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In 2012, two additional questions not in the initial survey sought also to probe differences between junior and senior women. The 2012 written responses from all four cohorts of POWRE awardees overwhelmingly affirm that they believe junior and senior women face different issues from those faced by the senior women colleagues. Most discussed a number of changes in institutional policies and practices that they believe would be most useful for facilitating careers and laboratory climates for junior women. Although they acknowledged that issues differed for junior and senior women, overall, relatively few respondents had ideas about how to improve the situation for senior STEM academic women compared to their junior colleagues.
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Rosser, S.V. (2017). Senior Compared to Junior Women Academic Scientists: Similar or Different Needs?. In: Academic Women in STEM Faculty. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48793-9_4
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