Issues for Ethnic Minorities and Women in Science and
Engineering
Physics 451 / Women Studies 485
Web Links Relevant to Class
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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
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.
Math
Gender Gap Doesn't Add Up
Raliegh, NC newspaper article on study of math scores showing negligible
differences between male and female student
Scientific American 1998
Overview of Women in Science
includes interesting links, as well
Academic Press Articles
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://nextwave.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2001/09/12/3
(Women Without Tenure)
http://nextwave.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2002/01/24/7
(The Gender Sieve)
http://nextwave.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2002/03/18/3
(Why They Leave)
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)
Reports
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From Scarcity to Visibility:
Gender Differences in the Careers of Doctoral Scientists and Engineers
National Academy Report, edited by our speaker J. Scott Long
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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.
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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
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The Full
MIT Report (all schools evaluate status of women faculty).
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The First (School of Science) MIT
Report
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Dual-Science Career
Couples: Problems and Solutions
Results of a survey sponsored by the American Physical Society'sCommittee
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.
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AAUP Report on
Gender Disparity in Academe.
Statistics and discussion of salary and rank disaggregated by gender
from 1975, 1988 and 1998 surveys.
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AAUP
Report on Diversity in College Classrooms.
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Summary of three research studies.
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NSF Women, Minorities
and People with Disabilities in Science and Engineering 2000
10th in a series of biannual reports on the status of women, minorities
and people with disabilities in SEM.
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Science and Engineering
Indicators 2000, Vol. 1. NSF National Science Board.
Lots and lots of statistics on the science and enginerring professions,
including dissagregation by race and gender.
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Balanced Lives:
Changing the Culture of Legal Practice
American Bar Association report on balancing work and family obligations
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The European Community - Women
in Science
Compilations of Science done by Women and Minorities
Statistics Compilations
Sites Related to our 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 UW Intervention Programs
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ADVANCE, a program
at UW for increasing leadership of women in science and engineering (Denice
Denton)
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MESA program , a program developing
K-12 educational materials (Pat McGowen)
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University of Washington Center for Women in Science and Engineering (UW-WISE
(Suzanne Brainard)
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
International Conference on Women in Physics (March 2002)
Compilations of Links of Interest to Minorities and
Women in Science and Engineering
Various Committees and Organizations
Overseas Links
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