Female academics in the STEM fields, who already face a host of career obstacles, have found those challenges exacerbated by the pandemic, according to a report released on Tuesday by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The report, on women in academic sciences, engineering, and medicine, covers issues of productivity, colleges’ responses, and managing boundaries between work and home. (One respondent to a 2020 survey cited in the report put that quite clearly: “There are no boundaries,” she said.)

Here are two major takeaways from the report:

1. There are challenges to the approach of extending tenure clocks.

2. Men largely are making decisions on campus personnel issues that have wide implications for female academics.