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Equitable Solutions for Retaining a Robust STEM Workforce: Beyond Best Practices de Donna J. Dean

Equitable Solutions for Retaining a Robust STEM Workforce: Beyond Best Practices

Autor Donna J. Dean, Janet B. Koster
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 feb 2014
Equitable Solutions for Retaining a Robust STEM Workforce offers strategies and proven recommendations to accommodate work/life satisfaction for those in the STEM fields. Using real-life case studies, this book discusses universal issues such as dual careers and strategic decision making, childcare/dependent care in professional contexts, promoting family-friendly policies, as well as mentoring and networking. Equitable Solutions for Retaining a Robust STEM Workforce provides data and tools to drive successful programs relaying proactive solutions that STEM employers, academic institutions, policy-makers, and individuals can utilize.

  • Distills and leverages best practices and internationally transportable policies to support and accommodate STEM work/life satisfaction
  • Serves as an action plan to help STEM employers, policy makers and academic institutions identify and create systemic change
  • Includes case studies and practical tools sections to highlight effective integration strategies
  • Addresses a variety of work/life challenges, including supporting travel for dual-career couples, making strategic choices around work/life issues, and overcoming implicit bias
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780128002155
ISBN-10: 0128002158
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: ELSEVIER SCIENCE

Public țintă

Those pursuing or involved in a career in the STEM fields, including students, academics, and regulatory and industry professionals.Additional markets include policymakers, academic and professional women’s organizations, and those involved in professional development training.

Cuprins

PART 1: Surveying the LandscapeI. Envisioning the STEM Workplace of the Future: The Need for Work/Life Programs and Family-Friendly Practices II. Work/Life Integration Challenges Are WorldwidePART 2: Award-Winning SolutionsIII. Addressing Work/Life IssuesIV. Dual Careers and Strategic Decision MakingV. Childcare and Dependent Care in Professional ContextsVI. Promoting Family-Friendly PoliciesPART 3: Advancing Comprehensive SolutionsVII. Mentoring and Networking StrategiesVIII. Addressing Implicit Bias and the WorkplaceIX. Government Policy Implications for Family-Related Issues

Recenzii

"Equitable Solutions for Retaining a Robust STEM Workforce offers strategies and proven recommendations to accommodate work/life satisfaction for those in the STEM fields. Using real-life case studies, this book discusses universal issues such as dual careers and strategic decision making, childcare/dependent care in professional contexts.." --Goodreads.com, February 24, 2014"Although work/life satisfaction is typically regarded as a women’s issue, ‘Equitable Solutions’…finds that it is an issue that crosses gender lines… the book was developed to provide both academic and private sector STEM work environments with the tools they need to retain their workforce, especially women." --Westcoast Women in Engineering Science, & Technology blog, February 14, 2014