Tag archive for ‘support’
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unique challenges face women of color in STEM
The Harvard Educational Review presents an entire issue addressing the unique challenges faced by scientists at the intersection of race and gender inequality. The symposium issue, Unraveling the Double Bind: Women of Color in STEM, celebrates the 35th anniversary of a momentous meeting of 30 minority female scientists. The issue also reflects on the progress [...]
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Get it in writing
Those of you who attended Bob Waterston’s talk on negotiating salaries and start-up packages already know that the most important part of negotiating an offer is to get it in writing. This is a bit of advice that University of Texas San Antonio’s Kelly Suter must wish that she had followed. Dr. Suter worked hard [...]
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Justice for pregnant student
In a recent scandal, a UC Davis veterinary school professor distributed a poll to his students asking them to vote on whether he would make accommodations for a student missing part of his class to give birth. The situation is described in more detail in this article in Inside Higher Ed. Unlike many similar outrageous [...]
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Maximizing female intellectual contribution
Discover magazine, AAAS, and L’Oreal recently convened a panel “to explore ways to help the research community—and the nation—make the most of its female intellectual firepower”. The panel included several interesting female personalities, but the most interesting to genome scientists was Joan Steitz. Joan Steitz was James Watson’s first female graduate student and made important [...]
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UW Career Center
The UW Career Center website is chock-full of helpful resources for your career. They sponsor many workshops and events on interviewing skills, job applications, networking, and academic careers. Some pertinent events in the upcoming months are a talk on negotiations for academic job offers and a values identification workshop aimed specifically at grad students.
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CareerWISE supports women in Ph.D. programs
Arizona State University recently launched CareerWISE, a website aimed at increasing retention of women in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) Ph.D. programs. There are lots of interesting features on the website, but they share the goal of helping women to cope with difficult situations. There are videos capturing the stories of successful women scientists, [...]