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Progress Since First Annual Status of Women Report

The Chancellor's Committee on Women is pleased to report that three major initiatives in which the CCW was involved achieved significant success during the 1998-1999 academic year. The initiatives were the sexual harassment policy, the campus diversity plan, and feminine hygiene issues.
  • Sexual Harassment policy. The sexual harassment policy for the Boulder campus was significantly revised during the academic year. The CCW was actively involved in commenting on the revised policy and seeking additional modifications. Although not all of our concerns were incorporated in the final document, the CCW was able to advocate on behalf of women on campus and make changes to the policy that will have long-lasting effects.
  • Campus diversity policy. The CCW worked to ensure that women's issues were addressed during the revising of the diversity policy. We had significant input into the discussion of initiatives and measurements incorporated in the policy. As shown later in this report, many of the recommendations proposed by the CCW for this Status of Women Report are similar to key strategies proposed for the Boulder Campus’s Diversity Plan.
  • Feminine hygiene issues. The CCW, in keeping with its belief that the campus should be accommodating to all individuals, spearheaded efforts to ensure working vending machines (or alternatively, supply of products) and installation of disposal receptacles in women’s restrooms around the entire campus. Many of these concerns are being addressed during the summer of 1999 with installation of receptacles and the initiation of a new product policy. CCW believes that additional steps may be necessary in terms of the number of women's restrooms where products are stocked but commends the University on finally making progress in this area.

Actions that others on campus have undertaken during this period include:

  • Faculty mentoring programs targeting junior women faculty.
  • Selected funding for on campus and off-campus leadership programs for women faculty and staff.
  • Commitment to addressing salary equity for women faculty through the Salary Equity Appeals Committee and funding by deans.
  • Improved security measures to provide increased protection for women.