Dr. Erin Winterrowd is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Regis University, a Jesuit university in Denver, Colorado. Dr. Winterrowd earned her BA in Psychology from Willamette University and a PhD in Counseling Psychology, with a Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies, from Colorado State University. Dr. Winterrowd’s research focuses on access and inequity in academic STEM, with studies grounded in local women’s experiences. She is particularly interested in utilizing her clinical training to bridge research and practice, hosting workshops and facilitating interventions designed to change institutional and cultural factors that are barriers to success.
One factor deterring junior scientists from pursuing careers in academia is the perception that women in STEM must compromise between family and career goals. But is this still the case? The attention to work-family navigation in the academy has only heightened since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic as gender and racial inequities have been laid bare. The current project aims to take advantage of this attention to working mothers and gendered racism in higher education by summarizing the recent literature on the impact of academic motherhood, particularly for women of color, on success as a scientist.
