The
Gender Equity Project Gives Funding to 15 Hunter College Women Scientists
as Part of 2003-2004 Sponsorship Program
Date:
June 11, 2003
Contact: Deborah Sack (deborah.sack@hunter.cuny.edu)
Phone: (212) 772-4070
The Hunter
College Gender Equity Project has given 15 Hunter professors stipends
of up to $10,000 each as part of its 2003-2004 sponsorship program.
The program,
which began June 1, is the Gender Equity Project's leading initiative
and provides innovative, direct action to benefit women's professional
development and scientific work.
The Gender
Equity Project associates will use their $10,000 stipends for research
related activities such as release time, research assistance, teaching
assistance, and travel to conferences. If appropriate, GEP associates
also receive the benefits of working with a sponsor who is a senior
and successful member of the associate's field but not in her department.
The sponsor is on call for the scientist, providing an intellectual
sounding board, constructive comments on papers and presentations,
and professional advice.
First
year associates include Ines Miyares (Geography), Marnia Lazreg (Sociology),
Rupal Oza (Women's Studies/ Georgraphy), and Purvi Sevak (Economics).
Returning for a second year in the program are Fatma Cebenoyan (Economics),
Margaret Chin (Sociology), Darlene DeFour (Psychology), Jennifer Dwyer
(Political Science), Roseanne Flores (Psychology), Hongmian Gong (Geography),
Rebeccal Huselid (Psychology), Marianna Pavlovskaya (Geography), Randye
Rutberg (Geography), Haydee Salmun (Geography), and Pamela Stone (Sociology).
The Gender
Equity Project (GEP), co-directed by Professors Virginia Valian and
Vita Rabinowitz, is partially funded by an ADVANCE Institutional Transformation
Award from the National Science Foundation to Hunter College. The
award, which is about $3.75 million during a five-year period, is
intended to ensure fuller participation and advancement of women faculty
in science and engineering at U.S. colleges and universities.
Hunter was one of only nine campuses nationwide to receive this award
and the only one on the East Coast.
During
the five-year period, Hunter's scientists will design and implement
an ambitious program. They plan to develop and disseminate measures
for identifying hidden and subtle, as well as obvious, indicators
of gender equity and help to correct unintended institutional practices
that work against the advancement of women scientists. Through
workshops and training manuals, they intend to educate administrators
and others about inadvertent biases affecting their evaluations of
women, and about strategies to equalize women's and men's ability
to advance. They will also develop a sponsorship program linking
senior women scientists with junior and mid-level women scientists,
and reward the senior women through departmental initiatives.
Hunter's
project to ensure gender equity for its female scientists will be
based on a sophisticated, science-based analysis of how gender works
to put women at a disadvantage.
About Hunter
With a highly diverse student population of more than 20,000, Hunter is the largest college in the City University of New York (CUNY) system and the first choice among all CUNY applicants. Founded in 1870, the College offers more than 170 undergraduate and graduate programs. Hunter is noted for its professional schools in education, health sciences, nursing and social work, as well as its excellence in the liberal arts. Heralded as the "Crown Jewel of CUNY" by The Princeton Review, Hunter College has a distinguished reputation for nurturing talented minority scientists and meeting the challenge of providing high-quality science education in the 21st century. The College also oversees the Hunter College Campus Schools serving gifted and talented students, preschool through grade 12. For more
information about Hunter College, please visit our Web site at http://www.hunter.cuny.edu.
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