To address those problems and to better prepare students to lead fuller, more balanced lives, the key is to engage all women in teaching, learning, and research engagement is critical to improving our learning environments. Improve teaching, learning, and research through networking, alliances, mentoring, and curriculum development. Improve it also through classroom climates, identifying priorities of women students, and supporting women s research and programs. Today, over 75 percent of women between the ages of 24 and 54 in the United States work, and most working mothers have children under age 6. Working women spend the majority of their waking hours in the workplace, and work consumes a significant portion of their lives.
Work can give meaning to our lives, or it can detract significantly from the quality of our lives.
Our institutions will suffer unless we intentionally address the needs of today s students and today s employees and make appropriate changes. Provide affordable, culturally sensitive, child-care. Develop housing options for students with families and for single parents. Recommendations for how to work to advance women and achieve pay equity for women faculty and staff Identify, provide and promote leadership opportunities for women at all levels of the institution. Encourage and reward mentoring Address and develop strategies for combating elitism and divisiveness among faculty and staff.