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Hiring And Retention Results At The University Of Cincinnati, Steve Howe Phd, Stacie F. Holloway Phd, Rachel Kallen Phd

ADVANCE-Purdue Gender and STEM Research Symposium

Achieving higher levels of representation of women in the STEM sciences requires that science departments do a better job of recruiting, hiring, and retaining women scientists. In order to help the University of Cincinnati ADVANCE project team assess whether the under-representation of STEM women at UC is more a matter of not recruiting and hiring enough women or more matter of not retaining them, we conducted survival analyses. We were able to construct a data base of all UC employees who were hired from 1990 to 2012. For employees who left UC, we were able to calculate years of UC …