Women's Caucus
Links

Inclusion and Access at ESF and in SUNY

• Office of Inclusion Diversity and Equity
• Center for Native Peoples and the Environment
• Louis Stokes Alliance of Minority Participation Program 
• CSTEP (coming soon)!
• Creating a More Equitable SUNY

Local Opportunities and Organizations

• Society of Women Engineers -- Greater Syracuse Section
• Women in Science and Engineering (including a mentoring program; ESF students welcome.)
• Women in Leadership Initiative (some components open to ESF)
• Women Transcending Boundaries (egalitarian exploration of spirituality).
• Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship Women’s Business Center
• Women in Medicine and Science (Upstate Medical University faculty)
• Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (job assistance in Upstate New York for "trailing spouses/partners"

Professional Societies

Please send engelman @ esf . edu suggestions for additional listings.

• African Women Leaders in Ag & the Environment

• American Association of Univ. Women

• Association for Women in Computing

• Association for Women in Science

• Association for Women Geoscientists

• Federally Employed Women

• Society for Women Engineers

• Out to Innovate™, formerly known as National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals (NOGLSTP)

• Women’s Aquatic Network

• Women Chemists Committee of the American Chemical Society

• Women in Higher Education

• Women in Technology International

• Women in the Environment

Fellowships specifically for women

• Faculty for the Future (fellowships for doctoral students and post-doctoral fellows from developing economies.)
• AAUW

How to (advice from the field):

• Attend professional meetings successfully (great guide on creating posters and giving presentations.)
• Prepare for an academic career in the geosciences (job search tips, advice for dual career, international and other marginalized identities look helpful for those outside of geosciences as well)
• go about Interrupting Heteronormativity (2004, Syr Univ Grad School)
• make classrooms, institutions and departments more inclusive:
  • Create a Family Friendly Department: Chairs and Deans Toolkit
  • Achieve gender equity in science classrooms--A guide for Faculty
  • Re-envision the PhD: Promising Practices(cool initiatives at other institutions, in industry, governmental, and NGOs to help create better future faculty members)
  • Center for the Integration of Research Teaching and Learning Inclusive STEM teaching project (inclusive teaching practices in science, technology, engineering and math)
  • Diverse: Issues in Higher Education (online journal)
  • Promoting Diversity in the Faculty: what higher education unions can do (guides on promoting gender and racial and ethnic diversity; creating a positive work environment for LGBT faculty)
• End "manterupting" (Sheryl Sandberg)
• Blow the Whistle and still have a career afterward (1998 original advice for scientific misconduct; 2010 version h extends to other situations)
• Handle illegal interview questions
• Change workplace culture to prevent sexual harassment Recommendations video Report
• Deal with Difficult People
• go Beyond gender and negotiations to gendered negotiations

Facts and resources to help counter microaggressions:

• Williams and Ceci. 2015. National hiring experiments reveal 2:1 faculty preference for women on STEM tenure track. Proc Nat Acad Sci https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1418878112
• Jacobi and Schweers. 2017. Female Supreme Court Justices Are Interrupted More by Male Justices and Advocates. Harvard Business Review
• Why so few
• Teaching evaluations reflect - and may perpetuate - academia's gender biases
  • Gendered Languate in Teaching Reviews
• Lego Friends go viral
• Family size in academia
• Let Me Play [sports; Nike's 1995 campaign]

Podcasts:

• Leadership in nature podcasts
• Tilted, a Lean-IN podcast
• The Excellence Experiment 9 episodes, exploring in real time the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Inclusive Excellence Initiative