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Women in Science and Engineering

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A Study on the Status of Women Faculty in Science at MIT. (1999). The MIT Faculty Newsletter, Vol. XI, No. 4.

Caplan, Paula J. Lifting a Ton of Feathers: A Woman’s Guide to Surviving the Academic World. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993.

Eisenhart, Margaret A., Finkle, Elizabeth. Women’s Science: Learning and Succeeding from the Margins. University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Etzkowitz, H., C. Kemelgor, and B. Uzzi.(2000). "The 'Kula Ring' of Scientific Success.” Athena unbound: The advancement of women in science and technology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Georgi, Howard. (2000). “Is There an Unconscious Discrimination Against Women in Science?” APS News Online. College Park, Maryland: American Physical Society.

Hopkins, Nancy, Lotte Bailyn, Lorna Gibson, and Evelynn Hammonds. (2002). An Overview of Reports from the Schools of Architecture and Planning; Engineering; Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences; and the Sloan School of Management. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Margolis, Jane, Fisher, Allan. Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing. MIT Press, 2001.

Rosser, Sue Vilhauer. The science glass ceiling: academic women scientists and the struggle to succeed. New York: Routledge, 2004

Valian, Virginia. Why So Slow? the Advancement of Women. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1998.

White, Kate. Why Good Girls Don’t Get Ahead…But Gutsy Girls Do: Nine Secrets Every Working Woman Must Know. New York: Warner Books, 1995.

Wyer, Mary, Cookmeyer, Donna, and Barbercheck, Mary (eds.). Women, Science, and Technology: A Reader in Feminist Science Studies. Routledge, 2000.

Yoder, J. (2002). “2001 Division 35 Presidential Address: Context Matters: Understanding Tokenism Processes and Their Impact on Women’s Work.” Psychology of Women Quarterly, 26.

 

 

Diversity

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Cole, Stephen, Barber, Elinor. Increasing Faculty Diversity: The Occupational Choices of High-Achieving Minority Students. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003.

Long, J. Scott, ed. (2001). “Executive Summary.” From Scarcity to Visibility: Gender Differences in the Careers of Doctoral Scientists and Engineers. 1-8. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.

Mickelson, R. A. and M. L. Oliver (1991). “Making the Short List: Black Faculty Candidates and the Recruitment Process.” The Racial Crisis in American Higher Education. C. Kerr, State University of New York Press.

Moody, J. Faculty Diversity: Problems and Solutions. New York: RoutledgeFalmer, 2004.

Smith, D. (2000). "How to Diversify the Faculty.” Academe, 86, no. 5 . Washington, D.C.: AAUP.

Thiederman, Sondra. Making Diversity Work: Seven Steps for Defeating Bias in the Workplace. Chicago: Dearborn Trade Publishing, 2003.

 

 

Dual-Career Couples

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McNeil, L., and M. Sher. (1999). “The Dual-Career-Couple Problem.” Physics Today. College Park, MD: American Institute of Physics.

Wolf Wendel, L. E., S. B. Twombly, et al. (2000). "Dual-career couples: keeping them together." The Journal of Higher Education 71(3): 291-321.

 

 

Evaluation

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Sagaria, M. A. D. (2002). "An Exploratory Model of Filtering In Administrative Searches: Toward Counter-Hegemonic Discourses." The Journal of Higher Education 73(6): 677-710.

Steinpreis, R.E., Anders, K.A. & Ritzke, D. (1999). The impact of gender on the review of the curricula vitae of job applicants and tenure candidates: A national empirical study. Sex Roles, 41, 7/8, 509-528.

Trix, F. and C. Psenka (2003). "Exploring the color of glass: letters of recommendation for female and male medical faculty." Discourse & Society 14(2): 191-220.

Wenneras, C. & Wold, A. (1997). “Nepotism and sexism in peer-review.” Nature, 387, 341-343.

Xie, Y & Shauman, K.A. (1998). "Sex Differences in Research Productivity: New Evidence About an Old Puzzle," American Sociological Review 63: 847-70.

 

 

Leadership

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Anders, George. Perfect Enough: Carly Fiorina and the Reinvention of Hewlett-Packard. New York: Portfolio, 2003.

Book, Ester Wachs. Why the Best Man for the Job Is a Woman: The Unique Female Qualities of Leadersip. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 2001.

Evans, Gail. She Wins, You Win: The Most Important Rules Every Woman Needs to Know. Gotham, 2004.

Frankel, Lois P., Baroni, Diana (eds.). Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office. Warner Books, Inc., 2004.

Helgesen, Sally. The Female Advantage: Women’s Ways of Leadership. New York: Doubleday, 1990.

Kotter, John P. Heart of Change: Real Life Stories of how People Change Their Organizations. Harvard Business School Publishing, 2002.

Kotter, John P. Leading Change. Harvard Business School Publishing, 1996.

 

 

Mentoring

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Bensimon, E.M., Ward, K., & Sanders, K. (2000). “Creating Mentoring Relationships and Fostering Collegiality.” Department chair's role in developing new faculty into teachers and scholars, 113-137. Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing.

Wellington, Sheila, Spence, Betty. Be Your Own Mentor : Strategies from Top Women on Secrets of Success. New York: Random House Publishing, 2001.

 

 

Negotiating

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Babcock, Linda, Laschever, Sarah. Women Don’t Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.

Kolb, Deborah. The Shadow Negotiation: How Women Can Master the Hidden Agendas that Determine Bargaining Success. Simon & Schuster, 2000.

 

 
 

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