Toilet Stops in the Field
Many institutions do not have guidelines surrounding toilet stops on field trips, and the topic is rarely discussed. This document is intended to educate staff and students about toilet stops and menstruation in the field. This document also contains a …
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Women in science blog
Hi, I have started a blog on issues relevant for women in science and women (or man!) in general. I will be writing about diversity in the workplace (with particular attention to science when my experience is), work-and-life balance, gender …
Read MoreWomen, Science, and Adademia: Graduate Education and Careers
In the study of gender and society, science is a strategic analytic research site—because of the hierarchical nature of gendered relations, generally, and the hierarchy of science, particularly. Academic science, especially, is crucial to, and revealing of, status in science …
Read MoreThe Internet as a resource and support network for diverse geoscientists
Many geologists think mentoring is provided by colleagues sharing a hallway, networking happens over beer at GSA, and learning about new research occurs when reading a journal or attending a conference. For a small but growing group of geoscientists, mentoring, …
Read MoreUse mentoring to fix science inequality
We suggest that mentorship is particularly important for scientists from the developing world. It can address the problem of science inequality while helping to resolve global issues.
Academics in developing countries are rarely able to take advantage of cutting-edge knowledge …
Read MoreThe Simple Truth about the Gender Pay Gap
Did you know that in 2013, women working full time in the United States typically were paid just 78 percent of what men were paid, a gap of 22 percent? The gap has narrowed since the 1970s, due largely to …
Read MoreReviewing Applicants: Research on Bias and Assumptions
We all like to think that we are objective scholars who judge people solely on their credentials and achievements, but copious research shows that every one of us has a lifetime of experience and cultural history that shapes the review …
Read MoreScientists’ collaboration strategies: implications for scientific and technical human capital
“Scientific and technical human capital” (S&T human capital) has been defined as the sum of researchers’ professional net- work ties and their technical skills and resources [Int. J. Technol. Manage. 22 (7–8) (2001) 636]. Our study focuses on one particular …
Read MoreThe Impact of Research Collaboration on Scientific Productivity
Based on the curricula vitae and survey responses of 443 academic scientists affiliated with university research centers in the USA, we examine the long- standing assumption that research collaboration has a positive effect on publishing productivity. Since characteristics of the …
Read MoreWhy Men Still Get More Promotions Than Women
Here are two articles. The first one is “The Ivory Ceiling of Service Work.”
“How does a successful associate professor with a distinguished publication record, a visible leadership role among women scientists on campus, and prestigious grant funding for interdisciplinary …
Read MoreRecognizing Gender Bias in Letters of Recommendation
This contains descriptions and example of implicit bias, stereotype threat, bias in letters of recommendation.…
Read MoreSex and Race Differences in Faculty Tenure and Promotion
Data from the 1993 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty are used to explore sources of the lower representation of women and minorities among tenured than tenure track faculty and among full professors than lower ranking faculty. A 2-step approach is …
Read MoreUsing Scientific Meetings to Enhance the Development of Early Career Scientists
Scientific meetings are important to the development of early career ocean scientists, yet little documentation exists regarding how meeting planners can develop activities that will be most useful to this group. Based upon the authors’ experience gained through activities of …
Read MoreWomen Count
I am a counter by nature. I count things as an effective way to occupy my mind. How many people are in this room? How many are women? How many are wearing glasses? How many people are using a Mac …
Read MoreWhy So Few? How to Increase the Number of Women in Science
Everyone agrees there are too few women and minorities in science. But then
opinions diverge, at least among scientists. Many believe that increasing
diversity is a matter of social engineering, done for the greater good of
society, but requiring a …
New report says cluster hiring can lead to increased faculty diversity
Cluster hiring — or hiring multiple scholars into one or more departments based on shared, interdisciplinary research interests — is growing in popularity. Increasingly it’s also seen as a way to advance faculty diversity or other aspects of the college …
Read MoreScience: It’s a Girl Thing!
A video that focuses on the talent and commitment of Dartmouth College scientists. It shows them at work in Greenland and comunicates a passion for scientific research to girls and young women who are considering a career in science.…
Read MoreNASA Johnson Style
Parody video from NASA titled “NASA Johnson Style” set to music from “Gangnam Style” by South Korean K-pop sensation Psy. Includes stunning shots of space and dancing scientists.…
Read MoreStriving for gender equity in science: Conference participation behaviour contributes to gender disparity in academia
Efforts to improve gender equity in science often focus on countering discrimination against women. This is clearly a justifiable approach because such discrimination remains a very tangible issue (e.g., Moss-Racusin et al, 2012). However, increasing evidence suggests that differences in …
Read MoreWhen a Man Is Making the Decision, Women Are Usually Overlooked for Science Awards
New research, published on the website of Social Studies of Science, finds that when men chair committees that select recipients of scientific awards, men are selected as winners of the awards 95 percent of the time. In this study, women …
Read MoreWikiProject Women scientists
Wikipedia wants to help improve the world’s access to knowledge about women scientists. There are lots of biographies of scientists that need to be started or improved.…
Read MoreRadio Stories about women in STEM from Northeast Public Radio
Listen to stories about fascinating women working and learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields; and learn about programs and practices throughout the U.S. designed to broaden the participation of women in STEM.…
Read MoreWhy It’s Crucial to Get More Women Into Science
James Gross, a psychology professor at Stanford University, has a 13-year-old daughter who loves math and science. It hasn’t occurred to her yet that that’s unusual, he says. “But I know in the next couple of years, it will.”
She’s …
Read MoreWhy Stereotype Threat Keeps Girls Out of Math and Science, and What to Do About It
Girls are still lagging in the classroom when it comes to math – which has a big impact on tomorrow’s workforce, especially considering the important role the technology industry will play in the economy of the future. According to a …
Read MoreTen Simple Rules to Achieve Conference Speaker Gender Balance
Recently, the quantum molecular science world was in uproar. The preliminary list of approximately 25 speakers for the International Congress of Quantum Chemistry (ICQC) was published online, with no women speakers listed. One reaction to this list was to set …
Read MoreNature vs Nurture: Girls and STEM
In a New England pub after a conference, our male academic colleagues shrug their collective shoulders at the gender imbalance; in their opinion, women drop out of science because their hormones make them “different”. As women in science know all …
Read MorePushing Women and People of Color Out of Science Before We Go In
We have all heard the disturbing reports: We need a million new STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Math) graduates, we’re in a crisis. We, as a society, seem to be suffering some kind of cognitive dissonance though, because with equal …
Read MoreRising StarGirls
We encourage girls of all colors and backgrounds to bring their whole selves to the learning, exploration, and discovery of the universe.
By integrating creative strategies such as free writing and theater exercises, we’ve created a new, innovative astronomy curriculum …
Read MoreRecent peer-reviewed articles about women in science
A list of recent peer-reviewed articles about women in science…
Read MorePathways to Science
Pathways to Science is a project of the Institute for Broadening Participation (IBP) that supports pathways to the STEM fields. They place particular emphasis on connecting underrepresented groups with STEM programs, funding, mentoring, and resources. Use this website to find …
Read MoreSearching for Excellence & Diversity: A Guide for Search Committee Members, National Edition
Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute (WISELI) has just published a major revision of their guidebook for search committees. While the link is a preview, you can order the full guidebook.…
Read MoreMS PHDs
From the webpage: “The Minorities Striving and Pursuing Higher Degrees of Success in Earth System Science (MS PHD’S®) initiative was developed by and for underrepresented minorities with the overall purpose of facilitating our increased participation in Earth system science.
The …
Read MoreNOAA Student Opportunitity
Multiple opportunities with NOAA for undergraduate students.
The Student Opportunities website is designed to provide information about educational opportunities that are available throughout NOAA. Information on scholarships, internships and fellowships including a brief description of each program; application deadline; award …
Improving Your Success in AGU Honors
To reduce the barriers for engagement and success in this essential scientific enterprise, the American Geophysical Union is working to build a more transparent culture around the awards and nomination process.…
Read MoreHow to Leave Academia
Blog of peer-to-peer post academic support. From leaving, the transition, and career advice.…
Read MoreHow Elementary School Teachers’ Biases Can Discourage Girls From Math and Science
We know that women are underrepresented in math and science jobs. What we don’t know is why it happens.
There are various theories, and many of them focus on childhood. Parents and toy-makers discourage girls from studying math and science. …
Read MoreImmigrants’ Success in Science Education and Careers
Written by ESWN member, Gyami Shrestha.
“The contribution of immigrants to the scientific and technological innovation and
progress of the United States is significant. Beyond the existing statistics describing their
status, this study explored the factors driving such immigrants’ success …
Globally Diversifying the Workforce in Science and Engineering
To remain competitive in this global and technological world, academic institutions and corporations worldwide need to take serious steps to created a diverse, well-trained and multicultural workforce. To this end, the Global Alliance in Science and Engineering for Diversifying the …
Read MoreGeoscience Education and Diversity: Vision for the Future and Strategies for Success
The second Geoscience Education Working Group (GEWG II) met on October 25-27, 2004 at the headquarters of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Arlington, Virginia. The GEWG II evaluated the effectiveness of prior and ongoing geoscience E&D programs in the …
Read MoreFeminism & Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge
Geography is a subject that throughout its history has been dominated by men; men have undertaken the heroic explorations that form the mythology of its foundation, men have written most of its texts, and, as many feminist geographers have remarked, …
Read MoreFor gender equity at scholarly conferences
Check out this interesting Q&A about striving for gender equality at scientific conferences.…
Read MoreExpectations of brilliance underlie gender distributions across academic disciplines
The gender imbalance in STEM subjects dominates current debates about women’s underrepresentation in academia. However, women are well represented at the Ph.D. level in some sciences and poorly represented in some humanities (e.g., in 2011, 54% of U.S. Ph.D.’s in …
Read MoreEcological Society of America (ESA) awards
The Ecological Society of America (ESA) sponsors multiple awards annually for a range of career levels. ESA encourages nominations from traditionally underrepresented groups and also have an awards specifically for the commitment to increasing diversity of future ecologists. Information on …
Read MoreDoes gender matter?
The suggestion that women are not advancing in science because of innate inability is being taken seriously by some high-profile academics. Ben A. Barres explains what is wrong with the hypothesis.…
Read MoreDouble Jeopardy? Gender Bias Against Women of Color in Science
This report asks a long-standing question: do the patterns documented in experimental social psychologists’ labs reflect what is actually occurring at work for women in the STEM fields? (Mitchell & Tetlock, 2006). The answer is yes. Gender bias exists, and …
Read MoreDiversity at 100: women and underrepresented minorities in the ESA
The 2015 Ecological Society of America (ESA) centennial celebration will recognize important efforts to recruit both women and underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities in the field of ecology. To determine the impact of these efforts, we evaluated the degree to …
Read MoreDiversity Isn’t Rocket Science, Is It?
Back in the bad old days, the workplace was a battleground, where sexist jokes and assumptions
were the norm.
Women were shut off from promotion by an old boys’ network that favored its own. They went to meetings and were …
Read MoreDoes gender bias influence awards given by societies?
AGU is a participant in a U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)–funded project called Advancing Ways of Awarding Recognition in Disciplinary Societies (AWARDS), which seeks to examine whether gender bias affects selection of recipients of society awards. AGU is interested in …
Read MoreCoaching Service: Escaping the Ivory Tower
Is academia making you miserable?
Are you becoming restless, depressed, apathetic, or cynical? Are you struggling to find a job or finish your degree? Is your teaching feeling rote? Have you lost your enthusiasm for research? Are you resenting your …
Read MoreBroadening Participation at the National Science Foundation: A Framework for Action
The National Science Foundation (NSF) supports the best ideas from the most capable researchers and educators in all fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Creating opportunities and developing innovative strategies to broaden participation among diverse individuals, institutions, and …
Read MoreAn international study of the gendered nature of academic work: Some cross-cultural explorations
This study explores the gendered nature of academic work based on the Carnegie Foundation’s International Survey of the Academic Profession. Characterisation of related yet discrete aspects of academic work describes commonalities between men and women, and in particular, highlights the …
Read MoreArticles from Nature about women in science
Science remains institutionally sexist. Despite some progress, women scientists are still paid less, promoted less frequently, win fewer grants and are more likely to leave research than similarly qualified men. This special issue of Nature takes a hard look at …
Read MoreAll About That Space
Video on NASA Youtube channel “ReelNASA” set to music from musician Meghan Trainor’s mega hit “All About That Bass”. Includes shots of space and dance routines featuring interns at NASA’s Johnson Space Center…
Read MoreAdvancing Institutional Transformation for Minority Women in Academia: A Conference
While the numbers of women pursuing higher education in science, engineering and medicine has grown (including the number of minority women) there is still a relatively small number of minority women faculty in all institutions of higher education including minority …
Read MoreAchieving Broader Impacts in the National Science Foundation, Division of Environmental Biology
Since 1997, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has guided reviewers to use two criteria to evaluate proposals: intellectual merit (the potential to advance scientific knowledge) and broader impacts (the potential to benefit society). The introduction of the Broader Impacts Criterion …
Read More6 steps for nominating a colleague for a professional award
Article by ESWN member Tracey Holloway on how to go about nominating a colleague for a professional award…
Read More10 Tips for Women Students in Science Fields
There is growing concern at American colleges about why so few women study science, technology, engineering, or math (the so-called “STEM” fields). Though women constitute more than half of undergraduates, according to a study of college students in 2009, 138,000 …
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