Issues for Ethnic Minorities and Women in Science and Engineering

Reading Assignments

Ambrose, S.A., Dunkle, K.L., Lazarus, B.B., Nair, I., & Harkus, D.A. (1997). Journeys of Women in Science ad Engineering No Universal Constants. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.  Introductory Chapter:  pp. 1-31

Campbell, G., Denes R., and Morrison, C. Access Denied:  Race, Ethnicity and the Scientific Enterprise.  Introductory Chapters pp. 7-46.

Rossiter, M. W. (1995),  Women Scientists in America.  Volume 2:  Before Affirmative Action 1940-1972.  Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press.  Chapter 16: The Path to Liberation:  Consciousness Raised, Legislation Enacted, pp. 361-382.

Selected short biographies (see coursepack) from  Journeys of Women in Science ad Engineering No Universal Constants Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.

• "Women, Academia, and Careers in Science and Engineering" by Mary Frank Fox

Ch. 8 in The Equity Equation: Fostering the advancement of women in the sciences, mathematics and engineering. Edited by C.-S. Davis, A. B. Ginorio, C. S. Hollenshead, B. B. Lazarus, and P. S. Rayman (San Francisco, Jossey-Bass Publishers) pp. 265-289.
• "A Lab of Her Own", Scientific American (1993).
• Browse the UW Equal Opportunity Office web site.  In particular, check out the reports near the bottom of the page that show the numbers of female and minority faculty in various UW departments and a comparison to the available pool.
• Browse Assorted Statistics about the University of Washington.  Look for data related to minorities and women in science and engineering. Determine what additional information is required to draw conclusions based on this data

• "Career obstacles for women in medicine:  an overview," V. Reed and B. Buddeberg-Fischer, Medical Education 35, 139-147 (2001).  Available on line through the UW library (UW restricted access) and the associated commentary in the same issue by P. S. Morahan and R. C. Richland (p. 97-98).
• "Promoting the Advancement of Minority Women Faculty in Academic Mediciine:  The national centers of excellence in women's health," E. Wong et al, Journal of Women's Health and Gender-based Medicine 10(6), 541-550 (2001).  Available on line as a pdf file through the UW library (UW restricted access).
• The subject of Gamble's Walker-Ames lecture is V.N. Gamble, Under the shadow of Tuskegee: African Americans and health care, American Journal of Public Health 87 (11) pp. 1773-8 (1997)., which is available online through the UW library (if the direct link doesn't work, go to the library catalog from a UW computer or proxy, find the journal, and connect to the on line version).

• The MIT Report.
• The American Institute of Physics Women in Physics 2000 report
• The Baltimore Charter  of the American Astronomical Society Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy.  Also, browse the conference proceedings at the same web site for the conference that generated the Baltimore Charter.
• Browse the NSF Women, Minorities and People with Disabilities in Science and Engineering 2000  Report, with emphasis on women

• Article by Anne MacLachlan, "The lives and careers of minority women scientists," in the course pack reader.
• MacLachlan recommends students "read from Chapter 4, "Diversity Patterns in S&E Enrollment and Degrees in the United States" (4-26 to 4-40) from Science and Engineering Indicators 2000, Vol. 1. NSF National Science Board.  This would provide a good structural background for the use of these kinds of statistics and lay the framework for some of my remarks."
• Continue browsing the NSF Women, Minorities and People with Disabilities in Science and Engineering 2000  Report, but with emphasis on minorities
• For more information, see MacLachlan's website.

• "Advancing Women and closing the leadership Gap:  The Executive Leadership in academic Medicine (ELAM) Program Experience," R. D. Richman, P. S. Morahan, D. W. Cohen and S. A. McDade, Journal of Women's Health and Gender-Based Medicine 10 (3) 271-277 (2001).  Available as a pdf file through the UW library (UW restricted access).
• Dual Science Career Couples Report, by Marc Sher and Laurie McNeil,  from the American Physical Society Committee on the Status of Women in Physics

• student presentation rescheduled for Feb 11.

"Assessing and Evaluating the Evaluation Tool - The Standardized Test", by Richard Tapia.  Here as a pdf file.

"Promoting National Minority Leadership in Science and Engineering"  Available through http://ceee.rice.edu/publications.html or as a pdf file.

For more information, see Tapia's website

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        A series of short articles to give you a flavor of different countries' environments for women.  We will concentrate on Germany in class, for which the first two references below are most important, but the others are useful for perspective.

• Science Article (Jan 11 2002; vol 295 p. 278) on European Strategies for Promoting Women in Science by N. Dewandre

(need UW computer for link to Science on line)
• The Scientist (Oct. 1 2001, vol 15(19), p. 31, 32) has two articles on foreign postdocs in the US. you will need to enter an email address to access on line.

Managing the Scientific Multitudes by Paula Park.  Also look at the (non-scientific) survey results on which the article is based.
Strangers in a Strange Land, by Brendan Maher.
• Science Article (Jan 11 2002; vol 295 p. 263) on China Debates Big drop in Women Physics Majors (news focus article by Yang Jianxiang).

(need UW computer for link to Science on line)
• 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)

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"Two Revolutions in K-8 Science Education," by Ramon E. Lopez and Ted Schultz, Physics Today September 2001.

Newly released report: "Upping the Numbers:  Using Research-Based Decision Making to Increase Diversity in the Quantitative Disciplines," from  Campbell-Kibler Associates.  The Report has a lot of good information, and the Appendices list how they did their measurements, interesting statistics and several excellent programs that are already in existence.

Ramon Lopez biography on SACNAS web site.

For more information, see Lopez' website

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• Selected readings from  "Talking about leaving : why undergraduates leave the sciences", by Elaine Seymour and Nancy M. Hewitt. (LC148.2 .S49 1997).
• Optional (you'll need to go to Suzzalo library for this) "The Loss of Women from Science, Mathematics and Engineering Undergraduate Majors: An Explanatory Account," Science Education, V79, 437-473 (1995). [This is the summary of the whole book that the above readings are taken from).

ROSSER, SUE V.  "TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF NWSA;  HAVE WE BUILT THE TWO-WAY

STREETS BETWEEN WOMEN'S STUDIES AND WOMEN IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY?"  NWSA
JOURNAL VOL. 14, NO. 1, 2002.

ROSSER, SUE V. "BALANCING:  SURVEY OF FISCAL YEAR 1997, 1998, AND 1999
POWRE AWARDEES"  JOURNAL OF WOMEN AND MINORITIES IN SCIENCE AND
ENGINEERING, VOL. 7, NO. 1, 2001.

Browse through the POWRE program archives on the nsf web site, here.

For more information, see Rosser's website

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Read the Executive Summary to "From Scarcity to Visibility: Gender Differences in the Careers of Doctoral Scientists," by J. Scott Long, and pick one other chapter of interest from chapters 3-7:  Entry into Science, Labor Force Participation, Sector of Employment and Work Activity, The Academic Career, and Gender Differences in Salary

For more information, see Long's website

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