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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U.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 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 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 MorePeer Mentoring: Career GPS
“We met every other week for 2 years. We discussed imposter syndrome and unearthed myriad ways it was negatively affecting our work. We identified ways to improve our scientific productivity and implemented strategies for effective goal setting. We learned how …
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 MoreWeizmann Young PI Forum: The Power of Peer Support
The academic path is a challenging journey full of hurdles and without a clear roadmap. As young faculty, we searched for support in steering through the complexities of our new roles. Here we describe our experience in forming a peer …
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 MoreScientific teams and institutional collaborations: Evidence from U.S. universities, 1981-1999
This paper explores recent trends in the size of scientific teams and in institutional collaborations. The data derive from 2.4 million scientific papers written in 110 top U.S. research universities over the period 1981–1999. The top 110 account for a …
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 MoreMaking Sense of the Atmospheric Science Gender Gap: Do Female and Male Graduate Students Have Different Career Motives, Goals, and Challenges?
There is a persisting gap in the participation of women in atmospheric science (ATS), particularly at the higher levels of ATS education and occupations. This gap raises questions about ATS women’s career motives, plans, and challenges relative to men’s. To …
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 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 MoreTitle 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 MoreWhat Is Relativity?: An Intuitive Introduction to Einstein’s Ideas, and Why They Matter
“What Is Relativity?” is a well-written and uniquely readable book that beautifully serves as an introduction to special and general relativity. Author Jeffrey Bennett begins an entertaining introduction to Einstein’s theories of relativity, describing the amazing phenomena readers would actually …
Read MoreSolving 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 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 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 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 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 MoreUncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature
This is a thought-provoking collection of essays edited by environmental historian William Cronon. In this book scholars such as Carolyn Merchant, Richard White, Kenneth Olwig, Donna Haraway, and others “contribute to an ongoing dialog about the environment.” The book has …
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 Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy
This book is not your average travel memoir. It is an introspective analysis of the social and political conditions of developing countries from West Africa to Thailand. Journalist Robert D. Kaplan now travels from West Africa to Southeast Asia to …
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 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 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 MoreThe Joyful Professor: How to Shift from Surviving to Thriving in the Faculty Life
The Joyful Professor is designed to help you be a productive and successful professor without sacrificing your own needs. Written by a professor who has been there and found a better life, the Joyful Professor will guide you through a …
Read MorePut Your Science to Work: The Take-Charge Career Guide for Scientists
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Special Publications Series.
Whether you are a science undergraduate or graduate student, post-doc or senior scientist, you need practical career development advice. Put Your Science to Work: The Take-Charge Career …
Read MoreSix Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
Possibly the most graphic treatment of global warming that has yet been published, Six Degrees is what readers of Al Gore’s best-selling An Inconvenient Truth or Ross Gelbspan’s Boiling Point will turn to next. Written by the acclaimed author of …
Read MoreStorms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity
An urgent and provocative call to action from the world’s leading climate scientist—speaking out here for the first time with the full story of what we need to know about humanity’s last chance to get off the path to a …
Read MoreWater Follies: Groundwater Pumping And The Fate Of America’s Fresh Waters
“if you want to scare yourself silly, read Water Follies, by Robert Glennon. In it you’ll learn how America is irrigating itself to death-just like the Sumerians-while sucking its groundwater aquifers dry.”-TORONTO GLOBE & MAIL…
Read MoreRequiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change
This book does not set out once more to raise the alarm to encourage us to take radical measures to head off climate chaos. There have been any number of books and reports in recent years explaining just how dire …
Read MoreTen Simple Rules for Getting Grants
This is a great article about writing successful grants from PE Bourne and LM Chalupa (2006).…
Read MoreThe Craft of Scientific Writing
Michael Alley’s book The Craft of Scientific Writing.…
Read MoreThe Science of Scientific Writing
If the reader is to grasp what the writer means, the writer must understand what the reader needs
Science is often hard to read. Most people assume that its difficulties are born out of necessity, out of the extreme complexity …
Read MoreWriting for Publication (The Academic’s Support Kit)
Writing for Publication deals with a number of generic issues around academic writing (including intellectual property rights) and then considers writing refereed journal articles, books and book chapters in detail as well as other, less common, forms of publication for …
Read MoreThinking About Science: Max Delbruck and the Origins of Molecular Biology
By Ernst Peter Fischer, Carol Lipson, and Max Delbruck.
Published in 1995.…
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? Pulitzer Prize-winning author and distinguished astronomer Carl Sagan argues that scientific thinking …
Read MoreSwitch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
Why is it so hard to make lasting changes in our companies, in our communities, and in our own lives?
The primary obstacle is a conflict that’s built into our brains, say Chip and Dan Heath, authors of the critically …
Read MoreWhat the Best College Teachers Do
What makes a great teacher great? Who are the professors students remember long after graduation? This book, the conclusion of a fifteen-year study of nearly one hundred college teachers in a wide variety of fields and universities, offers valuable answers …
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 MoreSo What Are You Going to Do with That?: Finding Careers Outside Academia
A witty, accessible guide full of concrete advice for anyone contemplating the jump from scholarship to the outside world, “So What Are You Going to Do with That?” covers topics ranging from career counseling to interview etiquette to translating skills …
Read MorePut Your Science to Work: The Take-Charge Career Guide for Scientists
Whether you are a science undergraduate or graduate student, post-doc or senior scientist, you need practical career development advice. Put Your Science to Work: The Take-Charge Career Guide for Scientists can help you explore all your options and develop dynamite …
Read MoreNavigating the Path to Industry: A Hiring Manager’s Advice for Academics Looking for a Job in Industry
Jump start your job search with detailed advice from a hiring manager! Whether you are just finishing up your bachelor’s degree or have a PhD and years of experience in academia, making the transition to the non-academic world can be …
Read MoreWriting a solid peer review
Nicolas and Gordon 2011 A quick guide to writing a solid peer review, EOS.
Abstract
Scientific integrity and consensus rely on the peer review process, a defining feature of scientific discourse that subjects the literature forming the foundation of credible …
Safety while working in the field
Fieldwork plays an important role in initiating students into the geoscience community of practice, providing learning opportunities not possible through classroom lectures, lab work, or computer exercises alone [Mogk and Goodwin, 2012]. It’s no wonder, then, that fieldwork is a …
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