Wednesday 12 January 2011

What works for women: some useful links

This is a work in progress! Feel free to suggest additions

Resources from Virginia Valian, including details of her book, "Why So Slow", a webcast and other resources

 
Athene Donald’s blog

Jenny Rohn's blog

Blog on "becoming a domestic and laboratory goddess"

Demonstrations of schemata (see Valian for context)
 

STRIDE Faculty recruitment workshop readings
STRIDE faculty recruitment, other resources



6 comments:

  1. Check out L'Oreal's website for women in science: http://www.agora.forwomeninscience.com/ Good luck with this project!

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  2. Thanks for linking to my own blog.

    The Athena Forum website http://www.athenaforum.org.uk/ has some useful reports (going back some years), summaries etc and also links to the ASSET 2010 survey results, which are in themselves interesting for comparative purposes

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  3. You may be interested in the gender ratio of ERC starting grants for 2010. These are substantial awards (up to 5 years of funding) for establishing junior investigators - only 26% of them went to women this year (though it appears that fewer women apply for them as well). This is a really striking difference:
    http://rp7.ffg.at/upload/medialibrary/Statistics_StG2010.pdf

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  4. You and your readers might be interested in this (maybe) apocrophal story from an ABC Science Program some time ago - https://www.google.com.au/#sclient=psy-ab&q=ABC+science+%2B+story+of+joan+and+john&oq=ABC+science+%2B+story+of+joan+and+john&gs_l=hp.12...16420.35240.1.37506.32.27.2.0.0.4.2677.9491.4-3j4j0j1j1j1.10.0....0...1c.1.19.psy-ab.z0i5eyN50A0&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.48705608,d.aGc&fp=b4646f1715d65d9d&biw=1280&bih=642

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  5. Hhhm, not sure if that very long link will work. If it's a problem, cut and paste the following into a Google search:

    One of Australia's leading science commentators, Professor Sue Serjeantson, explores the dramatic differences that gender can make in the pursuit of a science career.

    In a study from the early 1980's, three research papers were sent out for review. The papers were identical except for the author's first name - one was by "Joan" Irving, one by "John" Irving, and one just had initials. Both male and female reviewers marked the paper written by "Joan" much lower than the others.

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