Advice from the field
How to:
- Change workplace culture to prevent sexual harassment Recommendations video Report
- Handle
illegal interview questions
- Deal
with Difficult People
- Reduce stereotyping and unconscious bias in hiring (2015, Williams and Ceci, PNAS)
- Host a Speaker
- go Beyond
gender and negotiations to gendered negotiations
- Attend professional meetings successfully (great guide on
creating posters and giving presentations. The 'libary'
also has guides on writing papers and grants, other useful
tidbits for grad students)
- Create
a Family Friendly Department: Chairs and Deans Toolkit PDF
- Achieve
gender equity in science classrooms--A guide for Faculty at Brown University PDF HTML
- Re-envision the PhD: Promising Practices (cool initiatives at
other institutions, in industry, governmental, and NGOs to help create
better future faculty members)
- Prepare for an academic career (job search tips, dual-career
advice)
- Find work-life balance (NYS employee site--get userid from your HR office)
- End "manterupting" (Sheryl Sandberg)
- Blow the Whistle and still have a career afterward (1998 original advice for scientific misconduct; 2010 version which extends to other situations)
Podcasts
More on Building Inclusive Classrooms and departments
- National Center for Curriculum Transformation Resources on Women
- Center for the Integration of Research Teaching and Learning Diversity Institute (inclusive teaching practices in science, technology, engineering and math)
- Diverse: Issues in Higher Education (online journal)
- References Science and Engineering (this site is no
longer maintained)
- Annotated bibliographies on "gender, unconscious bias &
stereotype threat," "research productivity," and "recruiting
dual-career academic couples" (produced by Columbia
University's ADVANCE program)
- Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)-Gender
and Diversity site--searchable database
- AFT Report: Promoting Gender Diversity in the Faculty:
What Higher Education Unions Can Do
- Women at Home in the Academy (feature story in AFT on Campus, Sept/Oct 2011 issue)
- Interupting Heteronormativity, 2004, Syr Univ Grad School
- Why so few? Women in STEM, 2010, AAUM
- Solving the Equation: Variables for Women's Success in Engineering and Computing, 2015, AAUW
- Toward a Model of Inclusive Excellence and Change in Postsecondary Institutions, 2005, AACU
- Gov. Cuoma announces new SUNY Diversity Policy, 2015
- Men Advocating for Real Change (MARC)
Students who are also parents:
and sports programs:
For information about girls in science,
Visit the Take our
Kids to Work Day page.
On:
- Family size in academia
- Lego Friends
- Interrupting women on the supreme court more than male collegues
Women's History -- Celebrate some should-be-famous women!
- International Museum of
Women -- global online exhibitions
- National
Women's History Project
- 4000 years of Women
in Science
- Women's History Quiz
1 (Fun Trivia)
- Women's
History Quiz 2 (About.com)
- Women's History Quiz
3 (Sunshine for Women)
- Women's
History Quiz 4(Trivial Pursuit questions)
- The Greatest Women in Science
Commentary on the Wage Gap
