This is the outline of readings for the Women in Science graduate seminar that I offered Spring 2015 (each bold heading is a new week). While the focus was women in academia, we touched on women in industry and medicine, GLBT issues and racial diversity as well. I claimed no particular expertise other than personal experience, and used this seminar to educate myself and interested students so that we can help change the system from within.
Introductions
who we are
our interest in this seminar
ground rules for discussions
Talking about bias can backfire – don’t let it. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/opinion/sunday/adam-grant-and-sheryl-sandberg-on-discrimination-at-work.html
Speaking while female: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/opinion/sunday/speaking-while-female.html?_r=0
Why diversity matters
Campbell et al. 2013 – benefits of gender heterogeneity
Stout et al. 2011 - seeing people like yourself increases confidence
Competence
Nosek et al. 2009 – perceptions predict performance
Miyaki et al. 2010 – affirming values increases performance
skim initial pages of Ceci et al. 2014
Bias and discrimination
dynamic ecology (https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2013/11/06/implicit-biases-evaluating-job-candidates/ on implicit bias)
Ruben et al. 2014
Ross-Racusin et al. 2012
Evaluate your own biases. https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/education.html
Privilege
The lowest difficulty setting (http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/straight-white-male-the-lowest-difficulty-setting-there-is/)
Unpacking the invisible knapsack http://amptoons.com/blog/files/mcintosh.html
Harassment and assault
Clancy et al. 2014
Everyday sexism (https://tenureshewrote.wordpress.com/2013/11/14/guest-post-what-happens-when-trivial-sexism-is-ignored/#more-592)
Trust your gut (https://tenureshewrote.wordpress.com/2014/06/10/do-i-trust-my-gut/#more-1279)
Be an ally
Don’t be that Dude (https://tenureshewrote.wordpress.com/2013/09/26/dont-be-that-dude-handy-tips-for-the-male-academic/)
Girls just don’t want to have fun (http://proflikesubstance.scientopia.org/2014/06/19/girls-just-dont-wanna-have-fun-at-conferences/)
Rudman et al. 2012 - biases against feminist men
The leaky pipeline, babies matter
Mason and Goulden 2002
Mason and Goulden 2004
Goulden et al. 2011
Work-life balance, thinking broadly about careers, and payscales
The myth of the 80 hour work-week - @duffyma
The happy PhD zone - work life balance
Always rushing, never celebrating - @sciwo
Changing career goals - drbotanista
And wow, so so many others emailed to the class.
More bias
letters of recommendation (Schmader et al. 2007, Trix and Pesenka 2010, )
Milkman et al. 2014
bias calculator: http://www.tomforth.co.uk/genderbias/
Snyder: http://fortune.com/2014/08/26/performance-review-gender-bias/
Publication and grants
Wenneras and Wold 1997, Budden et al. 2008 - peer review
Cho et al. 2014
but: Kaatz et al. 2014
Sugimoto 2013
Perspectives from other professions
Adamo 2013, Moss_Racusin et al. 2013 - timing of the competitive period MD vs. academia
Wolfinger et al. 2010 - Comparisons across professions
Is it all overblown?
NY times article
Ceci et al. 2014 (background)
Williams and Ceci 2015 PNAS
Karen Jame's storify and excellent listing of blogs
redink version of NY times article
Response in the Chronicle of Higher Ed. http://chronicle.com/article/The-Myth-That-Academic-Science/231413/
Academic birthrate
Martinson 2011
Kulis et al. 2002
McMillan Cottom: beware blanket 'don't go to gradshool' statements, issue for both race and gender
Where to go from here?
Introductions
who we are
our interest in this seminar
ground rules for discussions
Talking about bias can backfire – don’t let it. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/opinion/sunday/adam-grant-and-sheryl-sandberg-on-discrimination-at-work.html
Speaking while female: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/opinion/sunday/speaking-while-female.html?_r=0
Why diversity matters
Campbell et al. 2013 – benefits of gender heterogeneity
Stout et al. 2011 - seeing people like yourself increases confidence
Competence
Nosek et al. 2009 – perceptions predict performance
Miyaki et al. 2010 – affirming values increases performance
skim initial pages of Ceci et al. 2014
Bias and discrimination
dynamic ecology (https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2013/11/06/implicit-biases-evaluating-job-candidates/ on implicit bias)
Ruben et al. 2014
Ross-Racusin et al. 2012
Evaluate your own biases. https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/education.html
Privilege
The lowest difficulty setting (http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/straight-white-male-the-lowest-difficulty-setting-there-is/)
Unpacking the invisible knapsack http://amptoons.com/blog/files/mcintosh.html
Harassment and assault
Clancy et al. 2014
Everyday sexism (https://tenureshewrote.wordpress.com/2013/11/14/guest-post-what-happens-when-trivial-sexism-is-ignored/#more-592)
Trust your gut (https://tenureshewrote.wordpress.com/2014/06/10/do-i-trust-my-gut/#more-1279)
Be an ally
Don’t be that Dude (https://tenureshewrote.wordpress.com/2013/09/26/dont-be-that-dude-handy-tips-for-the-male-academic/)
Girls just don’t want to have fun (http://proflikesubstance.scientopia.org/2014/06/19/girls-just-dont-wanna-have-fun-at-conferences/)
Rudman et al. 2012 - biases against feminist men
The leaky pipeline, babies matter
Mason and Goulden 2002
Mason and Goulden 2004
Goulden et al. 2011
Work-life balance, thinking broadly about careers, and payscales
The myth of the 80 hour work-week - @duffyma
The happy PhD zone - work life balance
Always rushing, never celebrating - @sciwo
Changing career goals - drbotanista
And wow, so so many others emailed to the class.
More bias
letters of recommendation (Schmader et al. 2007, Trix and Pesenka 2010, )
Milkman et al. 2014
bias calculator: http://www.tomforth.co.uk/genderbias/
Snyder: http://fortune.com/2014/08/26/performance-review-gender-bias/
Publication and grants
Wenneras and Wold 1997, Budden et al. 2008 - peer review
Cho et al. 2014
but: Kaatz et al. 2014
Sugimoto 2013
Perspectives from other professions
Adamo 2013, Moss_Racusin et al. 2013 - timing of the competitive period MD vs. academia
Wolfinger et al. 2010 - Comparisons across professions
Is it all overblown?
NY times article
Ceci et al. 2014 (background)
Williams and Ceci 2015 PNAS
Karen Jame's storify and excellent listing of blogs
redink version of NY times article
Response in the Chronicle of Higher Ed. http://chronicle.com/article/The-Myth-That-Academic-Science/231413/
Academic birthrate
Martinson 2011
Kulis et al. 2002
McMillan Cottom: beware blanket 'don't go to gradshool' statements, issue for both race and gender
Where to go from here?
