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 …
Read MoreSafety and Belonging in the Field
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 MoreU.S. Agencies Quiz Universities On the Status of Women in Science
The U.S. government has begun questioning research universities to determine whether their treatment of women students in science and engineering violates federal law. Science has learned that officials from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Energy (DOE), and …
Read MoreThe Gender Divide in Academe: Insights on Retaining More Academic Women
Table of Contents:
– How small changes are improving gender balance at one business school
– How U. of San Diego added 8 female STEM professors
– Fostering gender equity on STEM faculties is not my job, some officials say…
Preocupación por el alto número de mujeres que abandonan la carrera científica
A society that wastes half its talent can’t go very far. But that is what is happening to us. There are many young researchers who end up abandoning a career in science.
Una sociedad que desperdicia el 50% de su …
Read MoreUnder the Microscope: A decade of gender equity projects in the sciences
More than a decade has passed since the publication of the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation’s groundbreaking report How Schools Shortchange Girls (1992). This report highlighted a noticeable absence of concern for girls in the educational debate and …
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 gender imbalance
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) this month launched a study into the root causes of gender disparity in scientific research. The study, which is being run by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), has allocated between …
Read MoreThe Science of Sex Differences in Science and Mathematics
Amid ongoing public speculation about the reasons for sex differences in careers in science and mathematics, we present a consensus statement that is based on the best available scientific evidence.
We review the brain basis for sex differences in science …
Read MoreRisk and Opportunity for Women in 21st-Century
Daniel Louvard does not believe in affirmative action. Time and again, the scientists in his Left Bank cancer laboratory have urged him to recruit with gender diversity in mind. But Mr. Louvard, research director at the Institut Curie and one …
Read MoreVisibility matters: increasing knowledge of women’s contributions to ecology
Recent scholarship about women and science is a good source of material for addressing the under-representation of women in science. This review is the result of an interdisciplinary fusion of science and women’s studies to critically assess teaching tools in …
Read MoreService Inequality on Campus
A powerpoint from KerryAnn O’Meara about service inequality on campus.…
Read MoreSurvey of Academic Field Experience (SAFE): Trainees Report Harassment and Assault
Little is known about the climate of the scientific fieldwork setting as it relates to gendered experiences, sexual harassment, and sexual assault. We conducted an internet-based survey of field scientists (N = 666) to characterize these experiences. Codes of conduct …
Read MoreWhen Scientists Choose Motherhood
A single factor goes a long way in explaining the dearth of women in math intensive
fields. How can we address it?…
Why Can’t a Woman Be More Like a Man?
Women now earn 57 percent of bachelors degrees and 59 percent of masters degrees. According to the Survey of Earned Doctorates, 2006 was the fifth year in a row in which the majority of research Ph.D.’s awarded to U.S. citizens …
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 MorePostdoc Survey Finds Gender Split on Family Issues
A new survey of how young biologists view their prospects suggests that the main con- cern for women is not a hostile climate but insufficient time to juggle the needs of family and career. The study of 1300 postdocs at …
Read MoreRole Models and Mentors
Don’t underestimate the importance to female graduate students of seeing successful female professors with children.…
Read MoreMen and Mothering
University policies and academic culture continue to discourage men from being active parents
It’s no secret that more than 40 years after Title VII guaranteed them equal treatment in the workplace, women with children still go home from work and …
Read MoreMothers in Science: 64 ways to have it all
The aim of this book is to illustrate, graphically, that it is perfectly possible to combine a
successful and fulfilling career in research science with motherhood, and that there are no
rules about how to do this. On each page …
Nurturing a Baby and a Start-Up Business
Fledgling companies are like sticky-fingered toddlers. You’ve got to watch them every single minute.
And yet a small group of women is proving that it’s possible to start a high-growth technology company and have children at the same time. They …
Read MoreSurvey of policies on “stopping the tenure clock” for child-rearing in atmospheric science departments
Among the challenges for women in attaining university tenure (or long-term employment at institutions such as the National Center for Atmospheric Research) is that of combining child-rearing with the rapid professional advancement often demanded of junior personnel. University teaching faculty …
Read MoreTo work or not shouldn’t be a question
We are a two-scientist couple, an Austrian and a German, both with experience working in the United States. So we read with great interest the Working Life story in which Michelle Gabriele Sandrian, an American, shared her experience working as …
Read MoreStories of Mighty Women: New Biographies for Adult Readers
From A Mighty Girl website
“When we share stories about famous women from history, adults in our community often comment that they’re amazed that they’ve never learned about these world-changing women. And, while people love the biographies we post for …
Read MoreNetworking as a Tool for Earth Science Women to Build Community and Succeed
Women are often underrepresented in academic positions in Earth sciences, with numbers below the critical mass to induce change and improve conditions. This can lead to lower productivity and
a lower success rate for female scientists. However, women can overcome …
Spotlight on Women in Fisheries
The list of women in fisheries who are making an impact is vast and ever growing. Fisheries recently interviewed six of the best – a collection of women involved at all levels in AFS: Diane Elliott (Research Microbiologist at the …
Read MoreWomen in Oceanography: Autobiographical Sketches
For the first “Women in Oceanography” issue published in
March 2005, Peggy Delaney and I started by sending emails
to women we knew—and asking each recipient to invite two
others to contribute sketches. For this compendium, I began
by sending …
Women Scientists in the Americas
This publication contains a series of interviews with eminent female scientists from the Americas. It aims to offer readers throughout North, Central and South America an account of their remarkable careers. These women relate their dreams, motivations and the story …
Read MoreThe academic jungle: ecosystem modelling reveals why women are driven out of research
The number of women studying science and engineering at undergraduate and postgraduate levels has increased markedly in recent decades. However females have lower retention rates than males in these fields, and perform worse on average than men in terms of …
Read MoreThe Gender Gap on Service
For years, women in academe have complained that they are assigned a disproportionate share of departmental service duties — work that needs to be done but that doesn’t carry much weight when it’s time to decide who gets promoted.
A …
Read MoreSalary, Gender and the Social Cost of Haggling
About 10 years ago, a group of graduate students lodged a complaint with Linda C. Babcock, a professor of economics at Carnegie Mellon University: All their male counterparts in the university’s PhD program were teaching courses on their own, whereas …
Read MoreThe Feminine Critique
DON’T get angry. But do take charge. Be nice. But not too nice. Speak up. But don’t seem like you talk too much. Never, ever dress sexy. Make sure to inspire your colleagues — unless you work in Norway, in …
Read MoreWomen, work and the art of gender judo
When asked at a September fundraiser in San Francisco how she manages as a woman in the Senate, Kirsten Gillibrand explained that most senators are older men, so they see her as a daughter. Rather than dismissing her, they have …
Read MoreWomen in Science
“Today, women are in the mainstream of science and many of the world’s top scientists are women.
In fact, the face of modern science would be unrecognisable without the major contributions made by women, including more than a dozen Nobel …
Women in science – passion and prejudice
“Scientific research requires special talents, just as much as intelligence, passion and diligence. I do not know a single successful scientist who is really lazy, and only very few who are able to pursue at the same time other interests …
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 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 MoreUse of double-blind peer review to increase author diversity
Two recent New York Times articles highlight the “Mystery of Missing Women in Science” (Angier 2013) and ask the question, “Why Are There Still So Few Women in Science?” (Pollack 2013). The underrepresentation of women is an issue that scientists, …
Read MoreRecognizing Gender Bias in Letters of Recommendation
This contains descriptions and example of implicit bias, stereotype threat, bias in letters of recommendation.…
Read MoreReality Check
When I started teaching chemistry at a women’s college 10 years ago, a sophomore named Tahnee came to me and said she wasn’t very good at math, so was a bit nervous about taking chemistry. She wanted to become a …
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 MoreSex Differences in Faculty Salaries: A Cohort Analysis
Annual salary increases for college and university faculty generally take the form of a percentage increase over base, rather than an actual dollar award. These percentage increases are typically determined without regard to the base dollar salary (Hearn, 1999). As …
Read MoreSex Differences in Faculty Tenure and Promotion: The Contribution of Family Ties
This study uses data from the 1999 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty to examine the ways in which parental status, marital status, and employment status of the spouse are related to two outcomes, tenure and promotion, among college and university …
Read MoreMind the Gap: Studies find continued disparity in tenure rates between men and women with families
“The hardest year of my life” is how Dr. Daniela Kaufer describes her first year as a faculty member in the department of integrative biology at UC Berkeley, and her third year as a mother. Amidst the demands of her …
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 …
Title IX as a change strategy for women in science and engineering . . . and what comes next
What does Title IX have to do with women in science? Title IX is a mechanism that – when wielded – successfully affects change for women. Americans rightly attribute the Education Amendments of 1972, commonly called Title IX, with the …
Read MoreThe Easiest Possible Way to Increase Female Speakers at Conferences
Though they may lack the overt frattiness of certain tech gatherings, academic conferences in the sciences are often similarly prone to a quieter kind of sexism: the all-male panel.
Women are still underrepresented as speakers at scientific conferences, something that …
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 MoreThe Matilda Effect in science: Awards and prizes in the US, 1990s and 2000s
Science is stratified, with an unequal distribution of research facilities and rewards among scientists. Awards and prizes, which are critical for shaping scientific career trajectories, play a role in this stratification when they differentially enhance the status of scientists who …
Read MoreScience faculty’s subtle gender biases favor male students
Despite efforts to recruit and retain more women, a stark gender disparity persists within academic science. Abundant research has demonstrated gender bias in many demographic groups, but has yet to experimentally investigate whether science faculty exhibit a bias against female …
Read MoreSupporting the Retention and Advancement of Women in the Atmospheric Sciences
There is substantial evidence that women, as a group, continue to be underrepresented in senior academic ranks (e.g., full professor, dean) within the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) research fields. In part, this is because women faculty tend to …
Read MoreThe Presence of Female Conveners Correlates with a Higher Proportion of Female Speakers at Scientific Symposia
Abstract: We investigated the hypothesis that the gender of conveners at scientific meetings influenced the gender distribution of invited speakers. Analysis of 460 symposia involving 1,845 speakers in two large meetings sponsored by the American Society for Microbiology revealed that …
Read MoreMapping the Maze: Getting More Women to the Top in Research
Why are there so few women in decision-making positions in research and why is this a problem? Only 15% of full professors in European universities are women, and women are under-represented on decision-making scientific boards in almost all European countries. …
Read MoreStaying Competitive: Patching America’s Leaky Pipeline in the Sciences
Premier science largely depends on the quality of the pool of future scientists. For this reason the United States has made a major effort over the past 30 years to attract more outstanding U.S. students, particularly women, into research science. …
Read MoreThe Real Barriers for Women in Science
Women are seriously underrepresented on academic science and engineering faculties because of a mix of “unintentional” biases and outdated institutional policies and structures, a National Academies committee said in a report Monday.
The report, the latest in a recent drumbeat …
Read MoreNew 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 in Greenland: It’s a Girl Thing
Is Being a Scientist All About the Science? Actually, It Is!
Science in Greenland: It’s a Girl Thing is a video created by a group of Dartmouth women graduate students who did field work in Greenland to interest girls and …
Solving the Equation: The Variables for Women’s Success in Engineering and Computing
More than ever before in history, girls are studying and excelling in science and mathematics. Yet the dramatic increase in girls’ educational achievements in scientific and mathematical subjects has not been matched by similar increases in the representation of women …
Read MoreNurturing Women Scientists
Nationwide and institution-sized surveys show a leaky pipeline partially patched, but the reservoir still far from full.
When the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) surveyed its postdoctoral fellows in 2003, more than 1,300 of them answered questions ranging from …
Read MoreNSF ADVANCE: Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers
The goals of the ADVANCE program are (1) to develop systemic approaches to increase the representation and advancement of women in academic STEM careers; (2) to develop innovative and sustainable ways to promote gender equity in the STEM academic workforce; …
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 MoreUnwritten Rules Blog
What women need to know about leading in today’s organizations.…
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 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 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 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 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 MoreRecent peer-reviewed articles about women in science
A list of recent peer-reviewed articles about women in science…
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 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 MorePreparing for an Academic Career in the Geosciences
As you prepare to begin your career as a geoscience faculty member, you’re probably wondering how to land a job you’ll enjoy, as well as what you can do now to lay the groundwork for a successful career in academia. …
Read MoreLeadership Training fro Early Career Researchers
A decade ago, the “sink or swim” culture was widespread in research. But academic institutions across the United States and Europe are now investing resources in helping young researchers gain the skills they need for climbing the career ladder. Top …
Read MoreLeaks in the pipeline
Family issues can cause women to abandon academia at every rung of the career ladder. Policy- makers have addressed some ways to get more women on to the lower rungs of the ladder. But solutions at the higher steps — …
Read MoreLearning Through Life: Balancing Graduate School and Motherhood
There are salient similarities among the cultures of mothering and academia. They both, for example, place harsh demands on one’s body and mind. If one were offered a purview into homes across the country in the wee hours of the …
Read MoreImproving 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 MoreInfluential Women in Science and Scientific Publications
Three engaging women spoke of their lives and how all have worked to encourage other women in the sciences, from medicine to geosciences to astrophysics.
“In the early 1970s, Judith Curry was the only woman in her class at Northern …
Read MoreInformal relations
Women are more likely to realize career benefits from informal relationships with colleagues and others if they are in a discipline that comprises at least 15% women and are not simply tokens, finds
a study.…
Indecent advances
Surveys of sexual harassment and assault during field research and on campus reveal a hitherto secret problem.…
Read MoreIncreasing the Recruitment and Retention of Women in Academic Geosciences: Where We Are and Where We Should Be
Having just completed a Ph.D. in geological sciences and now preparing to embark on an academic career in geosciences, I am inspired by senior female professors who have successfully juggled raising families and climbing the ranks in academia. I often …
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 MoreHousework Is an Academic Issue
Scientists are likely not to be interested in thinking about housework. Since René Descartes, Western culture has stringently separated matters of mind from body. Housework is, however, related to the life of the mind. Scientists wear clean clothes to the …
Read MoreIgniting Girls’ Interest in Science
Girls’ interest, participation, and achievement in science decline as they advance in grade levels. For example, in fourth grade, the number of girls and boys who like math and science is about the same, but by eighth grade, twice as …
Read MoreHope for Graduate School Childbirth Policies
A majority of prospective and current female graduate students believe that academia is incompatible with a fulfilling family life. These concerns are exacerbated when institutional support regarding childbirth is unstated, incoherent across disciplines, or informal in nature.…
Read MoreHarassment in Science, Replicated
As an undergraduate student in biology, I spent several weeks in Costa Rica one summer with an older graduate student on a research project deep in the cloud forest. It was just the two of us, and upon arriving at …
Read MoreGlobally 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 MoreGendered Innovations in Science and Engineering
The discussion of gender and science can take place on many levels. Some focus on issues of bias in who gets to do science. Others use much broader definitions, looking at the impact of gender on scientific questions and findings, …
Read MoreGirls’ and boys’ math performance now equal
Girls now equal the performance of boys on standard mathematics assessment tests, probably because girls now match boys in the number and level of math courses they take in elementary and high school, according to a new study by researchers …
Read MoreGender Relations as a Particular Form of Social Relations
The attempt by Foord and Gregson (1986) to reconceptualize ’patriarchy’ through realist methods of analysis is excellent. We find ourselves in particular agreement with their arguments concerning the superiority of the concept ’gender relations’ over ’gender roles’, and with their …
Read MoreGender progress (?)
Despite some success, the proportions of women in Nature’s pages and as referees are still too low.…
Read MoreGeek Feminism Blog
The Geek Feminism blog exists to support, encourage, and discuss issues facing women in geek communities, including science and technology, gaming, SF fandom, and more.…
Read MoreGender Equality in Academia: Bad News from the Trenches, and Some Possible Solutions
Despite numerous scholarly discussions of gender politics, there is little work on the situation of women within the Academy itself. Several recent reports and the brouhaha surrounding public comments about innate limitations on women’s scientific abilities by the former president …
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