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 MoreService Inequality on Campus
A powerpoint from KerryAnn O’Meara about service inequality on campus.…
Read MoreNewsletter of the Association of Women Soil Scientists
This is the 2009 newsletter of the Association of Women Soil Scientists…
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 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 …
Salary, 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 MoreRecognizing Gender Bias in Letters of Recommendation
This contains descriptions and example of implicit bias, stereotype threat, bias in letters of recommendation.…
Read MoreTrapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles Into the Darkness
A quarter-century ago, Boston had the dirtiest harbor in America. The city had been dumping sewage into it for generations, coating the seafloor with a layer of “black mayonnaise.” Fisheries collapsed, wildlife fled, and locals referred to floating tampon applicators …
Read MoreThe Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World
Russell Gold’s “The Boom” tells the story of the biggest innovation in energy so far in this century—the shale gas revolution. First invented in 1947, hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has not only become a major source of energy, it is …
Read MoreThe Inquisition of Climate Science
This book is about the politics of climate change denial. James Lawrence Powell comprehensively take on the climate science denial movement and the deniers themselves, exposing their lack of credentials, their extensive industry funding, and their failure to provide any …
Read MoreThe Control of Nature
In “The Control of Nature” writer John McFee turns his attention once more to geology and the human struggle against nature. In one sketch, he explores the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ unrealized plan to divert the flow of the …
Read MoreThe Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
In this award winning book Michael Pollan teases out big issues from speciously small phenomena. Chicken McNugget, for example, illustrates America’s consumption of corn and, in turn, agribusiness’s oil dependency. In a journey that takes us from an “organic” California …
Read MoreState of Fear
In “State of Fear” fiction writer Michael Crichton tackles global warming. Millionaire George Morton is about to donate $10 million to the National Environmental Research Fund (NERF) when he suddenly decides against it. His lawyer, Peter Evans, is as surprised …
Read MoreThe Ultimate Resource 2
Arguing that the ultimate resource is the human imagination coupled to the human spirit, economics Professor Julian Lincoln Simon led a vigorous challenge to conventional beliefs about scarcity of energy and natural resources, pollution of the environment, the effects of …
Read MoreThe Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters
With irreverence and pungent detail, Rose George breaks the embarrassed silence over the economic, political, social and environmental problems of human waste disposal. Full of fascinating facts about the evolution of material culture as influenced by changing mores of disgust …
Read MoreWhy We Disagree About Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity
Drawing upon twenty-five years of professional work as an international climate change scientist and public commentator, Mike Hulme provides a unique insider’s account of the emergence of this phenomenon and the diverse ways in which it is understood.This book deals …
Read MoreSilent Spring
Silent Spring is a book by Rachel Carson that was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in June of 1962. The book appeared in September of that year and the outcry that followed its publication forced …
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 MoreLiving Downstream: An Ecologist’s Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment
Poet, biologist, and cancer survivor, Sandra Steingraber investigate the links between cancer and environmental toxins.The updated science in this exciting new edition strengthens the case for banning poisons now pervasive in our air, our food, and our bodies. Because synthetic …
Read MoreIshmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
The narrator of this fictional tale by Daniel Quinn is a man in search for truth. He answers an ad in a local newspaper from a teacher looking for serious pupils, only to find himself alone in an abandoned office …
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 MoreHeatstroke: Nature in an Age of Global Warming
Around the world, climate change is indicated by natural events-especially in shifting migration routes-leading to results familiar (species die-out) and unexpected-like the discovery of a heretofore unprecedented “pizzly,” a bear cub with one polar parent and one grizzly. In this …
Read MoreGreen Gone Wrong: How Our Economy Is Undermining the Environmental Revolution
In “Green Gone Wrong” environmental writer Heather Rogers blasts through the marketing buzz of big corporations and asks a simple question: Do today’s much-touted “green” products—carbon offsets, organic food, biofuels, and eco-friendly cars and homes—really work? Implicit in efforts to …
Read MoreHot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution–and How It Can Renew America
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas Friedman explains how global warming, rapidly growing populations, and the astonishing expansion of the world’s middle class through globalization have produced a planet that is “hot, flat, and crowded.” Already the earth is being affected in …
Read MoreGlobal Warming: Understanding the Forecast
David Archer’s book is an accessible, entertaining, but detailed account of how scientists are trying to predict future climate change. It is an excellent book and should be the first port of call for anyone wanting to delve deeper into …
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 MoreField Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
Elizabeth Kolbert’s environmental classic “Field Notes from a Catastrophe” first developed out of a groundbreaking, National Magazine Award-winning three-part series in The New Yorker. She expanded it into a still-concise yet richly researched and damning book about climate change: a …
Read MoreFast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Fast food is so ubiquitous that it now seems as American, and harmless, as apple pie. But the industry’s drive for consolidation, homogenization, and speed has radically transformed America’s diet, landscape, economy, and workforce, often in insidiously destructive ways. In …
Read MoreDiet for a New America
“Diet for a New America” is John Robbins expose of America’s “factory farms”. Since the 1987 publication of Diet for a New America, beef consumption in the United States has fallen a remarkable 19%. While many forces are contributing to …
Read MoreDead Pool: Lake Powell, Global Warming, and the Future of Water in the West
In his book “Dead Pool” author James Lawrence Powell talks about the emptying of the arid West’s precious reservoirs, Lake Powell. This reservoir was created when the Colorado River was dammed in 1963, submerging Glen Canyon, one of the planet’s …
Read MoreCorrespondence: Gender Bias
Correspondence about multiple perspectives on gender bias.…
Read MoreCollapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Jared Diamond’s “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed” is a follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize winning book “Guns, Germs and Steel”. In “Collapse” the author explores how climate change, the population explosion and political discord create the conditions …
Read MoreCadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
In this meticulously researched and updated study of the economics, politics, and ecology of water author Marc Reisner covers more than a century of public and private desert reclamation in the American West.…
Read MoreBarbie: I can be a computer engineer. (The Remix)
A short story was written about Barbie becoming a computer engineer, but it was sexist in that the boys needed to come to the rescue to fix Barbie’s mistakes and the assumption that Barbie would only design the games and …
Read MoreBalancing the Scale: NSF’s Career-Life Balance Initiative
At a time when other nations are increasingly developing and retaining their own science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) talent, it is critical that the United States develops its own globally competitive, domestic STEM talent in order to ensure future …
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 More“Negotiation Academy” Podcasts
Each podcast is about 10 minutes long, and has a mini-lesson, based on a Columbia University MBA class in negotiation.
Negotiation often comes up on ESWN discussions, and was identified as a major professional development topic in our surveys (in …
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