articles, books, etc. of interest to WiGS and its mission
The Association for Women in Science presents a series of charts and a summary of relevant data on the continuing and disturbing trend of electing a pathetic number of female scientists to the National Academy of Sciences. Particularly infuriating is their description of the NAS response in 2001 to complaints …
An interesting story at Nature proposes that the lack of female voices in the public media, particularly as representatives of science, is limiting which perspectives are visible and accessible to the public. The author suggests that female scientists first start by speaking up more at seminars and conferences. We have …
While female faculty earn service and teaching awards in proportion to their representation in science, they are still severely underrepresented in the presentation of scholarly awards. This piece at Nature discusses some of the contributing factors to this phenomenon. If you are involved in a selection committee, you can take …
A few years ago, Ben Barres wrote this compelling piece for Nature which confronts the stereotype that women do not succeed in science because of a lack of innate ability. As a female-to-male transgendered person, Barres has a very unique perspective on the situation. Barres wrote the article in direct …
This article at the Chronicle for Higher Education gives some really good grant-writing advice … by giving advice for how to fail. Just take the opposite of all of this advice, and you’ll have a good grant to turn in .
