Guide to Recruiting and Advancing Women Scientists and Engineers in Academia

Sponsored by the Burroughs Welcome Fund, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
the Sloan Foundation, and the National Science Foundation

This project will prepare a guide that will identify and discuss recruitment, retention, and promotion for women scientists and engineers in academia. The issues that the guide will address are: 1) recruitment of undergraduates and graduate students; 2) ways of reducing attrition in science and engineering degree programs in the early undergraduate years; 3) improving retention rates of women at critical transition points—from undergraduate to graduate student, from graduate student to postdoc, postdoc to first faculty position; 4) recruitment of women for tenure-track positions; 5) increasing the tenure rate for women faculty; and 6) increasing the numbers of women in administrative positions.