Women in Medicine and Science

Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the productivity of academics who mother, Kasymova, S., Place, J.M.S., Billings, D.L. and Aldape, J.D. (2021), in Gender, Work & Organization, Wiley Online Library, https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12699

Academic Caregivers on Organizational and Community Resilience in Academia (F**k Individual Resilience), by Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn, Emily T Cripe, Brooke Foucault Welles, Shannon C McGregor, Katy E Pearce, Nikki Usher, Jessica Vitak, Communication, Culture and Critique, 2021; tcab027, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcab027

The Disproportionate Impact of the Pandemic on Women and Caregivers in Academia, by Makala Skinner, Nicole Betancourt, and Christine Wolff-Eisenberg. Ithaka S+R. Last Modified 31 March 2021. https://doi.org/10.18665/sr.315147.

Preventing a Secondary Epidemic of Lost Early Career Scientists: Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic on Women with Children Cardel MI, Dean N, Montoya-Williams D. [published online ahead of print, 2020 Jul 15]. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2020;10.1513/AnnalsATS.202006-589IP. doi:10.1513/AnnalsATS.202006-589IP

Unequal effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on scientists COVID-19 has not affected all scientists equally. A survey of principal investigators indicates that female scientists, those in the ‘bench sciences’ and, especially, scientists with young children experienced a substantial decline in time devoted to research. This could have important short- and longer-term effects on their careers, which institution leaders and funders need to address carefully. Myers, K.R., Tham, W.Y., Yin, Y. et al. Nat Hum Behav (2020)

Letters: Impact of COVID-19 on academic mothers published in Science,15 May 2020

The coronavirus pandemic is creating a ‘double double shift’ for women. Employers must help, by Sheryl Sandberg and Rachel Thomas, Fortune, May 7, 2020

Nearly Half of Men Say They Do Most of the Home Schooling. 3 Percent of Women Agree: A survey suggests that pandemic-era domestic work isn’t being divided more equitably than before the lockdown by Claire Cain Miller, The New York Times, May 8, 2020

Letters: Impact of COVID-19 on academic mothers published in Science,15 May 2020

In the COVID-19 economy, you can have a kid or a job. You can't have both by Deb Perelman, The New York Times,July 2, 2020

Will COVID-19 push women out of the labor force? Barbara Risman, Psychology Today, July 2, 2020

This Isn’t Sustainable for Working Parents The pandemic has already taken a toll on the careers of those with young children—particularly mothers, by Joe Pinsker, Atlantic Monthly, July 9, 2020

Yes, balancing work and parenting is impossible. Here's the data by Suzanne M. Edwards and Larry Snyder, The Washington Post,July 10, 2020

‘They Go to Mommy First’ How the pandemic is disproportionately disrupting mothers’ careers, by Jessica Grose, The New York Times,July 15, 2020

Covid-19 Is Intensifying The Disparities Between Men And Women In Science, by Nicole Fisher, Forbes, August 21, 2020

Supporting women in academia during and after a global pandemic, Reese et al, Science Advances  24 Feb 2021, Vol. 7, no. 9, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abg9310

The Gendered Impacts of COVID-19: Lessons and Reflections, editorial by Irma Mooi-Reci, Barbara J. Risman, Gender & Society, March 5, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432211001305

Stuck-At-Home Moms: The Pandemic's Devastating Toll On Women by Pallavi Gogoi, National Public Radio (NPR), October 28, 2020

Many Female Academics Face Big Challenges — and Covid-19 Raises the Stakes, Report Says, by Lindsay Ellis, The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 9, 2021

Scientist Mothers Face Extra Challenges in the Face of COVID-19

Preventing a Secondary Epidemic of Lost Early Career Scientists. Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic on Women with Children

Reflections on motherhood and the impact of COVID 19 pandemic on women’s scientific careers

COVID Has Laid Bare the Inequities That Face Mothers in STEM

Supporting faculty during & after COVID-19 Don’t let go of equity, a report by Leslie D. Gonzalez and Kimberly A. Griffin, ASPIRE Alliance, 2020.

Tenure and promotion after the pandemic Science, 05 Jun 2020

How Support of Early Career Researchers Can Reset Science in the Post-COVID19 World Erin M. Gibson, et al. Cell, 25 June 2020

STEM Equity and Inclusion (Un)Interrupted? The pandemic will negatively impact the careers of women in STEM, particularly those of color, and failure to respond could jeopardize years of progress toward faculty equity, argue Stephanie A. Goodwin and Beth Mitchneck, in InsideHigherEd, May 15, 2020

ARC Network Town Hall: Ensuring Equity in Institutional COVID-19 Responses a recording of a webinar concerning the need to integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion into higher education administrators’ decision-making, organized by the ARC Network, sponsored by the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) through an ADVANCE grant from the National Science Foundation. June 4, 2020

Opinion: In the wake of COVID-19, academia needs new solutions to ensure gender equity Jessica L. Malisch et al, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Jul 2020, 117 (27) 15378-15381; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2010636117

Gender and the Pandemic, a collection of essays by affiliates of Stanford's Clayman Institute on Gender Research

Coronovirus Coverage and the Silencing of Female Expertise by Teresa Carr, Undark, 06.22.2020, and also here in The Wire, July 9, 2020

COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists Women scientists and those with young children are paying a steep career price in the pandemic, according to new research, an article by Rebecca Layne, Harvard Business Review, August 10, 2020

Childcare for Faculty: The Babar in the Room, a blog post by Kiernan Mathews, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Collaborative on Careers in Higher Education, August 10, 2020

'Babar in the Room' Faculty parents are once again being asked to perform a miracle: Get their students and their own kids through the semester in one piece. Does it have to be this way? by Colleen Flaherty, InsideHigherEd, August 11, 2020

Factoring in the Pandemic Experience to Protect Gender Equity, Memorializing the Summer of 2020, a document distributed by the Northwestern [University] Organization of Faculty Women 

Organization of Women Faculty COVID Response Faculty Survey, distributed July 20-August 7, 2020 by the Northwestern [University] Organization of Faculty Women

Call for Immediate Action, by the Northwestern [University] Organization of Faculty Women, September 2020

Keeping COVID-19 From Sidelining Equity Without engaged interventions, higher education will most likely become less diverse and inclusive, given the pressure the pandemic is placing on women and faculty of color, by Joya Misra, Dessie Clark and Ethel L. Mickey, Inside HigherEd, February 10, 2021

Impact of COVID-19 on the Careers of Women in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. 2021. https://doi.org/10.17226/26061

The Quiet Crisis of Parents on the Tenure Track by Maggie Doherty, The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 20, 2021

Pay Gaps in Medicine and the Impact of COVID-19 on Doctors’ Careers

Don’t Let the Pandemic Set Back Gender Equality

Opinion: In the wake of COVID-19, academia needs new solutions to ensure gender equity

• Supplement to Malisch et al. Opinion: Old Problem and New Solutions to ensuring gender equity in academia in the wake of COVID-19(PDF)

Gender Equity Considerations for Tenure and Promotion during COVID‐19

Gender differences in COVID-19 attitudes and behavior: Panel evidence from eight countries

Challenges for the female academic during the COVID-19 pandemic The Lancet, June 18, 2020

Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Manuscript Submissions by Women Kibbe MR. JAMA Surg. Published online August 04, 2020. doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2020.3917

Meta-Research: COVID-19 medical papers have fewer women first authors than expected. Andersen JP, Nielsen MW, Simone NL, Lewiss RE, Jagsi R.  Elife. 2020;9:e58807. Published 2020 Jun 15. doi:10.7554/eLife.58807

No Room of One's Own: Early journal submission data suggest COVID-19 is tanking women's research productivity by Colleen Flaherty, InsideHigherEd, April 21, 2020

Women's research plummets during lockdown - but articles from men increase Many female academics say juggling their career with coronavirus childcare is overwhelming, writes Anna Fazackerley in The Guardian, May 12, 2020

Women in science are battling both Covid-19 and the patriarchy The pandemic has worsened longstanding sexist and racist inequalities in science pushing many of us to say ‘I’m done’, write 35 female scientists, in The Times Higher Education, May 15, 2020

Opinion: The Isolated Scientist Among the disruptions and pain caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers are dealing with a sudden halt in in-person interactions, by Steven Wiley, TheScientist, May 19, 2020

Women in Science May Suffer Lasting Career Damage from COVID-19 They bear a greater proportion of childcare and household responsibilities, making it much harder for them to publish their work and get ahead, by Jillian Kramer, Scientific American, August 12, 2020

Documenting Pandemic Impacts: Best Practices UMass ADVANCE COVID-19 Tool, August 17, 2020

Something's Got to Give Women's journal submission rates fell as their caring responsibilities jumped due to COVID-19. Without meaningful interventions, the trend is likely to continue, by Colleen Flaherty, Inside HigherEd, August 20, 2020

Pandemic Imperils Promotion for Women in Academia Even as faculty members are given more time to meet a deadline for tenure, many say they are getting less work done because of child care needs, by Noam Schieber, The New York Times, September 29, 2020 (plus related links below to documents from Northwestern University cited in the article)

European Women in Mathematics Open Letter on the COVID-19 Pandemic (EWM is an international association of women working in the field of mathematics in Europe), published online September 22, 2020

Women Are Falling Behind Large-scale study backs up other research showing relative declines in women's research productivity during COVID-19, by Colleen Flaherty, Inside HigherEd,October 20, 2020

Covid-19 Has Robbed Faculty Parents of Time for Research. Especially Mothers. Women with children have lost, on average, about an hour of research time per day on top of what childless scholars have lost, by Emma Pettit, The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 25, 2021

What Explains Differences in Finance Research Productivity During the Pandemic? Barber et al,National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Working paper 28493, DOI 10.3386/w28493, February 2021

Emerging Evidence Indicates COVID-19 Pandemic Has Negatively Impacted Women in Academic STEMM Fields, Endangering Progress Made in Recent Years, The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine news release, March 9, 2021

Female professors have less time to research in the pandemic. It could force them out of academia, experts say, by Caroline Kitchener, The Lily, April 5, 2021

Could the Pandemic Prompt an ‘Epidemic of Loss’ of Women in the Sciences? by Apoorva Mandavilli, The New York Times, April 13, 2021

The COVID pandemic has harmed researcher productivity – and mental health

The career cost of COVID-19 to female researchers, and how science should respond

Early-career scientists at critical career junctures brace for impact of COVID-19

The decline of women's research production during the coronavirus pandemic

Are women publishing less during the pandemic? Here’s what the data say

Women are getting less research done than men during this coronavirus pandemic

Early journal submission data suggest COVID-19 is tanking women's research productivity

Community Call Creative Strategies to Address the Gendered Impact of COVID-19

Psychiatric genomics research during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A survey of Psychiatric Genomics Consortium researchers (nih.gov)

Ten simple rules for women principal investigators during a pandemic

The coronavirus pandemic is creating a ‘double double shift’ for women. Employers must help, by Sheryl Sandberg and Rachel Thomas, Fortune, May 7, 2020

"New PI COVID19 memo" suggestions from "junior faculty at a university" to help catalyze the discussion of potential solutions to the challenges currently faced and foreseen for early career faculty members to the changed circumstances of their work resulting from the pandemic

Measures to Support Faculty During COVID-19 The pandemic has amplified pre-existing inequities among faculty members, creating distinct challenges for differently situated ones, write Ethel L. Mickey, Dessie Clark and Joya Misra, Inside HigherEd, September 4, 2020

Burning Out Professors say faculty burnout is always a real threat, but especially now, and that institutions should act before it’s too late, by Colleen Flaherty, Inside HigherEd, September 14, 2020
 

The Virus Moved Female Faculty to the Brink. Will Universities Help? The pandemic is a new setback for women in academia who already faced obstacles on the path to advancing their research and careers, by Jillian Kramer, The New York Times, October 6, 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/science/covid-universities-women.html

Where Caregiving and Gender Intersect It's not just about gender or caregiving, it's both: new analyses suggest colleges need COVID-19 faculty relief policies that target female caregivers in particular, by Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higher Ed,March 31, 2021

The Pandemic Hit Female Academics Hardest - What are colleges going to do about it?

• Coronavirus is harming the mental health of tens of millions of people in U.S., new poll finds by Joel Achenbach, The Washington Post, April 2, 2020
• The Life of a Black Academic: Tired and Terrorized What has not been acknowledged is the world of terror enveloping many black academics that has changed feeling tired to absolute exhaustion, by Henrika McCoy, InsideHigherEd,June 12, 2020
• Survey reveals COVID-19’s significant stress on faculty Stanford Report, February 26, 2021
• Many Female Academics Face Big Challenges — and Covid-19 Raises the Stakes, Report Says, by Lindsay Ellis, The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 9, 2021
• ‘We are at the breaking point’: Survey shows faculty, especially women, facing COVID-related stress by Anna Milstein, The Stanford Daily, March 17, 2021