About Women in Science at California State University, Northridge
Purpose:
● To assist CSUN students to consider and face challenges in their academic and career development.
● To focus on women’s roles and influences, and how to improve the social environment within an academic and general setting.
● To provide resources to assist women's self-empowerment, and to encourage achievement in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)
● To provide a community and support system for women in STEM, and help find opportunities for careers and future goals
Why?
Despite the progress that our society has made to erase the strict gender roles that constrained both men and women in the past, including the influx of more women into the fields of STEM, women still have not achieved equitable levels of representation in the top tiers of research and engineering within academia or the private sector. Though in some fields like biology, women are now earning the majority of the undergraduate and graduate degrees, they still have a lower likelihood than their male counterparts in achieving tenure at Research 1 universities. We want to provide an open forum for women and men to learn more about the extent and the causes of these disparities, and to provide a supportive environment to discuss ways to foster greater gender equity through everyday interactions between the sexes, policies and institutional culture within workplaces, and through shifting the differential societal-level perception and treatment of genders.
● To assist CSUN students to consider and face challenges in their academic and career development.
● To focus on women’s roles and influences, and how to improve the social environment within an academic and general setting.
● To provide resources to assist women's self-empowerment, and to encourage achievement in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)
● To provide a community and support system for women in STEM, and help find opportunities for careers and future goals
Why?
Despite the progress that our society has made to erase the strict gender roles that constrained both men and women in the past, including the influx of more women into the fields of STEM, women still have not achieved equitable levels of representation in the top tiers of research and engineering within academia or the private sector. Though in some fields like biology, women are now earning the majority of the undergraduate and graduate degrees, they still have a lower likelihood than their male counterparts in achieving tenure at Research 1 universities. We want to provide an open forum for women and men to learn more about the extent and the causes of these disparities, and to provide a supportive environment to discuss ways to foster greater gender equity through everyday interactions between the sexes, policies and institutional culture within workplaces, and through shifting the differential societal-level perception and treatment of genders.