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Elizabeth Creamer's talk on the topic of Dual Career Couples (pdf)

Several web based mentoring resources exist for women in science and academia.
MentorNet provides mentor-mentee matching on a one to one basis based on your interests and career path. http://www.mentornet.net/

  The Earth Science Womens Network also provides an email list-serve and forum for women in the earth sciences field, to discuss women's issues, jobs, funding opportunities etc. http://www.sage.wisc.edu/eswn/

Extensive bibliography: http://www.crlt.umich.edu/publinks/facment_group.html

Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research:

The Nelson Diversity Survey, Nelson, D.J.: Norman, OK, 2002;

Chronicle of Higher Education article on women, 12/03/2004:

The 2004 National Science Foundation report on Women, Minorities and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering, is available at: http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/wmpd

 The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report in July 2004 regarding federal agency compliance with Title IX. Congress asked the GAO to assess compliance with Title IX in regards to mathematics, engineering, and science. This report can be found at: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d04639.pdf

The National Science Foundation is sponsoring a National Research Council study on Gender Differences in Careers of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Faculty. The Council’s work is underway, so a final report is not available, but more on this effort can be found at: http://www.nationalacademies.org/gateway/pga/2853.html

National Analysis of Diversity in Science and Engineering Faculties in Research Universities, but further information on this report, including its data and data sources, can be found at: The Nelson Diversity Survey, Nelson, D.J.: Norman, OK, 2002; http://cheminfo.chem.ou.edu/faculty/djn/diversity/top50.html.

Some relevant studies on gender bias include:

          * Exploring the color of glass: letters of recommendation for female and male medical faculty, 2003. F. Trix and C. Psenka, Discourse and Society, 14, 191-220.

          * Nepotism and sexism in peer-review, 1997. C. Wennerås and A. Wold, Nature, 387, 341-343.

          * Mysterious Disappearance of Female Investigators, 2005. D. Watson, A. C. Anderson and J. Hjorth, Nature, 436, 174.

            Academe Online has a whole issue (November/December 2004) on balancing faculty careers and family work:

            http://www.aaup.org/publications/Academe/2004/04nd/04ndtoc.htm

A February 12, 2005 Boston Globe article, Women and science: the real issue, by John Hennessey, Susan Hockfield and Shirley Tilghman was written in response to the well-publicized comments of Laurence Summers, President of Harvard University, last winter. The Boston Globe article can be found here.

You can listen to an audiotape (~ 10 minutes) on Women in Science from the 9/26/2005 edition of Science Friday on National Public Radio: http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2005/Aug/hour2_082605.html

A popular tradebook on the subject of women and careers is: Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women, by Virginia Valian, MIT Press, 1998.

Professional societies are also addressing issues affecting retention and recruitment of women and minorities into oceanography. The American Meteorological Society has held events geared for women at their annual meeting for the past three years. For more information and resources, see http://www.amsbwm.org/