UW–Madison’s Matthew Hora contributed to a report from the National Academies examining the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) fields.
Hora is the director of the Center for Research on College to Workforce Transitions (CCWT), which is housed within the School of Education’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research.
The report, titled “Impact of COVID-19 on the Careers of Women in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,” finds that the pandemic “has negatively affected the well-being of women in academic STEMM fields in a range of areas, including productivity, work-life boundary control, networking and community building, and mental well-being,” according to a news release.
Hora contributed to a chapter in the report, “Academic Productivity and Institutional Responses,” focused on the disproportionately negative impacts of the pandemic on women in the academic workforce, such as tenure-track faculty, lecturers, postdoctoral scholars, and researchers.
Learn more about the report’s conclusions and download it, here.