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Negotiation Skills for Women in Science
- "Economist Linda Babcock performed a comprehensive study of the starting salaries of students graduating from Carnegie Mellon University with master's degrees (2003). She found that students who had negotiated (most of them men) were able to increase their starting salaries by an average of 7.4% or $4,053 - almost the exact difference she found between men's and women's average starting pay. Through a series of similar experiments, Babcock found that in general, women tend to be less likely to initiate negotiations, more apprehensive about negotiating, and more pessimistic about their own worth."
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Postdocs - equal opportunities, Naturejobs 20th June 2002
- An overview of several European postdoctoral fellowships for women returning to the scientific workforce after time off to raise a family.
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Women in Science
- "This article explores this fourth possible explanation for the dearth of women in science: They found better jobs."
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Reproductive Success for Working Scientists
- "Long ago, I found myself pregnant while working as a postdoc at a federal institute. I was blessed with what seemed like the ideal situation for a mammal who wanted to increase her Darwinian fitness while enhancing her chances for tenure. I would be able to give birth and raise the baby past that difficult first year before I had to throw myself into the academic job market in search of a faculty position. Perfect, I thought."
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Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering
- National Science Foundation: "This site provides data on the participation of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities in science and engineering education and employment. The data are organized by topic and are presented in tables, graphics, and spreadsheets for downloading."
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Academic Careers & Babies
- Personal accounts of UC Davis women faculty.
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Women in Biology Internet Launch Page
- Links to topics around the web relevant to women in biology at all stages, but especially focused on graduate, postdoctoral, and levels beyond. Includes history, organizations, career issues, and aspects of the chilly climate.
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Managing Your Career Through a Pregnancy
- ScienceCareers.org "Pregnancy poses challenges in a researcher's career. Terms of employment may be unclear. A laboratory environment can be treacherous. And the vocational nature of a research career means that pregnant women often feel uncomfortable about adapting their work to their pregnancy or making cover arrangements for when they are on maternity leave. Pregnant scientists may also find that the level of benefits and support they receive depends on the stage of their career and the sector they work in."
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Women in Math Project
- This web site is host to numerous links to information about publications, people, associations, opportunities, activities, and statistics relating to women in mathematics.
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New Rights for Pregnant Grad Students
- "The last few years have seen a burst of activity by colleges to help professors balance the responsibilities of life on the tenure track with the responsibilities of being a new parent. But what about graduate students who become parents? Many do and must largely fend for themselves, negotiating leaves with their advisers and departments. Thats why experts are hailing a move just announced by Stanford Universitys chemistry department to adopt a formal policy for graduate students who are pregnant."
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Understanding current causes of women’s underrepresentation in science
- Ceci and Williams, PNAS. "We conclude that differential gendered outcomes in the real world result from differences in resources attributable to choices, whether free or constrained, and that such choices could be inuenced and better informed through education if resources were so directed. Thus, the ongoing focus on sex discrimination in reviewing, interviewing, and hiring represents costly, misplaced effort: Society is engaged in the present in solving problems of the past, rather than in addressing meaningful limitations deterring womens participation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics careers today. Addressing todays causes of underrepresentation requires focusing on education and policy changes that will make institutions responsive to differing biological realities of the sexes."
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Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering
- Many interesting links can be found at this site.
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The Laws of Physics
- The Chronicle, 11/11/2005. "As a postdoctoral researcher, Sherry M.J. Towers thought she had all the rights of a university employee. After a careful reading of her university's handbook, she calculated that she could take three months off after the birth of her second child, in 2003. But before her daughter was three weeks old, Ms. Towers was back in her research office making presentations at meetings, consulting with a graduate student she supervised, and finishing a paper. Her infant daughter, still too young for a day-care center, sat stashed in a car seat under Ms. Towers's desk."
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Study finds women scientists attracted to careers in industry over academia
- Companies Can Do Better at Recruiting Women Scientists, CatalystWomen.org, June 19, 1999.
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Women's International Science Collaboration (WISC) Program
- The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Directorate for International Programs announces the Women's International Science Collaboration (WISC) Program for 2001-2003. Supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), this program aims to increase the participation of women in international scientific research by helping establish new research partnerships with colleagues in Central/Eastern Europe, Newly Independent States of the former Soviet Union, Near East, Middle East, Pacific, Africa, the Americas, and Asia. Small grants ($4,000-5,000) will provide travel and living support for a U.S. scientist and, when appropriate, a co-PI to visit a partner country to develop a research program. Funds can also be used to support a second visit to the partner country or for a foreign partner to travel to the U.S.
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Graduate Women in Science
- Graduate Women in Science is an interdisciplinary society of scientists who encourage and support women to enter and achieve success in science through full participation in their scientific research and its applications; in the development and advancement of women; in the integration of their careers, personal goals, and society's needs; and by professional networking and mutual inspiration.
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The Women in Engineering Organization
- WIEO.org is a partnership between Tufts University, the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), and the Women in Engineering Programs and Advocates Network (WEPAN), and is funded by a grant from GE Fund. The site offers a working compilation of engineering programs running throughout the country as well as opportunities and information about engineering for each of our target groups: girls, parents, k-12 teachers, guidance counselors, college women, college faculty, industry professionals, and project directors. In addition, each of these target groups can find such things as, engineering related books, fun games and contests, scholarships, internships, jobs, lesson plans, funding opportunities, discussion boards and especially programs running throughout the country they might like to take part in. WIEO.org Your Engineering Directory.
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Association for Women in Science's Mentoring Project
- The project focused on career opportunities and options, selection of academic course work, research opportunities, professional contacts and networking, self-image and self-confidence, and balancing work and family. In addition, this program focused on small group mentoring, facilitating peer mentoring as well as student-to-mentor interaction. The project recently won a Presidential Mentoring Award.
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Alberta Women's Science Network
- Mission: " To give women in science opportunities to realize their full potential and to attain a higher profile in society through visibility, networking and programs designed to fulfill these goals. "
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Women and Mathematics (WAM)
- WAM is an advising and mentoring program whose purpose is to stimulate interest in mathematics among all students, regardless of their career choices. It is a program to motivate and inspire students, especially young women, towards careers in mathematics, science, and technology. This program is administered by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA).
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Women in Technology International (WITI)
- " WITI, founded in 1989, is a rapidly growing association of more than 6,000 members, 95% of whom are professional women working in technology organizations. WITI is dedicated to increasing the number of women in executive roles, helping women become more financially independent and technology-literate, and encouraging young women to choose careers in science and technology. "
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Society of Women Engineers (SWE)
- SWE's Mission: " stimulates women to achieve full potential in careers as engineers and leaders, expands the image of the engineering profession as a positive force in improving the quality of life, and demonstrates the value of diversity "
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TAP: The Ada Project
- Tapping internet resources for women in computer science.
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Women in Math (WIM)
- Women in Math (WIM) is an organization at the University of Maryland College Park (UMCP). WIM is dedicated to serving the needs of women mathematicians at UMCP. In order to fulfill that purpose, WIM members have organized a number of events. Two ongoing activities are monthly lunch get-togethers and biweekly graduate women talks. We also have an electronic newsletter for our members. The web page features links to numerous sites related to women and the sciences.
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Male Scientist Writes of Life as Female Scientist
- "Neurobiologist Ben Barres has a unique perspective on former Harvard president Lawrence Summers's assertion that innate differences between the sexes might explain why many fewer women than men reach the highest echelons of science."
