Charting Your Path to Full: A Guide for Women Associate Professors

Institutions, faculty, and students benefit when women academics advance in their careers, yet research shows that women academics are more likely to stall at the associate professor stage of their careers than men.

Charting Your Path to Full is a data- and literature-informed resource aimed at helping women in the professoriate excel in their careers, regardless of discipline and institution type. Vicki L. Baker draws on human resources, organizational studies, and positive organizational psychology to help women first focus on their joy as the primary driver of career and personal pursuits, and provides action steps, “To Do” lists, and additional tools and resources to lay out a clear step-by-step approach to help women academics reach their goals. Baker’s wealth of consulting and research insights provides a compelling and accessible approach to supporting women as they re-envision their careers.

Vicki L. Baker is a professor of economics and management at Albion College in Albion, Michigan, and an instructor in business administration at the Pennsylvania State University’s World Campus. She is lead author of Developing Faculty in Liberal Arts Colleges: Aligning Individual Needs and Organizational Goals (Rutgers University Press) and lead editor for Success After Tenure: Supporting Mid-Career Faculty. She is the cofounder of Lead Mentor Develop, LLC (www.leadmentordevelop.com).