Blogs
5 Brainy Birds
The Contemplative Mammoth
FemaleScienceProfessor
From The Lab Bench
Hope Jahren Sure Can Write
Mammals Suck … Milk!
Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman
Scitable: Women in Science
Tenure She Wrote
TrowelBlazers
University of Venus
Committed to Dialogue
Funding Sources
AAAS Women’s International Science Collaboration
ADVANCE NSF Program
Ford Foundation Fellowship Program (pre-doctoral, post-doctoral, and dissertation) – typically due in November
L’Oréal USA For Women in Science Fellowship
SDE/GWIS Fellowship
Undergraduate
USDA Women and Minorities STEM Fellowship (from rural areas) – typically due in April
Science Ambassador Scholarship from Cards Against Humanity – typically due in December
See also: minoritypostdoc funding sources
Networks
American Association of University Women
The Association for Women in Science
The Association for Women Soil Scientists
Earth Science Women’s Network
DiversifyEEB
Gap Junction Science
Graduate Women in Science
Graduate Women International
Minority Postdoc
Women in Learning
Publications about Gender in the Sciences
JOURNAL ARTICLES
The sexual misconduct case that has rocked anthropology (Science 2016)
Being Female In Science (From the Lab Bench Blog 2016)
The climate for women in science: the good, the bad, the unchangeable (Psychology of Women Quarterly 2016)
Gendered Conversation in a Social Game-Streaming Platform (ArXiv Preprints 2016)
Gender, Productivity, and Prestige in Computer Science Faculty Hiring Networks (Proc. World Wide Web Conference 2016)
A global call for action to include gender in research impact assessment (Health Research Policy and Systems 2016)
Males Under-Estimate Academic Performance of Their Female Peers in Undergraduate Biology Classrooms (PLOS ONE 2016)
Cognitive Difficulty and Format of Exams Predicts Gender and Socioeconomic Gaps in Exam Performance of Students in Introductory Biology Courses (CBE LIfe Sceine Education 2016)
Gender bias in open source: Pull request acceptance of women versus men.(PeerJ PrePrints 2016) *not peer-reviewed
Quality of evidence revealing subtle gender biases in science is in the eye of the beholder (PNAS 2015)
On the gender–science stereotypes held by scientists: explicit accord with gender-ratios, implicit accord with scientific identity (Frontiers in Psychology 2015)
Losing its expected communal value: how stereotype threat undermines women’s identity as research scientists (Social Psychology of Education 2015)
National hiring experiments reveal 2:1 faculty preference for women on STEM tenure track (PNAS 2015)
Expectations of brilliance underlie gender distributions across academic disciplines(Science 2015)
The bachelor’s to Ph.D. STEM pipeline no longer leaks more women than men: A 30-year analysis (Frontiers in Psychology 2015)
National hiring experiments reveal 2:1 faculty preference for women on STEM tenure track (PNAS 2015)
Women have substantial advantage in STEM faculty hiring, except when competing against more-accomplished men (Frontiers in psychology 2015)
The lived experiences of female leaders in two university settings: Perceived supports, barriers, and challenges (Unpublished master’s thesis, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PE 2015)
Survey of Academic Field Experiences (SAFE): Trainees Report Harassment and Assault (PLOS ONE 2014)
Elite Male Faculty in the Life Sciences Employ Fewer Women (PNAS 2014)
Misogynistic Language on Twitter and Sexual Violence (Proc. ACM Web Science Workshop on Computational Approaches to Social Modeling 2014).
Enabling work? Family-friendly policies and academic productivity for men and women scientists (Science and Public Policy 2014)
Career Development of Women in Academia: Traversing the Leaky Pipeline (The Professional Counselor 2014)
Gender Gaps in Achievement and Participation in Multiple Introductory Biology Classrooms (LSE 2014)
Inequality Quantified: Mind the Gender Gap (Nature 2013)
The Role of Gender in Scholarly Publications (PLOS ONE 2013)
The Gender Citation Gap in International Relations (International Organization 2013)
The Matilda Effect in Science Communication: An Experiment on Gender Bias in Publication Quality Perceptions and Collaboration Interest (Science Communication 2013)
Science faculty’s subtle gender biases favor male students (National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2012)
Slaying the Seven-Headed Dragon: The Quest for Gender Change in Academia (Gender Work Organ 2012)
Stereotype threat impairs ability building: Effects on test preparation among women in science and technology (European Journal of Social Psychology 2011)
Do women publish fewer journal articles than men? Sex differences in publication productivity in the social sciences (British Journal of Sociology of Education 2011)
Women in STEM Networks: Who Seeks Advice and Support from Women Scientists? (Scientometrics 2010)
Unmasking the Imposter (Nature 2009)
The “Gender Gap” in Authorship of Academic Medical Literature — A 35-Year Perspective (New England Journal of Medicine 2006)
Gender equity in science: Still an elusive goal (Issues in Science and Technology 1995)
BOOKS AND REPORTS
Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia. Ed. Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Yolanda Flores Niemann, Carmen G. Gonzalez, and Angela P. Harris. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2012.
Strengthening Canada’s Research Capacity: The Gender Dimension (Council of Canadian Academies, 2012)
Little Chance to Advance? An Inquiry into the Presence of Women at Art Academies in Poland (Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation, 2015)
See also:
Gender Bias in Academe – An annotated bibiolography of important recent studies (aggregated and summarized by Danica Savonick and Cathy N. Davidson)
Special topics
Breastfeeding
Traveling to Meetings While Breastfeeding
Breastfeeding in Class
Parental Leave
Parental Leave for 50 of the top Public Universities (.xls from saramitchell.org)
Sexual Harassment and Assault
Committed to Dialogue
Pay Gap
How Can Women Escape the Compensation Negotiation Dilemma? Relational Accounts Are One Answer (Harvard Gender Action Portal)
Gender Gap
Why women leave academia and why universities should be worried (The guardian, May 24, 2012)
Scholarly Publishing’s Gender Gap (The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 12, 2012)
Answering Harvard’s question about my personal life, 52 years later (The Washington Post, June 9, 2013)
Gender bias found in how scholars review scientific studies (Science Daily, April 3, 2013)
Average IQ of students by college major and gender ratio (Randal S. Olson Blog, June 25, 2014)
Gender and teaching evaluations (Slate, December 9, 2014)
Gender Bias in Teaching Evaluations (Inside Higher Ed, 2015)
Double Jeopardy: Gender Bias Against Women of Color in Science (UC Hastings Law, 2014)
Gender Bias in International Relations Syllabi (International Studies Quarterly and Duck of Minerva, 2015)