Gender Equity in STEM

Close examination of the status of women science and engineering faculty at four-year colleges and universities reveals that women not only remain disproportionately underrepresented in STEM disciplines, such as engineering and physics, but also are precipitously lost through transitions to upper professorial ranks in all STEM disciplines, generally. This issue explores current trends in higher education related to recruiting, retaining and advancing STEM women and women of color faculty.

Table of Contents

Editorial

From the Editor

By Shelley Johnson Carey

The Twenty-First-Century Case for Inclusive Excellence in STEM

Patrice McDermott, University of Maryland Baltimore County; and Kelly M. Mack, AAC&U and Project Kaleidoscope

Analysis

Who Is Minding the Gap?

Claudia Rankins, National Science Foundation; Falcon Rankins, PRISSEM Academic Services LLC; and Tasha Inniss, Spelman College

Practice

Realigning the Crooked Room: Spelman Claims a Space for African American Women in STEM

Kimberly M. Jackson and Leyte L. Winfield, both of Spelman College

The Jessica Effect: Valuing Cultural and Familial Connections to Broaden Success in Academe

Renetta G. Tull, University of Maryland Baltimore County; Patricia Ordóñez, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras; Frances D. Carter-Johnson, National Institutes of Health; Beatriz Zayas, Universidad Metropolitana; Angela Byars-Winston, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Maria Nandadevi Cortes Rodriguez, University of Maryland Baltimore County

Academic Women: Overlooked Entrepreneurs

Samantha A. Howe, Mary C. Juhas, and Joan M. Herbers; all of The Ohio State University

Research

Mission Possible: Empowering Institutions with Strategies for Change

Jasna Jovanovic, California Polytechnic State University–San Luis Obispo; and Mary A. Armstrong, Lafayette College

Always the Exception: Women and Women of Color Scientists in Historical Perspective

Douglas M. Haynes, University of California–Irvine

Reality Check

If Not Now, When? The Promise of STEM Intersectionality in the Twenty-First Century

Nancy Cantor, University of Rutgers–Newark and AAC&U; Kelly M. Mack, AAC&U and Project Kaleidoscope; Patrice McDermott, University of Maryland Baltimore County and AAC&U; Orlando L. Taylor, Fielding Graduate University, the Chicago School of Professional Psychology—Washington, DC, Campus, and AAC&U

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