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News
We hope
you have a productive and fun summer. See you in the Fall. Let us know if there
is any way that the Faculty Women's Network can help.
Mission
The mission of the Faculty
Women's Network is to promote institutional equity for women faculty
at Duke, to foster an environment in which faculty women can flourish
here, and to support one another in our efforts toward these goals.
Our commitment extends to recruitment, retention, and promotion of women
faculty (especially, at the current time, promotion from associate to
full professor); salary equity for women faculty; advancement of women
faculty to administrative positions; institutional responsiveness to
the demands of faculty members' family life, the burden of which still
falls unevenly on women; a supportive and enabling workplace climate
(everywhere, but notably in the sciences) for women faculty, graduate
students, and post-doctoral fellows; and sustained mentoring for these
women.
History
During the better part of
the 1980s and the early 1990s, the Faculty Women's Network worked for,
and won, many advances-among them, significant gains in recruitment
and retention of women faculty; a resulting critical mass, and a community,
of faculty women; the sharp reduction of sexual harassment at Duke and
the institution of a sexual harassment code; paid maternity leave for
women faculty (recently superceded by a new more progressive parenting
leave policy that is no longer tied to medical disability leave and
now includes the option of leave for adoptive parents and for the domestic
partners of birth mothers); and, a broader awareness, institution-wide,
of faculty women's presence and the issues we confront. Perhaps because
of these very successes, perhaps exhibiting a natural cycle of exhaustion
and rejuvenation in political activism, the Faculty Women's Network
entered a decade-long hiatus. Its work, however, was not finished; indeed,
some of the problems that the Network addressed then have now resurfaced.
Galvanized by the 2003 report of President Nan Keohane's Women's Initiative,
now officially supported by the Office of the Provost, and energized
by a new generation of women, the Faculty Women's Network has reinvented
itself.
Projects and
Activities
HELP line
If you are encountering issues
that you would like to discuss in a confidential manner with the FWN,
send email with the subject line: "FWN Help" to
Faculty
Recruiting
At departments' and candidates'
discretion, small groups of women faculty members will meet with female
candidates for faculty positions during their on-campus interviews.
These meetings will give the candidates a chance to make the acquaintance
of potential women colleagues, and explore their perspectives on life
at Duke. Many of Duke's current women faculty fondly recall their meetings,
during their own job interviews, with women from the Faculty Women's
Network. These former candidates tell how significant this opportunity
was in their decisions to come to Duke. Beginning with searches now
in progress, we have revived this service to departments and candidates.
Department Search Chairs
should contact the FWN convener (email below) to arrange a meeting.
Membership
Consider becoming
a member of the FWN. We are a community of over 120 women faculty across
campus. We are always happy to grow. Just send an email to the convener
(email address below) with "FWN" in the subject line in order to join
or you can join at any of our events (described above).
Contact
Information
Co-Conveners:
Nan Marie
Jokerst
Electrical and Computer Engineering, 660-5503
Lynn Smith-Lovin
Sociology, 660-5786
This
is a collection of web links related to women faculty. Please send items
of interest to the convener.
This
link contains many resources for members of the Faculty Women's Network.
Use the login and password previously provided to access this webpage.
If you have forgotten these, contact the convener.
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