Thank you to everyone who was able to come! At the event we had a huge poster (you can see it in the first picture) asking, What would make Hopkins better for women? Below are the answers people wrote on post-it notes, and a few pictures too.

PROBLEMS THAT NEED TO GET FIXED:

• Mechanism to screen for previous harassment complaints—to avoid “passing the trash”
• Reasons & suggestion for ways to combat institutional sexism/racism without filing an official complaint because the latter would be too dangerous
• Hold professors accountable for their sexist remarks
• YES!!!!!! (to the above)
• Equitable supervisory policies in practice
• 70% of named professorships were awarded to men in KSAS this year. What about the women?

WAYS TO IMPROVE JHU AS A PLACE TO WORK AND STUDY:

• Better networking between JHU women
• Monthly women’s coffee hour
• Concrete buy-in from the men of Hopkins
• Free after school programs
• Free family-friendly events
• Salary equity
• Equal opportunity for advancement
• Equal pay for equal work
• Be more non-binary
• Affordable child care
• More career development help for female graduate students & post-docs
• Leadership training
• Retention of senior/junior women faculty
• Hiring & retention of women scientists
• Universal maternity leave you don’t have to lobby for/ fight for each time
• Dedicate resources to research areas that focus on women, people of color, class, sexuality—ie, specific positions/departments; ie, why are Africana Studies and WGS programs, not departments?