ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Awards

NSF ADVANCE Program	University of Colorado - Boulder
ADVANCE Portal Website	University of Maryland - Baltimore County
Case Western Reserve University	University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Cornell University	University of Montana
Earth Institute at Columbia University	University of North Carolina - Charlotte
Georgia Institute of Technology	University of Puerto Rico - Humacao
Iowa State University	University of Rhode Island
Kansas State University	University of Texas - El Paso
Marshall University	University of Washington
New Mexico State University	University of Wisconsin - Madison
Rice University	Utah State University
University of Alabama - Birmingham	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
University of California - Irvine

Interesting Gender Links

Tutorials for Change:  Gender Schemas and Science Careers

Students and educators in science are largely unaware of relevant research concerning the role of gender in science. The goal of "Tutorials for Change: Gender Schemas and Science Careers" is to remedy that lack by providing data and explanatory theory to students, faculty, and administrators. The tutorials are based on work in psychology, sociology, economics, and other fields. A grant from the National Science Foundation to Virginia Valian supported the creation of these tutorials.

Making Sure That Academia Includes You

In the Spring of 2005, the Gender Equity Project (GEP), together with the New York Academy of Sciences' Women Investigators Network (WIN), presented, a series of three four-hour workshops designed to provide graduate students, postdocs, and junior faculty with the skills and techniques essential for professional success. The first session, Gender and Basic Foundations, covered gender schemas, the accumulation of advantage, how to build and maintain a circle of advisors, and the critical art of negotiation. The second session, Balancing Responsibilities and Time Management, focused on juggling responsibilities at work (e.g., teaching, research, and service), balancing work and a personal life, and time management. The final session, Self-Presentation - CVs and Interviews, addressed the curriculum vitae, cover letters, interviews, and general self-presentation techniques.

Women Faculty Group at Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Project Implicit

A collaborative research effort between researchers at Harvard University, the University of Virginia, and University of Washington. Most studies available at Project Implicit examine thoughts and feelings (including those about gender) that exist either outside of conscious awareness or outside of conscious control using a new method called the Implicit Association Test (IAT).

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Reports on the Status of Women

A Study of the Status of Women Faculty in Science at MIT,  March 1999
URL:  http://web.mit.edu/fnl/women/women.html

Committee on the Status of Women Faculty at Caltech: Final Report,  December 2001
URL:  http://diversity.caltech.edu/documents/CSFWFINALREPORT1.pdf

Report of the Task Force on the Status of Women Faculty in the Natural Sciences and Engineering at Princeton,  May 2003
URL:  http://www.princeton.edu/pr/reports/sciencetf/sciencetf-9-19-03.pdf

Report of the Steering Committee for the Women's Initiative at Duke University,  September 2003
URL:  http://www.duke.edu/womens_initiative/report_report.htm

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Articles

The Radcliffe Public Policy Center.  (2000)  Life's work: Generational attitudes toward work and life integration.   Cambridge, MA: Radcliffe Institute for Advance Study Retrieved September 16, 2004 from http://www.radcliffe.edu/research/pubpol/lifeswork.pdf

Trower, C. A.  (2001, September 14).  Women without tenure, part 1.  The Next Wave, Science.  Retrieved February 5, 2008 from
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Trower, C. A.  (2002, January 25).  Women without tenure, part 2:  The gender sieve.  The Next Wave, Science.  Retrieved February 5, 2008 from
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Trower, C. A.  (2002, March 22).  Women without tenure, part 3:  Why they leave.  The Next Wave, Science.  Retrieved February 5, 2008 from
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Trower, C. A.  (2002, April 12).  Women without tenure, part 4:  Why it matters; what to do.  The Next Wave, Science.   Retrieved February 5, 2008 from
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Books

Valian, V.  (1998). Why so slow? The advancement of women.  Cambridge, MA: M.I.T. Press.

Webcasts

MIT World, "Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women"
Speech given by Prof. Virginia Valian
MIT School of Engineering, Cambridge, MA
April 8, 2002.
URL:  http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/80/

The Advancement of Women in Science and Engineering: Why So Slow?
Speech given by Prof. Virginia Valian
Duncan Hall, Rice University, Houston, Texas
March 29, 2001.
URL:  http://www.rice.edu/webcast/speeches/20010329valian.html

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 Last updated: April 8, 2007