The Economix blog at The New York Times summarizes a study on science’s “leaky pipeline”. Unsurprisingly, the study found that women are more likely to leave science due to the pressures of family life. Here are some of the most disturbing statistics from the summary: married women with young children …
This enlightening article at The Washington Post summarizes recent research showing that math anxiety in elementary school teachers has a profound impact on their students. Disturbingly, by the end of only one school year, “girls taught by a teacher with high math anxiety started to score lower than boys in …
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 …
The New York Times presents a partial transcript of a rountable discussion on women in science in which our own Mary-Claire King participated, along with three other prominent female scientists from various disciplines. Here’s my favorite MC quote, on promoting other female scientists: …women can help each other out a …
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 …
