Publications

Below are links to on-line publications on women in science. Publications are available in the following areas:

Getting in: schools & universities
Getting on: glass ceilings, time management, mentoring, harassment
Subject areas
Newsletters
Other

Getting in: schools & universities

Barriers to women in academic science and engineering achieving gender equity in science classrooms: a guide for faculty

--a detailed and useful guide compiled by women science students, science faculty and staff at New England Consortium for Undergraduate Science Education Colleges, 1996.

Female friendly science: including women in curricular content and pedagogy in science

--a paper by Sue V. Rosser Rosser, The Journal of General Education 42, no. 3 (1993): 191-220.

The business case for encouraging girls into science and engineering

--from 'Tapping the Talent' web pages (1996). Tapping the talent is an agenda for action for business to increase the talent available to them by encouraging more young women into science, engineering and technology.

Why girls turn their backs on a science education?

--from 'Tapping the Talent' web pages (1996), including information in the following areas:

Barriers in the early school years
Barriers at secondary school level
Barriers at tertiary level

How employers can attract girls into science education

--from 'Tapping the Talent' web pages (1996)

Educational pipeline issues for women--by Nancy G. Leveson

Creating an empowering environment for the success of women students in undergraduate, co-ed computer science programs

--by Ellen Spertus, at the Twenty-Fourth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education.

Getting on: sexual harassment, mentoring, time management, industry

Barriers to women in academic science and engineering

--a book chapter by Henry Etzkowitz, Carol Kemelgor and Michael Neuschatz, in: Willie Pearson Jr. and Irwin Fechter eds. Who Will Do Science? Educating the Next Generation, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.

Research-doctorate programs in the United States: continuity and change

--report on the research-doctorate system in America, including facts and figures about doctorates to women and minority groups. Follow 'next page' links.

Draft action plan for women in science, engineering, and mathematics for the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Women scientists and engineers employed in industry: why so few?

-- a report published by the Committee on Women in Science and Engineering of the National Research Council.

Report outline: I. The Representation of Women Scientists and Engineers in Industry; II. Barriers for Women in Corporate Culture: recruitment and hiring practices, the workplace environment, paternalism, allegations of reverse discrimination, sexual harassment, different standards, styles of communication, perceptions of the role of women, retention, opportunities for advancement; III. Corporate Initiatives to Recruit and Retain Women Scientists and Engineers; IV. Attributes and Strategies for Successful Employment in Industry: S&E expertise and competence, ability to establish goals and to take risks, strong communication skills, self-confidence, openness to change.

Subject areas: computing, engineering, AI, astronomy, physics & life sciences

Why are there so few female computer scientists?

--a paper by Ellen Spertus, 1991. A MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Technical Report 1315. For a further list of papers on women in computer science visit Ellen Spertus's excellent site

Women and computer science.

Women and computing

--by Karen A. Frenkel, 1991. An article in Communications of the ACM, Nov 1990 v33 n11 p34(13) * Full Text COPYRIGHT Association for Computing Machinery 1990. Includes related article on a study of gender-related studies of computing.

Women in computing: an overview of the problems and possible solutions--by Nicholas Gray

Women undergraduate enrollment in electrical engineering and computer science at MIT--by an MIT committee

Women in the engineering industry

--a lighthearted lecture on being a woman in the engineering industry, by Kaitlin Duck Sherwood, 1994.

Engineering coalition of schools for excellence in education and leadership information and resources for reducing the barriers to minorities & women in engineering

--this huge resource is part of the WWW Ethics Center for Engineering and Science, with a strong US bias. Established in 1995 it aims to provide scientists with resources of relevance to their life at work. This site also contains many abstracts of relevant published articles which may be of interest including:

Female friendly science: including women in curricular content and pedagogy in science
Educational pipeline issues for women
A report on the glass ceiling initiative
Identifying special advising needs of women engineering students
Comparisons across cultures

Women in AI

--by Dale Strok, 1992. This article appeared in IEEE Expert, vol. 7, No. 4, August 1992.

The Women of ENIAC

--by W. Barkley Fritz, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing article on women in computing. An article on the women involved with the electronic numerical integrator and computer.

Women at work: a meeting on the status of women in astronomy

--this is a large and useful source of material about women in science and astronomy based on a conference held in at the Space Telescope Science Institute in 1992. Many interesting documents are available (requiring Acrobat reader), the titles include:

Women in science: historical perspectives --Londa Schiebinger
The influence of gender on advancement in astronomy, physics and mathematics --L. Billard
Women in science: past and future trends --Linda Skidmore
A snapshot survey of women in astronomy --Ethan J. Schreier
Some statistics on women in astronomy --Peter B. Boyce
The ``Problem'' of women in science: why is it so diffcult to convince people there is one? --by Sheila Tobias
Mentoring experiences of women and men in academic physics and astronomy --Grant, Ward & Forshner.

Women still rarely named to fill top posts at life science journals

--by Lee Katterman in The Scientist, Vol:10, #5, p1&7, March 4, 1996

Women in natural resources (WiNR)

--"magazine-journal in the field of natural resources." "designed and written by women at all levels in forestry, fisheries, wildlife, range, recreation, soils, and the environmental and social sciences as they relate to natural resources."

Women in science and engineering at the communications research centre

-- A report by a Canadian organisation - The Communications Research Centre - the report attempts to identify steps which would attract and retain female scientists and engineers to work at the CRC. (In French and English)

Newsletters & magazines:

DataLine

--newsletter on the "glass ceiling" faced by women and minority men in American corporations and academia

Women in natural resources (WiNR)

Other large sites of information:

Women, minorities, and persons with disabilities in science and engineering

--a large resource of on-line publications, surveys and datasets on these issues by the National Science Foundation. Includes the following publications (in a variety of formats):

1. 1994 and 1996 reports, with the above title (NSF 94-333 and 96-311)

2. Women and underrepresented minority scientists and engineers have lower levels of employment in business and industry (NSF 96-331)

This site also includes surveys, datasets and related publications in the areas of:

1. Science and engineering doctorate awards

2. Science and engineering indicators

3. Science and engineering degrees

4. Undergraduate origins of recent science and engineering doctorate recipients

5. Survey of graduate students and postdoctorates in science and engineering

Engineering coalition of schools for excellence in education and leadership information and resources for reducing the barriers to minorities & women in engineering

Female friendly science: including women in curricular content and pedagogy in science
Educational pipeline issues for women
A report on the glass ceiling initiative
Identifying special advising needs of women engineering students
Comparisons across cultures

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