Women in STEM

Over the last 30 years, the number of women earning bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees in math and science has increased significantly. This success has been largely due to the work of educational institutions, foundations, professional networks and research and advocacy organizations. Yet despite these efforts, a huge gap still exists between the numbers of women and men pursuing advanced studies and careers in science – especially in physics, chemistry, engineering, computer science and technology. Schools, colleges, the technology sector and businesses, as well as other sectors, need to intensify efforts to recruit and retain talented women in STEM fields. Advancement for women not only diversifies the workforce, but also provides gender balance in setting research goals, developing new product lines and enhancing innovative and strategic decision-making.

The Madame Curie Complex

Submitted by jmumbey on Tue, 03/16/2010 - 2:51pm

Historian Julie Des Jardins talks about her upcoming book, The Madame Curie Complex. In this book, she discusses the hidden history of women in science.

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The Feminist Press CUNY

Women Making Gains on Faculty at Harvard

Teaser:

Universitywide, slightly more than a quarter of Harvard faculty members are women, an all-time high, with the senior faculty accounting for most of the increase. Women also lead the engineering school, the law school, the education school, Harvard College and the Radcliffe Institute. And while Harvard extended 4 of its 32 tenure offers to women in the year before Dr. Summers’s speech, last year, tenure offers went to 16 women and 25 men.

Editorial:

Given the overlap between the biological clock and the tenure clock, helping more women into senior academic positions is especially difficult at Harvard, where tenure is unusually slow, coming only with promotion to full professor. Also, Harvard has long been known for recruiting outsiders to senior positions, rather than promoting junior faculty members.

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New York Times

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/13/education/13harvard.html

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March 12, 2010

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Risk and Opportunity for Women in 21st Century

Teaser:

The quiet revolution that has seen women across the developed world catch up with men in the work force and in education has also touched science, that most stubbornly male bastion.

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New York Times

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/06/world/europe/06iht-ffscience.html?pagewanted=1

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March 5, 2010

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Degrees Female Undergraduates Want

Teaser:

Despite more women moving into business degrees, there is a continuing gender imbalance in the majority of undergraduate college majors.

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Forbes.com

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http://www.forbes.com/2010/03/02/top-10-college-majors-women-forbes-woman-leadership-education.html

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March 2, 2010

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Best-Paying Jobs That Women Aren't In

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Women comprise just under half of the U.S. economy and have lost fewer jobs than men in this recession, putting them in position to become the majority of the nation's workers. Yet women remain concentrated in low-paying sectors of the workforce.

Source:

Forbes.com

URL:

http://www.forbes.com/2010/02/17/best-paying-jobs-women-forbes-woman-leadership-career.html

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February 17, 2010

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Venture capital remains a mostly male world, but that may be changing

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Crain's Detroit Business

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http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20070423/SUB/70420006/-1#

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April 23, 2007

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Conversation with Debra Facktor Lepore: Challenges for Women in Science, Engineering, and Technology

Submitted by jmumbey on Thu, 02/25/2010 - 1:43pm

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Center for Entrepreneurial Women’s Leadership

Conversation with Debra Facktor Lepore: Challenges for women in Science, Engineering, and Technology.

Diversity Lower Among Silicon Valley’s Top 10 Companies

Teaser:

Silicon Valley’s Top 10 companies employed lower percentages of women, African-Americans and Hispanics in 2005 than in 1999.

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New York Times

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/19/us/19sfpulse02.html

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February 18, 2010

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WOMEN IN CHEMISTRY SYMPOSIUM

Submitted by jmumbey on Mon, 02/22/2010 - 1:59pm

Date/Time:

03/16/2010

WOMEN IN CHEMISTRY SYMPOSIUM

All WST Center Events are co-sponsored with ADVANCE, free, and open to the public. Please RSVP to Irina Nikiforova if you are interested in attending.

The Ever Increasing Majority of Women Graduates

Submitted by afiorino on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 1:05pm

According to a recent OECD report, Higher Education to 2030, women will become an even larger majority of the graduate talent pool in only one decade. Companies are already having to ensure that they don’t swing the gender balance too far in favor of women. However, it must be noted that women primarily study the social sciences, while men study engineering.

URL:

http://www.20-first.com/778-0-trend-of-women-as-the-majority-of-talented-will-continue.html

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