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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