Collection

2010 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Shauna A. Morimoto; Anna M. Zajicek; Valerie H. Hunt; Joseph J. Rencis

. students in sciences face a higher degree of isolation and morebarriers to integration into departmental cultures, faculty members play an especially importantrole in shaping the experiences of female students. Herzig’s13 examination of the experiences ofgraduate women in mathematics is instructive on these issues. Herzig13 notes that students whoare more integrated into the academic and social communities of their departments are morelikely to persist in graduate school. Faculty play an important role as mentors and as agents ofsocialization for graduate students; moreover, negative interactions with faculty have pervasiveeffects on women in science.  Women described their limited or negative relationships withfaculty, including: feeling