This popular blog is written by the online persona MommyScientist. While keeping her identity and exact scientific field a mystery, MommyScientist shares her experiences balancing her career and personal life, dealing with difficult male colleagues, teaching, and running her research lab. Posts are more infrequent of late, but the archives …
The NAS press has their study on women in science careers, Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering, available online for your reading pleasure. The report was released in 2006. Here’s a description: The United States economy relies on the productivity, entrepreneurship, and creativity of …
This old Science article sums up some of the results from the National Academy of Sciences’ report Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering. Unfortunately, the report’s results are still pretty accurate four years later.
This report, released in the same year as Beyond Bias and Barriers…, focuses specifically on recruitment of female students and faculty, retention of current female students, and advancement of current female faculty in STEM fields. From the NAS description: Although more women than men participate in higher education in the …
This short article in GenomeWeb refers to an interesting article on a New York Times blog. The most pertinent finding for genome scientists is that women Ph.D.’s who take time off to have children end up making proportionally less money than their M.D. mother peers. If you follow the link …