Interviews

Faculty Promotion and Attrition: The Importance of Coauthor Network Reach…

Researchers used coauthored papers in medical research to show that women and underrepresented minorities have a lower level of connectivity to networks and collaboration opportunities than their white male counterparts.

JGIM

Effect of an Intervention to Break the Gender Bias Habit for Faculty at One Institution: A Cluster Randomized, Controlled Trial

Using the most effective methods to provide bias interventions, researchers carefully designed a gender bias workshop that was delivered to faculty in over 90 departments at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The researchers concluded that the workshop indeed had an impact on the subsequent behavior of faculty and the climate within their departments.

Acad Med

In Search of Dark Stars

An interview with physicist Katherine Freese upon her appointment to the directorship of the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics. She discusses her career, research and current areas of interest.

Quanta Magazine

10 Questions for Jill Tarter, Astronomer

Astronomer Jill Tarter participates in Science Friday's 10 questions series, discussing her childhood scientific ambitions, her science heroes, and her work at SETI Institute.

Science Friday

Scientific Diversity Interventions

Science

Henrietta Leavitt & the Human Computers: Great Minds

SciShow, a popular YouTube show, highlights the work of Henrietta Leavitt and the other women who worked as computers for Harvard College Observatory in their Great Minds series.

SciShow

Women in physics: A tale of limits

Researchers Rachel Ivie and Casey Langer Tesfaye explain how resource distribution, career advancement, and childcare and housework responsibilities all must be addressed so that women are not continuously disadvantaged on multiple fronts once they enter the fields of physics and astronomy.

Physics Today

Promoting Institutional Change Through Bias Literacy

To better understand the impact and effectiveness of bias literacy trainings, the authors of the study used known best practices to design a bias literacy workshop for STEMM department faculty that they found to be quite effective.

Journal of Diversity in Higher Education

The Matilda Effect in science: Awards and prizes in the US, 1990s and 2000s

Despite the increasing numbers of women in science, female scientists are less likely to be recognized for their work. The authors argue that the “pipeline argument”—the idea that more women in science will automatically improve outcomes for female scientists over time—does not hold true when it comes to the number of women receiving awards.

Social Studies of Science

Science faculty’s subtle gender biases favor male students

This pivotal study for understanding the impact of implicit bias against women in the sciences shows how female laboratory management candidates are given lower competency ratings, likelihood of being hired, and starting salaries than their male counterparts.

PNAS

Gender Differences in STEM Disciplines: From the Aspects of Informal Professional Networking and Faculty Career Development

This study seeks to understand how male and female faculty access and utilize informal professional networks. The results show evidence that women faculty have a more difficult time accessing networks to help facilitate their research and career development.

Gender Issues

Assessing Readiness for Advancing Women Scientists Using the Transtheoretical Model

This study explains how the Transtheoretical Model of Change is useful for assessing whether science departments are ready for change. The authors also provide strategies for supporting individuals' behavioral change over time.

Sex Roles

NIH Director’s Pioneer Awards: Could the Selection Process Be Biased Against Women?

The authors present evidence for why the National Institute of Health's Pioneer awards selection process is likely biased against women based on existing research regarding decision making, job evaluations, and gender differences in application processes.

Journal of Women's Health

Blast from the past: Foundation Urges Women to Accept Careers in Science

Using language and arguments that would not feel much out of place today, these short pieces in the January 25, 1959 and October 27, 1961 issues of The New York Times urge women to enter scientific disciplines. The first article draws comparisons to the involvement of women in science in Russia to argue that women are clearly capable of contributiong to science. The second cites a National Science Foundation report that concluded that women are intellectually equal to men and therefore should be able to pursue scientific research.

The New York Times

Blast from the past: Lack of Women in Science Seen as a Loss of Talent