Equitable Solutions for Retaining a Robust STEM Workforce
Beyond Best Practices

Offers best practices and strategies to support and accommodate STEM work/life satisfaction

Donna J. Dean (Author), Janet B. Koster (Author)

9780128002155, Elsevier Science

Paperback, published 7 February 2014

224 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 1.5 cm, 0.38 kg

"Equitable Solutions for Retaining a Robust STEM Workforce offers strategies and proven recommendations to accommodate work/life satisfaction for those in the STEM fields. Using real-life case studies, this book discusses universal issues such as dual careers and strategic decision making, childcare/dependent care in professional contexts.." --Goodreads.com, February 24, 2014"Although work/life satisfaction is typically regarded as a women’s issue, ‘Equitable Solutions’…finds that it is an issue that crosses gender lines… the book was developed to provide both academic and private sector STEM work environments with the tools they need to retain their workforce, especially women." --Westcoast Women in Engineering Science, & Technology blog, February 14, 2014

Equitable Solutions for Retaining a Robust STEM Workforce offers strategies and proven recommendations to accommodate work/life satisfaction for those in the STEM fields. Using real-life case studies, this book discusses universal issues such as dual careers and strategic decision making, childcare/dependent care in professional contexts, promoting family-friendly policies, as well as mentoring and networking. Equitable Solutions for Retaining a Robust STEM Workforce provides data and tools to drive successful programs relaying proactive solutions that STEM employers, academic institutions, policy-makers, and individuals can utilize.

PART 1: Surveying the LandscapeI. Envisioning the STEM Workplace of the Future: The Need for Work/Life Programs and Family-Friendly Practices II. Work/Life Integration Challenges Are WorldwidePART 2: Award-Winning SolutionsIII. Addressing Work/Life IssuesIV. Dual Careers and Strategic Decision MakingV. Childcare and Dependent Care in Professional ContextsVI. Promoting Family-Friendly PoliciesPART 3: Advancing Comprehensive SolutionsVII. Mentoring and Networking StrategiesVIII. Addressing Implicit Bias and the WorkplaceIX. Government Policy Implications for Family-Related Issues

Subject Areas: Robotics [TJFM1], Life sciences: general issues [PSA]