Issues for Ethnic Minorities and Women in
Science and
Engineering
Physics 451 / Women Studies 485
Web Links Relevant to Class
last update 23 Jan 06, with a few
minor upgrades 30 Dec 08. Apologies for out-of-date links -- they
will be fixed as the quarter gets underway.
Articles aimed at General Public
Articles aimed at Academic Audience
Reports
Compilations of Science done by Women and Minorities
Statistics Compilations
Sites Related to our Outside Speakers
Links to UW Intervention Programs
Conference Web Sites related to the course
Compilations of Links of Interest to Minorities and
Women in Science and Engineering
Various Committees and Organizations
Overseas Links
Popular Press Articles or
compilations of events covered in the popular press
Lawrence Summers
on women in science 2005 (Harvard President)
compiled by Women in science and
engineering leadership institute, Univ. Wisconsin, Madison
GAO
Finds Lower Pay for Women, Minorities at Energy Department Labs
Washington Post April 11, 2005
press release
from congress (who ordered the report), with link to the full report.
Edge-sponsored debate in response to
Summers on Gender and Science: Pinker
vs. Spelke
NY
Times article on Women in Astronomy
Discussion of status of women in astronomy based on presentation
at AAS Annual Symposium. Describes "benign neglect" issues.
Detroit
News Summary of Univ. Michigan Affirmiative Action Case
includes links to Supreme Court arguments, etc. Published
the week before the Supreme Court decision.
Academic Press Articles
- The Laws
of Physics: A Postdoc's pregnancy derails her career
Chronical of Higher Education
November 11, 2005, plus subsequent discussion which is VERY
enlightening.
- Women
Faculty make Little Progress
a look at 6 years of data on the
gender distribution of Chemistry Faculty at the top 50 institutions.
Chemical and Engineering News, October 31, 2005 (vol 83, pp. 38-39).
- These articles on Women Without Tenure appeared in the
Association for
the Advancement of Science's online magazine,
Next Wave.
Written by Cathy Trower of the Harvard Graduate School of
Education.
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/
- Faculty
Diversity
Too little for too long by Cathy A. Trower and Richard P. Chait
Harvard Magazine, page 33, March-April 2002: Volume 104, Number 4
Article includes data on women/minority faculty percentages at
various
types of institutions, plus recommendations on changes to the tenure
process
to improve diversity
- Women Physicists and Chemists are making
Slow Progress in
Academe; Companion
article on Astronomy
Jan 2002
Status: Newsletter of the Committee on the Status of Women in
Astronomy Articles
detail differential retention rates of male and femalegraduate students
and hiring rates of assistant professors vs. Ph.D. pool at top 25
institutions
- Nature Article (October 2000) on Japanese
Court Backs Woman Researcher
Japanese woman successfully sued for sex discrimination in
Japanese
University (need UW computer for link).
- Nature Article (March
2001) on Climate for Women Scientists in
Japan, One
Woman is Enough ...
follow up article on above (UW restricted access to Nature)
- “Do
Babies Matter? The Effect ofFamily Formation on the
Lifelong
Careers of Academic Men and Women”. By Mary Ann Mason and Marc
Goulden. AmericanAssociation for University Professors article
detailing
how
the timing of children has a gender-dependent impact on tenure. http://www.aaup.org/publications/Academe/2002/02nd/02ndmas.htm
Reports
- An
Agenda for Excellence: Creating Flexibility in Tenure-Track
Faculty Careers (2005)
American Council on Education
report. Executive summary available for download as a pdf
file. The full report may be ordered for the cost of
shipping. There is also an excellent press
release summarizing the results of the report.
- From
Scarcity
to Visibility:
Gender Differences in the Careers of Doctoral Scientists and Engineers
National Academy Report, edited by J. Scott Long
- Leaving
Science: An analysis of occupational exit of Men and Women from
Science and Engineering
by Haverford Economist, Ann
Preston
- No Child
Left Behind
US Dept. of Education site for the act signed by Pres. Bush
January
8 onnew requirements for reading, science and math testing in grades 3-8.
- CAWMSET report,
the
Commission
on the Advancement of Women and Minorities in Science, Engineering and
Technology (also known as the Morella Commission)
a congressional-level commission
- BEST -- Building
Engineering and Science Talent
a
public-private partnership to follow through on the September 2000
recommendations of the Congressional Commission on the Advancement of
Women and Minorities in Science, Engineering and Technology Development.
- The Full
MIT Report (all schools evaluate status of women faculty).
- The First (School of Science) MIT
Report
- University
of California Task force on Faculty Diversity
systemwide evaluation of all 10
UC campuses
- A compilation
by the National Academies of all the University Gender Studies that
followed the MIT report, including links.
- Dual-Science
Career
Couples: Problems and Solutions
Results of a survey sponsored by the American Physical Society's Committee
on the Status of Women in Physics on Dual-Career Couples. Includes
summary of situations (good and bad) experienced, sample spousal hiring
policies and shared/split position policies.
- AAUP
Report on
Gender Disparity in Academe.
Statistics and discussion of salary and rank disaggregated by
gender
from 1975, 1988 and 1998 surveys.
AAUP
Reports related to Women in the Academic Profession
a list of links to various reports related to women in academia
- AAUP
Resource Guide to Diversity in Education.
compiled and maintained by the AAUP committee on HBCU and Scholars of
Color. Go up one
link for other diversity related reports.
- NSF
Women,
Minorities
and People with Disabilities in Science and Engineering 2004
12th in a series of biannual reports on the status of women,
minorities
and people with disabilities in SEM.
- Science
and Engineering
Indicators 2004, Vol. 1. NSF National Science Board.
Lots and lots of statistics on the science and enginerring
professions,
including dissagregation by race and gender.
- Balanced
Lives:
Changing the Culture of Legal Practice
American Bar Association report on balancing work and family
obligations
- University of Washington Leadership,
- UW
Diversity Appraisal
- UW
Leadership, Culture and Values Initiative
starts with survey of faculty and
staff regarding climate issues at UW; many results disaggregated by
gender, minority status
Compilations of Science done by Women and
Minorities
Statistics Compilations
Sites Related to Previous Year's Outside
Speakers
Minority
Ph.D. Project at UC Berkeley (Anne MacLachlan)
Center for Excellence and Equity
in
Education,
Rice Univeristy (Richard Tapia)
American Physical Society Teacher-scientist
Alliance Institute (Ramon Lopez)
From Scarcity
to
Visibility:
Gender Differences in the Careers of Doctoral Scientists and Engineers,
National
Academy Report, edited by our speaker J. Scott Long
Space Science Institute Workshops
for K-12 Outreach (Ramon Lopez)
Links to Intervention Programs at UW and
elsewhere
- ADVANCE, a
program
at UW for increasing leadership of women in science and engineering
- MESA program ,
(Mathematics, Engineering and Science Achievement) a
program
developing
K-12 educational materials
- University of Washington Center for Women in Science and
Engineering (UW-WISE)
- UW
Women's Center hosts a number of programs aimed at increasing
participation of women in science and engineering, including Making
Connections (aimed at high school students) and Women and Girls in Technology
- College of
Engineering Diversity general web page
- Minority Students
in Engineering Program supports enrolled students "from African
American, Hispanic and Native American communities who are pursuing
degrees in engineering and science" as well as outreach programs to the
community.
- UW
Medicine Office of Multicultural Affairs sponsors a number of
programs for outreach and recruiting from underrepresented communities.
- Pre-major in Astronomy
program, aimed at freshman with interest in the physical sciences,
including astronomy.
- SCORE
(Student and
Community Relations Engineering Advising & Student Center)
- NASA Space Grant
Consortium, which supports of number of programs for involving
students in research.
- Diversity
in
Computer Science and Engineering,
- UW
Programs not specific to the sciences and engineering, but which
include it (some may have sub-programs specific to SMET):
- UW Office of
Minority
Affairs sponsors a number of outreach and support programs.
- UW General K-12 Outreach Page,
which includes several science-related programs.
- McNair Scholars
Achievement Program. This program for graduate fellowships is
not specific to science and engineering (although McNair was an
astronaut).
- GO-MAP
(Graduate
Opportunities & Minority Achievement Program) Support (both
monetary and community) for minority graduate students
- Gear-Up,
a program to help transition students to UW.
- Jump-start,
an early education program that recruits
UW students to mentor low-income preschool children
- Educational
Opportunity Center, provides
counseling and information on college admissions to qualified adults
who want to enter or continue a program of postsecondary education.
- DO-IT (Disabilities,
Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology), providing and
promoting services for disabled students.
- National programs with UW
people involved:
- Expanding Your Horizons
-- workshops for middle school girls
- MentorNet, a nonprofit
e-mentoring network that addresses the retention and
success of those in engineering, science and mathematics, particularly
but not exclusively women and other underrepresented groups.
Conference Web Sites related to the
course
Careers
of Women in Science: Issues of Power and Control (May 2001)
Univ. Wisconsin Women and Science Program Curriculum
Reform Institute (June 2002).
International Union of Pure and Applied Physics Working
Group on Women in Physics (Conferences Spring 2002, Spring 2004)
Compilations of Links of Interest to
Minorities
and
Women in Science and Engineering
Various Committees and Organizations
Overseas Links
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