This project examines the potential role of libraries and librarians in retention and satisfaction of female faculty and graduate students in organizational settings of disproportional representation. This project will use literature review and questionnaire facilitated interviews with librarians and administrators at institutions with experience(s) identified as promising/interesting during the literature review. Data analysis and findings from the lit review, questionnaire and interviews will help us begin to explore how librarians and library services might make a greater positive impact on the retention and satisfaction of women faculty and graduate students. **Project Deliverables:** **Report**: The project’s main deliverable will be a written report describing data accumulated through the literature review, interviews, and input from questionnaire instruments developed and administered in collaboration with the University’s Center for Social Research. **Data Analysis & Visualization:** Data will be extracted from the literature surveyed related to topics such as existence of library programs, library collections, and library roles related to gender parity and retention efforts and how those impact women during various stages of their graduate studies and later during their teaching and research careers. Data will also be collected through a questionnaire instrument that solicits input from librarians and administrators at institutions identified during the literature review. Information from the questionnaire facilitated interviews will be gathered from innovative and successful programs identified in the literature . Data from the literature search and questionnaire will be analyzed and the analysis will be followed up with a focused data visualization effort. Data Visualization will be pursued in collaboration with the Center for Research Computing so that the report’s results can be easily viewed and multi-purposed in the form of several select charts and graphs made understandable for use in presentations and papers for diverse audiences such as T&R faculty, staff, librarians, administrators, and potential funders interested in expanding and furthering research in this area. **Bibliography:** A bibliography will be developed as part of the literature review and which will be conducted in consultation with Hesburgh Libraries’ Subject librarians as well as the Graduate Outreach Services and Education Librarian. The literature review will explore potential connections between libraries and the retention of women and under-represented minority groups as faculty and graduate students in higher education organizations. **Funding:** This project is funded in-part by a Hesburgh Libraries Faculty Research Scholarship ($2,700).