Tilghman establishes
gender equity task force
Princeton NJ -- President Tilghman has created a task
force of faculty members who have been charged with
developing "a long-term strategy to attract and retain
highly talented women faculty in the natural sciences and
engineering departments at Princeton." The group will be
chaired by Virginia Zakian, the Harry Wiess Professor in the
Life Sciences.
The initiative, called the President's Task Force on the
Status of Women in Natural Sciences and Engineering at
Princeton, grew out of a workshop held at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in January. The presidents and
chancellors of nine research universities met to discuss
issues of gender equity in science and engineering. Former
President Harold Shapiro attended the workshop with Dean of
the Faculty Joseph Taylor and three faculty members, who
happened to include Tilghman. The others were Ruby Lee,
professor of electrical engineering, and Joan Girgus,
professor of psychology.
The workshop attendees agreed to analyze the salaries and
the proportion of other university resources provided to
women faculty and to work toward a faculty that reflects the
diversity of the student body. Leaders from the schools
agreed to reconvene within a year to share information on
the initiatives they are pursuing.
"We recognized that the question of gender equity
presents major challenges and may require changes not only
within universities themselves but also in the scientific
and engineering establishments as a whole," said Tilghman.
"We also realized that any course of action must be grounded
in a thorough understanding of the current situation."
As a first step, Tilghman has asked the committee to
collect and analyze data about Princeton's record in areas
such as salary, hiring, promotion, retention, teaching load
and allocation of research space and other research
resources.
Over the last six months, Taylor and Lin Ferrand,
associate dean of the faculty, already have begun collecting
information regarding these questions. Their work will form
the basis of the committee's further research and
analysis.
Ferrand, Girgus and Lee have been appointed to the task
force along with these faculty members: Bruce Draine,
astrophysical sciences; Catherine Peters, civil and
environmental engineering; Dan Rubenstein, ecology and
evolutionary biology; Sandra Troian, chemical engineering;
Suzanne Walker, chemistry; and Bess Ward, geosciences.
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October 1, 2001
Vol. 91, No. 4
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Contents
In the news
• Tilghman establishes
gender equity task force
• Rabitz pioneers
technique for tinkering with molecules
• Hitz: World must act
together to fight terrorism
• Katz works to
preserve Cuba's archives
People
• Princeton installs
eight new trustees
• Seamus Haney,
Richard Serra among Humanities Council visitors this
year
• Faculty
reappointed
• Employee medical
records available
• People/Spotlight
Sections
• By the
numbers
• Nassau
Notes
• Calendar
of events
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