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Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering(2007)

6/25/2015

A report prepared by the National Academies of Science and Engineering, particularly Committee on Maximizing the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering

A classic policy report: women face barriers to success in every field of science and engineering; obstacles that deprive the country of an important source of talent. Without a transformation of academic institutions to tackle such barriers, the future vitality of the U.S. research base and economy are in jeopardy.

OLD POLICY REPORTS??

You might say, this is old. The findings are still valid. The report raised awareness of significant related research on discrimination and the status of women. It provided an authoritative, quotable source. Does a policy report change policy? It was a major brick.

http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11741/beyond-bias-and-barriers-fulfilling-the-potential-of-women-in

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Vivian Gornick -- Women in Science: Then and Now (2009)

6/25/2015

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From Amazon’s blurb: Writer and journalist Vivian Gornick interviews famous and lesser-known scientists, compares their experiences then and now, and shows that, although not much has changed in the world of science, what is different is women’s expectations that they can and will succeed.

Everything from the disparaging comments by Harvard’s then-president to government reports and media coverage has focused on the ways in which women supposedly can’t do science. Gornick’s original interviews show how deep and severe discrimination against women was back then in all scientific fields. Her new interviews, with some of the same women she spoke to twenty-five years ago, provide a fresh description of the hard times and great successes these women have experienced.

WHY PICK THIS?

She describes the experiences of female academics of my generation. It is hair-raising. Sad. Tragic. I personally know many women whose lives were ruined by blatant discrimination and very public harassment for simple things, like advocating equal rights for women. They had to be TOUGH TOUGH TOUGH. They are lost heroines – the wasted lives of people who were born female at a bad time.

http://www.amazon.com/Women-Science-Then-Vivian-Gornick/dp/1558615873/

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Virginia Valian -- Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women (1999)

6/25/2015

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From Amazon's blurb: Why do so few women occupy positions of power and prestige? Virginia Valian uses concepts and data from psychology, sociology, economics, and biology to explain the disparity in the professional advancement of men and women. According to Valian, men and women alike have implicit hypotheses about gender differences -- gender schemas -- that create small sex differences in characteristics, behaviors, perceptions, and evaluations of men and women. Those small imbalances accumulate to advantage men and disadvantage women. The most important consequence of gender schemas for professional life is that men tend to be overrated and women underrated.

Valian's goal is to make the invisible factors that retard women's progress visible, so that fair treatment of men and women will be possible. The book makes its case with experimental and observational data from laboratory and field studies

http://www.amazon.com/Why-So-Slow-Advancement-Women/dp/0262720310

This was one of my first books about discrimination and implicit bias. It explained the roots of inequality and why we need laws against discrimination to counter automatic behaviors of exclusion and putting women in subordinate roles.

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AAUW -- Solving the Equation: The Variables for Women’s Success in Engineering and Computing (2015)

6/25/2015

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The report asks why there are still so few women in the critical fields of engineering and computing — and explains what we can do to make these fields open to and desirable for all employees.

More than ever before, 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 working as engineers and computing professionals. Just 12 percent of engineers are women, and the number of women in computing has fallen from 35 percent in 1990 to just 26 percent today.

http://www.aauw.org/research/solving-the-equation/

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AAUW -- Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (2010)

6/25/2015

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In an era when women are increasingly prominent in medicine, law, and business, why are there so few women scientists and engineers? AAUW presents compelling evidence that can help to explain this puzzle. The report presents in-depth yet accessible profiles of eight key research findings that point to environmental and social barriers — including stereotypes, gender bias, and the climate of science and engineering departments in colleges and universities — that continue to block women’s progress in STEM. The report also includes up-to-date statistics on girls’ and women’s achievement and participation in these areas and offers new ideas for what each of us can do to more fully open scientific and engineering fields to girls and women.

http://www.aauw.org/research/why-so-few/

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Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering(2007)

Vivian Gornick -- Women in Science: Then and Now (2009)

Virginia Valian -- Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women (1999)

AAUW -- Solving the Equation: The Variables for Women’s Success in Engineering and Computing (2015)

AAUW -- Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (2010)

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Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering(2007)

Vivian Gornick -- Women in Science: Then and Now (2009)

Virginia Valian -- Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women (1999)

AAUW -- Solving the Equation: The Variables for Women’s Success in Engineering and Computing (2015)

AAUW -- Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (2010)

Ruta Sevo

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