We've Come a Long Way, Maybe: Academic Climate Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in Anthropology

Wasson, Christina; Brondo, Keri Vacanti; LeMaster, Barbara; Turner, Trudy R.; Cudhea, Maia; Moran, Kelly R.; Adams, Inez; McCoy, Andrea J.; Ko, Megan; Matsumoto, Tomoko; Raviele, Maria

doi:10.1037/e598242011-001

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“…Yet, the relationship between family-career balance and psychosocial stress is not always negative, as remarked upon in other climate surveys of anthropology [23]. Although the financial rewards of becoming an anthropologist seem to diminish with each additional obstacle, anthropology as a career choice can also be exciting and rewarding in ways not measured by our survey.…”

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confidence: 51%

“…In anthropology, women are more likely to enroll in undergraduate and graduate courses and are represented in higher numbers among young professionals [23]. This is consistent with other social science fields, but in opposition to fields considered more “mathematically intensive” [34].…”

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confidence: 64%

“…We compared degree rates and employment of women and men to assess whether there were disparities consistent with the professional attrition of women in other studies [3–6,23,24]. Fig 1 illustrates this comparison, indicating significantly ( p < .01) higher percentages of women among MA and PhD students and PhD-holding adjuncts and lecturers but higher percentages of men among PhD-holding tenure-track and tenured professors (42%).…”

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confidence: 78%

“…These reductions negatively influence opportunities for collaboration and recognition for research [35,38]. As others [12,23] indicate, these factors are directly responsible for women leaving academia at a substantially higher rate than white men. A 35-year-old female PhD student respondent to our study confirmed this, indicating,…”

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confidence: 99%

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Family and the field: Expectations of a field-based research career affect researcher family planning decisions

2018

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Field-based data collection provides an extraordinary opportunity for comparative research. However, the demands of pursuing research away from home creates an expectation of unburdened individuals who have the temporal, financial, and social resources to conduct this work. Here we examine whether this myth of the socially unencumbered scholar contributes to the loss of professionals and trainees. To investigate this, we conducted an internet-based survey of professional and graduate student anthropologists (n = 1025) focused on the challenges and barriers associated with developing and maintaining a fieldwork-oriented career path and an active family life. This study sought to determine how (1) family socioeconomic status impacts becoming an anthropologist, (2) expectations of field-based research influence family planning, and (3) fieldwork experiences influence perceptions of family-career balance and stress. We found that most anthropologists and anthropology students come from educated households and that white men were significantly more likely to become tenured professionals than other demographic groups. The gender disparity is striking because a larger number of women are trained in anthropology and were more likely than men to report delaying parenthood to pursue their career. Furthermore, regardless of socioeconomic background, anthropologists reported significant lack of family-career balance and high stress associated with the profession. For professionals, lack of balance was most associated with gender, age, SES, tenure, and impacts of parenting on their career, while for students it was ethnicity, relative degree speed, graduate funding, employment status, total research conducted, career impact on family planning, and concern with tenure (p < .05). Anthropology bridges the sciences and humanities, making it the ideal discipline to initiate discussions on the embedded structural components of field-based careers generalizable across specialties.

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“…Closer to home, the Committee on the Status of Women in Anthropology's Academic Climate Report drew similar conclusions (Wasson et al 2008). Compilers were confounded: "Since we tend to think of anthropology as a discipline populated by fairly progressive people, we were surprised at the extent of the gender inequities that we uncovered" (p. 2).…”

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Identity and Difference: Complicating Gender in Archaeology

Geller

2009

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From its inception, the archaeology of gender was entwined with feminism. Engagement has engendered reconstructions of complex, diverse peoples and practices that are more equitable, relevant, and sound. Yet, for many archaeologists, the connection with feminist perspectives has frayed in recent years. Their studies of gender articulate dated ideas about women and epistemological frames that highlight duality and universality. Examinations of labor divisions typify shortcomings. To advance gender's study and archaeology, practitioners need to consider several concerns about identity and difference emerging from thirdwave feminism. Gender is envisioned as intersection. Bioarchaeology, especially, will benefit from feminist approaches that reflect critically and regard gender in nonnormative and multiscalar terms. To this end, resistance to feminism must fade. Opposition stems from its imagined relationship with postmodernism, but conflation misconstrues feminism's sociopolitical commitment to emancipatory change. For their part, archaeologists can utilize feminist perspectives to diversify the field, explore difference, and tackle archaeological issues with sociopolitical resonance. 65 Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 2009.38:65-81. downloaded from www.annualreviews.org by University of Alabama -Birmingham on 12/29/12. For personal use only.

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We've Come a Long Way, Maybe: Academic Climate Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in Anthropology

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Family and the field: Expectations of a field-based research career affect researcher family planning decisions

Family and the field: Expectations of a field-based research career affect researcher family planning decisions

Identity and Difference: Complicating Gender in Archaeology

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