She is the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Vocational Behavior and distinguished professor and chair of the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
[1] Her award citation emphasized her contributions to "the development and implementation of the Multicultural Guidelines, her commitment to social justice and equality, and her pioneering work in establishing benchmarks for trainee competency.
[3] In this role, she led a three-year continual study aimed at "identifying supports and barriers that steer girls toward or away from science and math during their education.
Her research team studied why only 11 percent of practising engineers are female and found issues such as "lack of job satisfaction, lack of reliable female role models, inflexible work schedules, workplace discrimination, white mid-western men syndrome, and glass ceiling issues.
[9] Following this, Fouad was appointed editor in chief of the Journal of Vocational Behavior for a six-year term[10] and granted an inaugural endowed chair in educational psychology.