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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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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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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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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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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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Fellowships and Scholarships for Women in Science and Engineering
- A list of fellowships and scholarships compiled by Brown University's Women in Science and Engineering program.
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Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering
- Many interesting links can be found at this site.
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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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Expanding Your Horizons in Science and Mathematics Conferences & The Math/Science Network
- The first Expanding Your Horizons (EYH) conference for 6th- 12th grade young women happened in 1976, since then over 550,000 young women have attended these popluar annual conferences held in over 100 sites throughout the USA. They have been encouraged to take more math classes in school and aspire to be a scientist or engineer. Our website describes the Network's history, current organization and lists all the current EYH sites.
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Advancing Women
- International Business & Career Network, Strategy, Employment For Women
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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."
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Association for Women in Science (AWIS)
- AWIS is a non-profit organization established in 1971, dedicated to achieving equity and full participation for women in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology. AWIS has over 5,000 members in fields spanning the life and physical sciences, mathematics, social science, and engineering.
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Barriers to Women in Academic Science and Engineering
- In Willie Pearson Jr. and Irwin Fechter eds. Who Will Do Science? Educating the Next Generation, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
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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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UCLA STEM-PLEDGE: Providing Leadership & Enhancing Diversity in Grad Ed
- UCLA STEM-PLEDGE (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Providing Leadership & Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education) is a student led group of master's and doctoral students sponsored by the University of California, Los Angeles chapter of the Alliance for Graduate Education to the Professoriate (AGEP). The primary goal of STEM-PLEDGE is to identify and address the barriers that prevent the full participation of groups underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics graduate programs at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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The Association for Women in Computing (AWC)
- AWC, founded in 1978, is a national organization that encourages, promotes, and serves the interest of women in computing.
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The Reluctant Feminist
- New York Times , April 8, 2001. " Two years ago, Dr. Hopkins led a knot of women professors who documented pervasive bias at M.I.T., prompting the university to admit it had unintentionally discriminated against female faculty members. The admission from such a prominent institution and its moves to correct inequities have resonated widely. There had been other reports at other universities, but this one looked beyond the numbers, to how women were treated. "
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Camille Paglia on why female grad students don't need mentors
- Salon Magazine , Jan 27, 1999. " Female graduate students should steer clear of cozy relations with their academic advisors -- whether they are affectionate men or bitter women. "
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Exploring your future in math and science
- The results of a class project in a women's studies course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It contains advice for high school girls on careers in math and science.
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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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Accomplished Women
- HHMI Bulletin, June 2002. " The climb to the top is not easy, but a new group of women is moving into the upper ranks of science. They urge young faculty to aim high--just brace for the inevitable obstacles. "
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How Women Make Science Work
- by Kristen Philipkoski , Wired News , December 27, 2000. " In the world of science and engineering, the small percentage of female scientists reflects the hurdles woman encounter in those fields. Carol Kovac is a study in breaking through the stereotypes. "
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From Scarcity to Visibility: Gender Differences in the Careers of Doctoral Scientists and Engineers
- National Academy Press, 2001. " Although women have made important inroads in science and engineering since the early 1970s, their progress in these fields has stalled over the past several years. This study looks at women in science and engineering careers in the 1970s and 1980s, documenting differences in career outcomes between men and women and between women of different races and ethnic backgrounds. "
