Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Understanding and Improving Female Faculty Experiences in STEM

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deborah Ilana Karpman, University of California San Diego

Tagged Topics

ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity, Engineering Deans Council

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

explainedwhy she did not decide to utilize the “stop the clock” option:I feel like it [tenure clock extension] will just push me back, and then the [male faculty] advance;the other people advanced a lot faster if I automatically get the clock pushback. If I started at thesame time as a male colleague [but] I’m being pushed back automatically, I’ll be forever behindhim. I don’t like that.Of course, if I need it, I think there should be the flexibility for me to apply for it. A lot of times,I feel like, why are females being slowed down? Because they said, “Oh, you can do this later,you can do that later,” or they automatically push you back. Then just because you had a childand then they feel like you’re not good enough, even if you said, “I don’t want