Retirement: Dollars and sense

Expanding the landscape of opportunity: Professional societies support early-career researchers through community programming and peer coaching.

“…institutional support, disproportionate service requests, citation biases, funding gaps, pay disparities, lack of retirement and other benefits, family obligations, motherhood penalty, job insecurity, frequent relocation stress, competitive job markets, gender-biased discrimination, racial inequities, interpersonal factors, minority tax, and lack of mentoring (Brown, 2017;Campbell & Rodríguez, 2019;Chatterjee & Werner, 2021;Feldon et al, 2015;Isler et al, 2021;Jimenez et al, 2019;Kricorian et al, 2020;Lambert et al, 2020;Munton, 1990;Nauman et al, 2020;Advance NPA, 2011;Ong et al, 2018;Rodríguez et al, 2021;Taffe & Gilpin, 2021;Wang & Ackerman, 2020;Winkle-Wagner, 2009;Witteman et al, 2019). Simply acknowledging and raising awareness of these biases and disadvantages is insufficient in mitigating their adverse effects.…”

“…Women and minoritized people have made considerable contributions to comparative psychology, yet their inclusion and promotion in the academy lag behind their representation in the general population. Marginalized scholars are less likely to advance academically than their majority colleagues who are of comparable seniority (Pickett, 2017; Stevens et al, 2021), in large part due to factors such as social isolation, disparities in network access, inequitable institutional support, disproportionate service requests, citation biases, funding gaps, pay disparities, lack of retirement and other benefits, family obligations, motherhood penalty, job insecurity, frequent relocation stress, competitive job markets, gender-biased discrimination, racial inequities, interpersonal factors, minority tax, and lack of mentoring (Brown, 2017; Campbell & Rodríguez, 2019; Chatterjee & Werner, 2021; Feldon et al, 2015; Isler et al, 2021; Jimenez et al, 2019; Kricorian et al, 2020; Lambert et al, 2020; Munton, 1990; Nauman et al, 2020; Advance NPA, 2011; Ong et al, 2018; Rodríguez et al, 2021; Taffe & Gilpin, 2021; Wang & Ackerman, 2020; Winkle-Wagner, 2009; Witteman et al, 2019). Simply acknowledging and raising awareness of these biases and disadvantages is insufficient in mitigating their adverse effects.…”