Workshop Today!

I’m looking forward to a lively discussion at the workshop this afternoon (Apr 21) in Shaffer 100 at 6pm.

Panel Speakers include:

Trina Schroer, Professor, JHU KSAS Dept. Biology
Dorothy Beckett, Professor, University of Maryland Dept. Chemistry
Jie Xiao, Assoc. Professor, JHMI Dept. Biophysics & Biophysical Chemistry
Lori Graham-Brady, Professor, JHU WSE Dept. Civil Engineering
Christine Newman, Asst. Dean for Engineering Education, JHU WSE

After a brief presentation you’ll be able to ask them questions about their experiences. This will hopefully get a conversation going about what you can do to enhance your career success in STEM.

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Your Vote Counts!

Enjoying the gender equity workshops so far? We’ve submitted a proposal to extend these workshops to reach a broader audience at Hopkins, through the new JHU Idea Lab. The proposals that receive the most votes before May 1st will get funded. We need your help! Please vote for more workshops so we can keep the conversation rolling!

You can find our proposal at (https://myidealab.jhu.edu/a/dtd/714804-32786).

Alternatively, you can log into the JHU Idea Lab (http://idealab.jhu.edu/) and read through all of the proposals under the Diversity Innovation Grants section. Ours is called “Achieving Gender Equity at Hopkins“, by Dr. Fleming.

Thanks for all of your support!

Today is Equal Pay Day 2015

Why do equally qualified women still earn less than men?

In the STEM fields, it is outrageous that women candidates for a lab technician position were offered 86 cents on the dollar as compared to their male counterparts. This was published in a seminal PNAS study that we discussed in our first workshop. In this study, identical resumes (excepting gender) were evaluated, and women candidates were still offered a lower starting salary.

Science faculty’s subtle gender biases favor male students (2012) Moss-Racusin, C.A., J.F. Dovidio, V.L. Brescoll, M.J. Graham, & J. Handelsman, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109: 16474-9

Available open access here:

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/09/14/1211286109

Subtle sexism you can’t quite prove

This is an interesting commentary published in the New York magazine (30 March 2015) on the Ellen Pao case on workplace sexism that you can’t quite prove. The opening paragraph describing the cocktail party rings very true for many women. To dismiss this kind of subtle sexism as unimportant is to be naive about how important networking is for workplace advancement.

Subtle sexism results in women getting fewer opportunities at work. It hurts their performance. It results in them receiving worse evaluations. It even opens them up to“aggression” in the workplace.

Link to the full article here:

CORRECTION: Faculty Panel on April 21st!!!

Our apologies, the title of the last post on the faculty panel had the incorrect date listed. The Faculty Panel is on April 21st at 6pm in Shaffer 100.

April 21st, 2015: Faculty Panel on Empowering Women in STEM

This is the final 2014-2015 Workshop in which we will recap gender issues that are affecting women’s scientific careers and will hear from prominent and successful women in science.

To accommodate all attendees, the location for this workshop has been moved to Shaffer Hall, room 100, on April 21st at 6pm.

Panel Speakers include:
Trina Schroer, Professor, JHU KSAS Dept. Biology
Dorothy Beckett, Professor, University of Maryland Dept. Chemistry
Jie Xiao, Assoc. Professor, JHMI Dept. Biophysics & Biophysical Chemistry
Lori Graham-Brady, Professor, JHU WSE Dept. Civil Engineering
Christine Newman, Asst. Dean for Engineering Education, JHU WSE

Topics to be discussed will include confidence differences in women and men, implicit biases held by both men and women, gender-expected behaviors & stereotypes, and bias in hiring & evaluation practices.

Please spread the word about these workshops. Here is a printable flyer for the April 2015 meeting 2015_0421_FacultyPanel_Flyer. 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!