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16445: Nevertheless They Persisted: Supporting Women’s Success as Academics

Sunday, July 27, 2025
12:00 - 15:00 CEST (GMT+2)
Location: Bella Center: Auditorium 12
Session Type: PDW (workshop)
Highlight: DIG Highlight
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/wjA7Yj
Women academics face challenging circumstances in their professional lives. Relative to their male colleagues, they can expect longer review times, less credit for their research contributions when working in a team, biased evaluations of their teaching from students, and cultures that are more likely to frame men through a professional lens and women through personal and physical lenses. Many of these effects have been shown to be heightened where gender intersects with other marginalized demographics such as race. In addition, women faculty often have few women colleagues at a similar career stage, and it is easy to personalize negative experiences as a woman academic and overlook institutionalized barriers to success. We can also lose sight of the allies, supporters, and mentors who catalyze our ability to persist or our ability to act as insider social change agents to build stronger communities of practice. Through this PDW, we offer a three-pronged approach to helping women academics and allies broaden their sight to see their environments more clearly and grow a feeling of community, support, and self-efficacy. We will share stories of persistence, highlight work by academics in this area, and work towards recommendations for leadership and communities of practice to support women academics. This PDW builds off the success of the past seven years of “Nevertheless she persisted” PDWs to emphasize the ways in which women and their allies working together help each other to succeed.