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Important note: this page has not been updated since 2006. Some of it is probably out of date now.

One extant resource on gender equity in physics that I heartily endorse is the APS CSWP site: http://www.aps.org/programs/women/resources/index.cfm

Institutes

• University of Toronto Status of Women Office
• University of Toronto Women's and Gender Studies Institute
• Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
• IUPAP Working Group on Women in Physics
• Helsinki Group on Women and Science

International Reports on the Status of Women in Physics and Science

• A Strategy for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology (UK Government, 28 Apr 2003) ; see also UK Institute of Physics reports
• IUPAP International Conference on Women in Physics (07-09 Mar 2002)
• Canadian Poster and Survey (.ps) , "Women in Physics: Why so few?" - Janis McKenna's University of Toronto Physics Colloquium (26 Sep 2002)
• APS report (PDF) , Physics Today's article (mid/late 2002)
• British report (mid 2002) , 'Polite' women find it tough in physics (Guardian, 04 Sep 2002)
• Women Physicists Speak: The 2001 International Study of Women in Physics (AIP)
• ETAN Report on Women and Science: Science Policies in the European Union: Promoting excellence through mainstreaming gender equality (2000)
• Athena Project: Good Practice Guide 2000, Good Practice Guide 1999

US/Canada Reports on the Status of Women in Science

• AIP report concludes no PhD->faculty leak in pipeline in USA [Apr 2005]
• AcademicClimate - addressing the climate for women in academia (AWIS/NSF)
• 10-year survey on Canadian Women in Astronomy (Mar 2004)
• National Analysis of Diversity in Science and Engineering Faculties at Research Universities, by Donna Nelson and Diana C. Rogers , Nelson's website (US, 2004)
• Princeton: Report of the Task Force on the Status of Women Faculty in the Natural Sciences and Engineering (September 2003)
• NSF "New Formulas for America's Workforce: Girls in Science and Engineering" (August 2003)
• NSF "Gender Differences in Careers of Academic Scientists and Engineers: A Literature Review." (June 2003)
• AIP Statistics, NSF Statistics , National Academy (ongoing)
• STScI: Report on Status of Women at STScI , AURA response (Oct 2002)
• Michigan: Assessing the Academic Work Environment for Women Scientists and Engineers - University of Michigan (26 Sep 2002)
• Caltech: Committee on the Status of Women Faculty at Caltech: Final report (Dec 3, 2001)
• UPenn: University of Pennsylvania Gender Equity Report (Dec 2001)
• Toronto: University of Toronto FA&S Faculty Survey Report (2001) - c.f. Ivory Towers: Feminist Audits 2006 (Canada-wide)
• MIT: Report on Discrimination Against Women Science Faculty (Mar 1999) , Followup report coverage
• USA: Women in Physics (AIP, US)
• Wisconsin: Equality for Women in the University of Wisconsin System: A Focus for Action in the Year 2000 (25 Oct 2000)
• UIUC: The Status of Women Faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1999)
• Brown: Achieving Gender Equity in Science Classrooms: A Guide for Faculty (Brown University) (1996)
• Canada: Physics in Canada article on Women in Physics, by J.Lagowski and J.McKenna (1996)
• USA: Improving the Climate for Women in Physics, by Judy Franz (1993?)
• Harvard: Report on Women in the Sciences at Harvard (13 Feb 1991)

Resources

• APS CSWP Survival Skills Workshop - online presentation transcripts
• Managing Your Interview (UK)
• [San Francisco] Bay Area higher education recruitment consortium
• NSERC policy on paid parental leave , Canadian law on paid parental leave

Articles

• Women Physicists Speak Again (AIP, May 2006)
• The Necessity of Mobility, by Gene C. Fant, Jr. (Chronicle, 30 Mar 2005)
• Larry Summers debacle ; Why Files on Women in Science
• Study finds benefits to having children later (U.Texas-Austin, Aug 2004)
• Easing the Grad Student Baby Blues, by Joan C. Wilson ( Previous article ) [Chronicle, Jun/Apr'04]
• Parental Leave in Academia, University of Virginia report (Feb 2004)
• The Culture of Power by Paul Kivel
• The Speech That Was Never Given (University of Toronto, February 2004)
• When a Spousal Hire Becomes a Single Mom (Chronicle, 20 Feb 2004)
• Intellectual Diversity - a Critique, by Stanley Fish (Chronicle, 13 Feb 2004)
• Harvard researcher Mia Ong: the Physics 'glass ceiling' is still intact (Harvard Gazette , Jan 2004)
• How Babies Alter Careers for Academics (Chronicle, 05 Dec 2003)
• The Opt-Out Revolution (NY Times , October 2003)
• Academic Recruitment and Selection Guidelines (Dalhousie)
• Women in Science Push Higher on the Y Axis of Success (NY Times, May 2003)
• Can Title IX Do for Women In Science and Engineering What It Has Done for Women In Sports? By Debra R. Rolison (APSNews, May 2003)
• Why Science Must Adapt to Women (Discover, Nov 2002)
• Speeding Up the Long Slow Path to Change, by Meg Urry (CSWP Gazette, Fall 2002) and here (APS News , Feb 2003)
• Is Congeniality Overrated? (Chronicle of Higher Education , 30 Jul 2002)
• Collegiality as Tenure Battleground (New York Times, 12 Jul 2002)
• Stereotype Threat - see page 10 (Spectrum, Jun 2002)
• An Immodest Proposal: Have Children in Graduate School (Chronicle, 07 Jun 2002)
• The Baby Bust (Not!), by Maureen Dowd (New York Times, 10 Apr 2002) , Margaret Wente's take (Globe and Mail , 20 Apr 2002)
• NextWave Women Without Tenure: Part 1 (14 Sep 2001), Part 2 (25 Jan 2002) , Part 3 (22 Mar 2002) , Part 4 (12 Apr 2002)
• Harvard Faculty Diversity(Harvard Magazine , Mar-Apr 2002)
• The Backlash Against Academic Parents (Chronicle, 22 Feb 2002)
• Do Babies Matter: the Effect of Family Formation on the Life Long Careers of Women (NSF-funded study by M.A.Mason and M.Goulden, Feb 2002)
• Responsibility and Respect in Critical Pedagogy (University Affairs, Feb 2002)
• Women Who Have Children Early in Careers Hurt Their Chances to Achieve Tenure, Report Finds (Chronicle, 12 Feb 2002)
• Putting the AAUP's Family-Friendly Policies Into Practice (Chronicle, 28 Jan 2002)
• For Women With Tenure and Families, Moving Up the Ranks Is Challenging (Chronicle, 09 Nov 2001)
• How to Diversify the Faculty (Sep-Oct 2000)
• Howard Georgi's Status magazine article on Women in Physics (Jan 2000)
• Women Faculty Model New Values for Research Universities (Jan 1999)
• Stages in the Path to Equity for Women Faculty in Science Departments (May 1998)
• Two-Body Problem (mid-1999)
• Educational Pipeline Issues for Women, by Nancy G. Leveson (Jul 1990)
• A Person Paper on Purity in Language, by Douglas Hofstadter (1985)
• The Subjection of Women, by John Stuart Mill (1869)

Encouragement for Young Women

• BEST: best practices in building engineering and science talent (K-12)
• Girls, Inc. fact sheets
• Girls Go Tech
• Girl Geeks
• NSF document: New Formulas for America's Workforce: Girls in Science and Engineering
• Physics In Your Future - a glossy for school girls from APS

Books

• A review of Who Succeeds in Science? The Gender Dimension by Sonnert and Holton

Website Collections

• BerniceSandler.com
• Gender and Science Digital Library
• Women in Physics at the University of Toronto
• Annoted Collection of Mallow and Hake
• Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering
• Women Scientist Biographies for APS centenary
• UofT Status of Women Office: Web Resources

Canadian Organisations

• CAP Committee to Encourage Women In Physics
• Canadian Coalition of Women in Engineering Science and Technology (Umbrella)
• Society for Canadian Women in Science and Technology
• Canadian Association for Women in Science
• Canadian Women in the Mathematical Sciences
• Canadian Federation of University Women

US Organisations

• US National Academy Committee on Women in Science and Engineering
• APS Committee on the Status of Women in Physics
• US Association for Women In Science
• NAS Committee on Women In Science and Engineering
• American Association of University Women
• National Council for Research on Women (USA)
• US Women's College Coalition
• Women Leaders Online

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2025-03-08