We will review the literature findings demonstrating the correlation between increased diversity and the increased success of business and academic units. This suggests that market forces, unrestricted by biases and barriers, should have led us to parity in the demographics of the faculty and that of our overall population. Unfortunately, there remains a disproportionate (low) representation of women among tenure-track faculty in chemistry departments in PhD granting institutions. Specifically, though female faculty representation has increased from 10% to 19% during the last 15 years, these numbers fall far short of availability. What procedures, policies and practices need to be introduced in order to recognize that  gender diversity is necessary for success? We will present an overview of the findings and recommendations by the Open Chemistry Collaborative in Diversity Equity (OXIDE) generated in collaborations with social scientists and chairs from the top chemistry research programs collectively at our National Diversity Equity Workshops Our recommendations represent a flexible roadmap that, if adopted, has the capacity to create a climate in which gender diversity is recognized as a necessary factor in achieving and ranking academic excellence.

Expanding the academic excellence model through gender diversity

253rd National Meeting (2017)

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