Description
Women in Behavior Science is a unique text that showcases the perspectives, stories, and lessons of notable female behavior scientists at all stages of their careers, with relevance for the field’s many women pursuing careers in academia today.
With the insights of esteemed female behavior scientists from diverse backgrounds, the book brings together their challenges and successes to include their own distinct perspectives on their professional and personal development. The book includes three sections that span the different phases of the academic lifespan from graduate school to retirement and post-retirement. Each section covers a wide range of topics such as expanding one’s work in new and diverse areas; deciding when and how to make transitions; making something out of nothing or very little; navigating relationships with family, children, and life partners both inside and outside of academy; values-based living; how to thrive in competitive environments; and building values-consistent repertoires in settings that may be gender-marginalizing. Presenting a behind-the-scenes view of academia, the authors also provide open and vulnerable narratives about their psychological and socio-cultural experiences, their stories of marginalization, their difficulties with mental and physical health challenges, grief and loss, and caring for others with chronic health conditions.
Reframing the cultural-level recognition of female behavior scientists today, this book is essential reading for graduate and postgraduate students of Behavioral Science, especially for those focusing on diversity and cultural issues. It is also a must-read for professionals interested in understanding the experiences of diverse groups in this field.
Table of Contents
Part 1: Beginning
1. Planting Seeds: Learning, Growing, and Thriving in Graduate School
Ally Salzer, Jovonnie Esquierdo Leal & Kathryn Roose
2. The Job Search
Corina Jimenez-Gomez & Sarah Richling
3. The First Years of the Job: What My CV Doesn’t Tell You
Shrinidhi Subramaniam
4. Building Values-Consistent Repertoires of Gender Marginalized Academics
Emily K. Sandoz, Janani Vaidya, Brooke M. Smith, Jade Campbell & Karen Kate Kellum
5. Mentoring Relationships: Finding a Mentor, Being Mentored, and Mentoring Others.
Erin Rasmussen, Sierra Baca-Zeff, and Morgan Musquez
6: Mentoring, Mothering, Sistering, and Friending: Building a Caring Mentoring Community
Stephanie Peterson, Cynthia Anderson & Jennifer Wolgemuth
Part 2: Striving and Surviving
7. Scholarship Expectations and Practices across the Academic Landscape
Kelly Banna, Amy L. Odum & Erin B. Rasmussen
8. Promotions
Rocio Rosales
9. Understanding the Importance of Intersectionality in Advancing Community-Engaged Scholarship and Increasing Diversity
Jomella Watson-Thompson & Eric C. Thompson
10. Family Career Balance: Professional and Personal Repertoires Shaped with Love, Enthusiasm, and Strong Models
Martha Hubner and Luiza Hubner
11: Spiritual Activsim
Paula Danquah-Brobby
12. The Experiences of a Female Scientist in the Global Network.
Louise McHugh & Lynn Farrell
13. Transitions
Ariana D’Arms, Amoy Kito Hugh-Pennie, & Denise Ross
14. Chapter Title: Sickness, Health, and Love: Managing Life and Work Demands
Julie Slowiak
Chapter 15. Leisure
Wendy Donlin Washington & Casey Irwin Helvey
Part 3: Thriving
16. Making Something Out Of Nothing or Very Little: A Tale of How to Plant Seeds of Behavior Analysis, How to Cultivate Them, and Enjoy Watching Them Grow and Multiply.
Zuilma Gabriela Sigurðardóttir
17. Expanding
Traci M. Cihon
18. Staying Motivated: An Intermezzo
Ruth Anne Rehfeldt
19. A Cross-Continental Journey through Academia; Life Partners, Tensions, and the People Who Influenced My Path
Lise Roll-Pettersson
20. A Northeast Journey Toward Values-Based Living
Adel Najdowski
21. Promoting Prosociality and Compassion in Competitive Environments
Karola Dillenburger
22. Reflections on Loss and Grief
Traci M. Cihon
23. Capitalizing on Applied Behavior Analysis Within Our Retirement Years
Beth Sulzer-Azaroff
