Mid-Act: A report from the workshop on mid career women in large physics collaborations

The challenges facing mid-career women are strikingly similar across different collaborations and subfields in particle physics, nuclear physics and astronomy. Many mid-level leadership positions come with large workloads with significant travel requirements, but final decision making is deferred to senior leaders, who are disproportionately male. In the US, women academics in mid career are promoted later than their male counterparts and are more likely to leave academia. Earlier this year, the first workshop on the specific concerns of mid-career women in large physics collaborations was held in Knoxville Tennessee. In this talk I will summarize the findings of this workshop and offer profiles of some of the attendees.