 487-515Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0162243914564074
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genders; labor; academic disciplines and traditions
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- National Science Foundation
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This article addresses a telling issue in academic science: the clarity of criteria for tenure and promotion reported by women and men faculty in scientific fields. Data from faculty surveyed in nine US research universities point to ways that formal and informal organizational indicators predict the clarity of evaluation reported by women and men. Unexpected patterns occur by gender. Among men, both formal and informal organizational indicators, as well as field, predict their reported clarity of evaluation. Among women, however, only informal organizational indicators, namely, frequency of speaking with faculty about research and departmental climate, are significant predictors. Further, overall, informal indicators are stronger predictors of clarity than are formal indicators, and some field differences occur. These findings have implications for national and regional science policies and for the practices and policies of universities.
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