Featured Readings

The MIT report on women in science and engineering at MIT

Stanford University's Clayman Institute for Gender Research "Dual-Career Academic Couples: What Universities Need to Know"

Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the potential of women in academic science and engineering, a report by the National Academies, chaired by Donna Shalala, President of the University of Miami

Dual-career and Work/life family balance resources

Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (HERC) supporting dual-career hiring in academia

Dual career couples issues

Work-life balance issues

Workshops for women in science and engineering

Negotiating the ideal faculty position - Rice University ADVANCE program

FORWARD workshop at Gallaudet University; also resources links

Women in Biomedical Research: Best Practices for Sustaining Career Success workshop

Women Evolving Biological Sciences (WEBS), a career development workshop for women in ecology and evolutionary biology

Women in Science, Engineering and Math in academia resources:

Federally funded programs

  • ADVANCE sponsored by NSF
  • Institutional and individual web pages

  • COACh, University of Oregon - Assisting in the success and impact of women scientists and engineers
  • MPOWIR (Mentoring Physical Oceanagraphy Women to Increase Retention)
  • Colorado School of Mines Women in Science, Engineering and Math Program
  • Society for Canadian Women in Science and Technology
  • University of California, Irvine, ADVANCE site
  • Association for Women in Science (AWIS)
  • National Center for Women and Information Technology
  • Association of Women Geoscientists (AWG)
  • Women in Biology, by Susan Forsburg at USC
  • 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
  • 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
  • Alternative Careers in Science: Leaving the Ivory Tower, Edited by Cynthia Robbins-Ross

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