A Study on the Status of Women Faculty in Science at MIT
A Study on the Status of Women Faculty in Science at MIT
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麻省理工学院理科女教师地位研究
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1999
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通讯作者：
L. Bailyn
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R. Birgeneau;L. Bailyn
我向我所有的教职员工推荐这项关于女性科学教师的研究。请阅读它，思考它的信息和信息，并以个人和集体的方式采取行动。我从这份报告和起草报告时的讨论中吸取了两个特别重要的教训。首先，我一直认为，当代大学中的性别歧视部分是现实，部分是观念。确实如此，但我现在明白，到目前为止，现实才是平衡的更大部分。第二，我和我的大多数男同事一样，相信我们非常支持我们的年轻女教师。这也是事实。他们通常是内容和良好的支持，在许多方面，但不是所有方面。然而，当我坐在椅子上时，一位年长的女士说：“我年轻时也感到非常积极。“我们可以为这些妇女在这个问题上进行的坦率对话和我们取得的进展感到自豪，但仍有许多工作要做。我们非常多样化的学生群体必须由一个同样多样化的教师相匹配。我们必须通过我们的机构承诺和政策，加倍努力，使之成为现实。本报告描述了科学学院一群杰出的女教师为了解和改善学术界歧视的长期影响所做的努力。我相信在任何情况下，这种歧视都不是有意识或故意的。事实上，它通常是完全无意识和无知的。尽管如此，其影响过去和现在都是真实的。已经采取了一些小步骤来扭转几十年歧视的影响，但在实现真正的平等和平等待遇之前，我们还有很多工作要做。目前，我们在麻省理工学院的本科生群体相当好地反映了美国人口的显著多样性和丰富性。另一方面，我们的教员仍然是绝大多数白色男性。当然，这意味着我们没有利用绝大多数人口的巨大才能来填补我们的教师队伍。这对学生、教师和整个麻省理工学院都是不利的。纠正这种极端的不平衡是麻省理工学院面临的主要挑战之一，因为我们进入下一个千年。本报告是这一进程中至关重要的第一步。我祝贺我们的...
I commend this study of Women Faculty in Science to all of my faculty colleagues. Please read it, contemplate its messages and information, and act upon it personally and collectively. I learned two particularly important lessons from this report and from discussions while it was being crafted. First, I have always believed that contemporary gender discrimination within universities is part reality and part perception. True, but I now understand that reality is by far the greater part of the balance. Second, I, like most of my male colleagues, believe that we are highly supportive of our junior women faculty members. This also is true. They generally are content and well supported in many, though not all dimensions. However, I sat bolt upright in my chair when a senior woman, who has felt unfairly treated for some time, said " I also felt very positive when I was young. " We can take pride in the candor of dialog that these women have brought to this issue and in the progress that we have made, but much remains to be done. Our remarkably diverse student body must be matched by an equally diverse faculty. Through our institutional commitment and policies we must redouble our efforts to make this a reality. This report describes the efforts of an extraordinary group of women faculty in the School of Science to understand and ameliorate the long-term effects of discrimination in academia. I believe that in no case was this discrimination conscious or deliberate. Indeed, it was usually totally unconscious and unknowing. Nevertheless, the effects were and are real. Some small steps have been taken to reverse the effects of decades of discrimination, but we still have a great deal more to accomplish before true equality and equal treatment will have been achieved. Currently, our undergraduate body at MIT reflects reasonably well the remarkable diversity and richness of the American population. Our faculty, on the other hand, remains overwhelmingly white male. This, of course, means that we are not taking advantage of the tremendous talents of the absolute majority of the population in filling our faculty ranks. This is to the detriment of the students , the faculty, and MIT as a whole. Correcting this extreme imbalance is one of the major challenges that MIT faces as we enter the next millennium. This report is a critical first step in that process. I congratulate our …