Formal Call:
Badass Ladies of Communication: The Challenges and The Opportunities for Female Scholars’ Success in the Field
Badass Ladies of Communication: The Challenges and The Opportunities for Female Scholars’ Success in the Field
The deadline for this call has passed.
Description: This post-conference builds on two years of informal social gatherings convened at ICA to build fellowship and exchange professionalism tactics among those who gender-identify as women and have completed their PhD. In the wake of #metoo, the unique needs of female scholars in their promotion and career success merit careful consideration. The post-conference will provide panels with skill-building in public engagement (media training and social media strategy), academic promotion, and field assessments of senior female scholars.
Rationale: Issues of sexism and gender bias in the professoriate are well-known, though remain largely unmitigated as a result of structural factors in academia and in society at large. Female professors across the humanities, social sciences, and professional schools face an upward challenge when it comes to being tenured and promoted, with inequalities emerging in publishing and citation patterns, productivity, speaking engagements, and student-teacher evaluations, among other factors (Teele and Thelen, 2017). In keeping with the conference theme, the half-day post conference seeks to engage with communication beyond boundaries in order to challenge what scholars have called “the stubborn persistence of patriarchy in communication scholarship” (Mayer, Press, and Verhoven, 2017).
The post-conference has two goals: 1) to provide mentorship and advice for female scholars to reach career goals and 2) to help female scholars within communication as a whole gain greater visibility inside and outside the field. The post-conference features three breakout sessions and a post-conference reception. The first will provide media training for public engagement, including addressing specific challenges female scholars may face in interviewing, pitching op-eds, and translating research for popular audiences, as well as developing one’s social media presence. The second will feature top-level female international scholars from different academic systems to advise more junior scholars about academic promotion. The third session will ask another set of senior female scholars working across disciplines and academic systems to reflect on roads not taken and paths for future success for females interested in leadership positions.
We also plan to lay the groundwork for or creating a communication-specific version of #womenalsoknowstuff, an effort by female political science scholars to draw attention to their work and compensate for gender-based challenges in citation patterns and public recognition of their expertise. This is specifically targeted at female-identified scholars who have already finished their PhD, including post-docs, lecturers, assistant, associate, and full professors, or the scholarly equivalent. To be considered for inclusion, participants will be asked to submit a 100-word rationale for their attendance and can apply here (due Jan. 15).
References
Mayer, V., Press. P, and Verhoven, V. (2017). How Do We Intervene in the Stubborn Persistence of Patriarchy in Communication Scholarship? Paper presented at the International Communication Association Annual Conference, San Diego, CA.
Teele, D. L., & Thelen, K. (2017). Gender in the Journals: Publication Patterns in Political Science. PS: Political Science & Politics, 50(2), 433-447.
Description: This post-conference builds on two years of informal social gatherings convened at ICA to build fellowship and exchange professionalism tactics among those who gender-identify as women and have completed their PhD. In the wake of #metoo, the unique needs of female scholars in their promotion and career success merit careful consideration. The post-conference will provide panels with skill-building in public engagement (media training and social media strategy), academic promotion, and field assessments of senior female scholars.
Rationale: Issues of sexism and gender bias in the professoriate are well-known, though remain largely unmitigated as a result of structural factors in academia and in society at large. Female professors across the humanities, social sciences, and professional schools face an upward challenge when it comes to being tenured and promoted, with inequalities emerging in publishing and citation patterns, productivity, speaking engagements, and student-teacher evaluations, among other factors (Teele and Thelen, 2017). In keeping with the conference theme, the half-day post conference seeks to engage with communication beyond boundaries in order to challenge what scholars have called “the stubborn persistence of patriarchy in communication scholarship” (Mayer, Press, and Verhoven, 2017).
The post-conference has two goals: 1) to provide mentorship and advice for female scholars to reach career goals and 2) to help female scholars within communication as a whole gain greater visibility inside and outside the field. The post-conference features three breakout sessions and a post-conference reception. The first will provide media training for public engagement, including addressing specific challenges female scholars may face in interviewing, pitching op-eds, and translating research for popular audiences, as well as developing one’s social media presence. The second will feature top-level female international scholars from different academic systems to advise more junior scholars about academic promotion. The third session will ask another set of senior female scholars working across disciplines and academic systems to reflect on roads not taken and paths for future success for females interested in leadership positions.
We also plan to lay the groundwork for or creating a communication-specific version of #womenalsoknowstuff, an effort by female political science scholars to draw attention to their work and compensate for gender-based challenges in citation patterns and public recognition of their expertise. This is specifically targeted at female-identified scholars who have already finished their PhD, including post-docs, lecturers, assistant, associate, and full professors, or the scholarly equivalent. To be considered for inclusion, participants will be asked to submit a 100-word rationale for their attendance and can apply here (due Jan. 15).
References
Mayer, V., Press. P, and Verhoven, V. (2017). How Do We Intervene in the Stubborn Persistence of Patriarchy in Communication Scholarship? Paper presented at the International Communication Association Annual Conference, San Diego, CA.
Teele, D. L., & Thelen, K. (2017). Gender in the Journals: Publication Patterns in Political Science. PS: Political Science & Politics, 50(2), 433-447.