Work/life family balance resources

  • Living a balanced life: A retreat for women in academia
  • Dual career couples issues
  • Work-life balance issues
  • When to disclose a pregnancy
  • Archer poster for 2007 AGU conference, On the Need for Paid Maternity Leave

    • Women in Science, Engineering and Math in academia resources:

    Federally funded programs

  • ADVANCE sponsored by NSF
  • NSF ADVANCE policies that influence change
  • NSF ADVANCE practices that influence change
  • NSF ADVANCE activities that influence change

    Institutional and individual web pages

  • Colorado School of Mines Women in Science, Engineering and Math Program
  • Society for Canadian Women in Science and Technology
  • Association for Women in Science (AWIS)
  • National Center for Women and Information Technology
  • Association of Women Geoscientists (AWG)
  • USC WiSE list of external resources
  • Women in Biology, by Susan Forsburg at USC
  • CU Boulder Women
  • ADVANCE at the Earth Institute of Columbia University
  • Gender Equity Project, Hunter College the City University of New York
  • Tutorials for Change: Gender Schemas and Science Careers, hosted by Hunter College of CUNY
  • MentorNet Community - find a mentor, be a mentor
  • MPOWIR (Mentoring Physical Oceanagraphy Women to Increase Retention) resource list
  • INFLOW database - Quality Education for Minorities opportunities for individuals in Science, Techonology, Engineering and Math fields
  • Elizabeth Freeland's webpage - career breaks, dual career couples, women in science and physics links
  • Sandra Cruz Pol, U of Puerto Rico, Women in Science and Engineering resources list
  • Funds net services - resources for women

    Blogs

  • Female Science Professor
  • Women in Planetary Science Blog
  • Sciencewomen - A scientist and an engineer being the change we want to see
  • Thus Spake Zuska: Zuska, Goddess of Science, Empress of Engineering, and Avenging Angel of Angry Women,will tell you what everyone else is thinking but is afraid to say.
  • Am I a woman scientist? Musings on my experiences as an early career research scientist
  • Women in Science
  • Mother of all scientists; a female science postdoc and new mom

    • Reading list

    Journal/Articles

  • Study: Girls equal to boys in math skills, CNN
  • Reality Check, Inside Higher Ed, July 25 2008
  • Why women leave science and technology careers, Chronicle of Higher Education, June 18, 2008
  • Vital Statistics, The Economist, May 29, 2008 - Girls are becoming as good as boys at mathematics, and are still better at reading
  • Put a little science in your life, NY Times Op-ed, Brian Greene, June 1, 2008
  • Culture, Gender, and Math, Guiso et al., 2008, Science, 320(5880): 1164
  • Does Academe Hinder Parenthood? Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed, May 2008
  • Diversity Isn't Rocket Science, Is It? Lisa Belkin, NY Times, May 15 2008
  • Greg Laden's Blog: Germany creates 200 professorships for women
  • Mapping the Maze: Getting more women to the top in research, Transportation Research Board, April 2008, European study on obstacles for women in academia in Europe
  • A Case Study of Gender Bias at the Postdoctoral Level in Physics, and its Resulting Impact on the Academic Career Advancement of Females, S. Towers
  • Gender inequity in Whoville, Peter Sagal on NPR, April 2, 2008, All Things Considered
  • When Women Rule, Nicholas Kristoff, NY Times February 10, 2008
  • Women's role in adapting to climate change and variability, Carvajal-Escobar et al.,2 008, Advances in Geosciences
  • Why Can't a Woman be more like a Man? Christina Hoff Sommers, The America (from the American Enterprise Insitute)
  • The mentoring gap for women in science, InsideHigherEd.com
  • New York Times article, Rosenbloom, "Sorry, boys, this is our domain"
  • "What works to entice and prepare women for professorship?" White paper by Mavriplis et al., 2008
  • New York Times article, "The New Old Boys?" Kate Stone Lombardi, January 20, 2008
  • Fixing the Leaky Pipeline, Phoebe Leboy, TheScientist.com
  • Scientific American Mind: Sex, Math and Scientific Achievement; Why do men dominate the fields of science, engineering and mathematics?
  • Report on the status of women at German scientific institutions
  • US Government science funding agencies question US Universities on status of women in science
  • Boston Globe report on how tenure at MIT reamins largely the domain of men
  • Marchant et al., 2007, J. of Women's Health, Can the language of tenure criteria influence women's academic achievement?
  • New England Journal of Medicine Perspective, Climibing through medicine's glass ceiling, Andrews, Nov. 2007
  • Article on CU Boulder's Women's group
  • Opinion piece in Physics Today, Novmeber 2007, by Williams et al., A real-world plan to increase diversity in the Geosciences
  • A National Analysis of Minorities in Science and Engineering Faculties at Research Universities; Nelson et al., 2007
  • Nature News comment on Nelson et al report; white men maintain pole position in US Science
  • NIH survey of how postdocs view their career prospects reveals a gender split; Science 2007
  • Study shows women are losing ground in IT, computer sciences; THE Journal, November 2007
  • NIH Report on why women are leaving sciencce
  • The Feminine Critique, Lisa Belkin, New York Times, Nov. 1, 2007
  • Stanford corrects Harvard regarding gender-based performance in math, science, engineering; comment on Association for Psychological Science article by Mary Murphy and Claude Steele
  • Barres, Nature 2006, Does gender matter?
  • Bornmann, Nature 2007, Bias cut
  • Holmes and O'Connell, Nature 2007, Leaky Pipeline
  • Mervis, Science 2007, Scientific Medals for Men
  • Nature 2007 editorial, Scientific Elite and gender bias
  • Handelsman et al., More women in science, Science, 2005
  • UC Irvine ADVANCE Reading list (lots!)
  • Hitting the Maternal Wall, J.C. Williams, Academe 2004
  • Engineering a warmer welcome for felame students, Chronicle of Higher Education, 2002
  • Stanford School of Engineering Workshop on Mentoring in Engineering (2005) Procedings

    • Books

  • Alternative Careers in Science: Leaving the Ivory Tower, edited by Cynthia Robbins Roth
  • Women Don't Ask, by Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever
  • Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women, by Virginia Valian
  • Athena Unbound: The advancement of women in science and technology, by Henry Etzkowitz, Carol Kemelgor, and Brian Uzzi
  • Career Strategies for Women in Academe: Arming Athena, by Lynn H. Collins, Joan C. Chrisler, and Kathryn Quina
  • A PhD is Not Enough: A Guide to Survival in the Sciences, by Peter J. Feibelman
  • Becoming Leaders: A Handbook for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology, by F. Mary Williams and Carolyn J. Emerson
  • Tomorrow's Professor, by Richard Reis
  • Lifting a Ton of Feathers: A Woman's Guide for Surviving in the Academic World, by Paula J. Caplan
  • Advice for New Faculty Members, by Nihil Nimus
  • Obsessive Genius - The Inner World of Marie Curie, by Barbara Goldsmith
  • Alternative Careers in Science: Leaving the Ivory Tower, Edited by Cynthia Robbins-Ross