Workshops Featured on NSF Blog!

These workshops were featured on the NSF blog this week! See the article here:

https://nsfmcb.wordpress.com/2015/03/23/working-towards-gender-equity-in-science/

Five Biases Pushing Women out of STEM

According to the Harvard Business Review, these are:

(1) Prove-It-Again; (2) The Tight Rope; (3) The Maternal Wall; (4) Tug of War; and (5) Isolationism.

We’ve discussed the origins of some of these in our workshops.

Read the full article here:

https://hbr.org/2015/03/the-5-biases-pushing-women-out-of-stem

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We will discuss bias in letters of recommendation. Details here:

https://genderequityinscience.wordpress.com/2015/03/03/gender-bias-in-letters-of-recommendation/

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ASBMB Today Article

The March 2015 issue of ASBMB Today has an article on “Advocating for equity in STEM”. This reviewed an event at UC Berkeley last fall on expanding the potential for women in the STEM fields.

Read the article here:

http://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/201503/Minorities/Synberc/

 

Gender Bias in Letters of Recommendation

Gender Bias in Letters of Recommendation

This is the second Spring 2015 workshop on Achieving Gender Equity in Science. The spring schedule can be found here.

In this meeting we will discuss gender bias in the a study of letters of recommendation. We will discuss the following paper (linked in the title):

Gender and Letters of Recommendation for Academia: Agentic and Communal Differences (2009) Madera JM, Hebl MR and RC Martin, Journal of Applied Psychology 94: 1591-1599.

Take a few minutes to look it over before the workshop so you’ll be prepared to participate in the discussion.

We will meet in Jenkins 107 at 6pm. Pizza and beverages will be served. If you think you will attend, RSVP Karen so she can order enough pizza. It would be a bummer if we ran out of pizza!

Please spread the word about these workshops. A flyer for posting is here: 2015_0324_AchievingGenderEquityFlyer.

The Spring 2015 schedule can be found here. Mark your calendars now for the STEM faculty panel:

Tuesday Apr 21: Faculty Panel on Women in STEM