Scientific Articles
Effects on women's career
- Nearly half of US female scientists leave full-time science after first child, Nature, 19 February 2019.
- Raising doubt in letters of recommendation for academia: gender differences and their impact, Journal of Business and Psychology, April 26, 2018.
- Student Evaluations of Teaching (Mostly) Do Not Measure Teaching Effectiveness Anne Boring, Kellie Ottoboni, Philip B. Stark, ScienceOpen, January 2016.
- Teaching load could put female scientists at career disadvantage , Elizabeth Gibney, Nature Trend Watch 2017
- How stereotypes impair women’s careers in science, E. Reuben, P. Sapienza & L. Zingales, PNAS 111(12), March 25, 2014.
- Women Rising: The Unseen Barriers, H. Ibarra, R.J. Ely & D. Kolb, Harvard Business Review, September 2013.
- Female grant applicants are equally successful when peer reviewers assess the science, but not when they assess the scientist, Holly Witteman, Michael Hendricks, Sharon Straus, & Cara Tannenbaum
- Gender and letters of recommendation for academia: Agentic and communal differences. Madera, Juan M.; Hebl, Michelle R.; Martin, Randi C., Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol 94(6), Nov 2009, 1591-1599.
- Student evaluations of teaching are not only unreliable, they are significantly biased against female instructors, Anne Boring, Kellie Ottoboni and Philip B. Stark. Impact blog, London School of Economics and Political Science.
- A Linguistic Comparison of Letters of Recommendation for Male and Female Chemistry and Biochemistry Job Applicants. Schmader T, Whitehead J, Wysocki VH. Sex Roles. 2007;57(7-8):509-514.
Implicit bias
- Cognitive Bias Codex - all cognitive biases in one overview John Manoogian, 2016.
- The 5 Biases Pushing Women Out of STEM J.C. Williams, Harvard Business Review, March 2015
- Women's Representation in Science Predicts National Gender-Science Stereotypes: Evidence From 66 Nations. Miller, D. I., Eagly, A. H., & Linn, M. C. Journal of Educational Psychology. Journal of Educational Psychology 2015, Vol. 107, No. 3, 631– 644
- Over 20 important studies aggregated and summarized by Danica Savonick and Cathy Davidson Gender Bias in Academia: An Annotated Bibliography of Important Recent Studies
- Women’s Representation in Science Predicts National Gender-ScienceStereotypes: Evidence From 66 Nations, David I. Miller, Alice H. Eagly, Marcia C. Linn, Journal of Educational Psychology 2015, Vol. 107, No. 3, 631– 644
- Expectations of brilliance underlie gender distributions across academic disciplines, S. Leslie, A. Cimpian, M. Meyer, E. Freeland, Science 16, January 2015: Vol. 347 no. 6219 pp. 262-265.
- What’s in a Name: Exposing Gender Bias in Student Ratings of Teaching, L. MacNell, A. Driscoll & A.N. Hunt. Innov High Educ, Springer 2014.
- Science faculty’s subtle gender biases favor male students, C.A. Moss-Racusin, J.F. Dovidio, V.L. Brescoll, M.J. Graham & J. Handelsman, PNAS 109(41), October 9, 2012.
Science policy
- Why Diversity Programs Fail. Frank Dobbin & Alexandra Kalev. Harvard Business Review, July-August 2016.
- Seven Actionable Strategies for Advancing Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine, K.A. Smith et al, Cell Stem Cell, 16(3), p221–224, 5 March 2015
- The Presence of Female Conveners Correlates with a Higher Proportion of Female Speakers at Scientific Symposia, A. Casadevall & J. Handelsman, mBio 6(1), January/February 2015.
- Scientific Diversity Interventions, C.A. Moss-Racusin, J. van der Toorn, J.F. Dovidio, V.L. Brescoll, M.J. Graham, J. Handelsman, Science 343(6171), pp. 615-616, 7 February 2014.
- The Origins and Effects of Corporate Diversity Programs, F. Dobbin & A. Kalev, Oxford Handbook of Diversity and Work, pp. 253-281, Quinetta Roberson, ed., New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Affirmative Action Policies Promote Women and Do Not Harm Efficiency in the Laboratory, L. Balafoutas & M. Sutter, Science 335, February 3, 2012.
- 6 Steps to gender equality and more essays about how every university can get more women to the top and why they should, C. Rice, 2011.
- Best practices or best guesses? Assessing the efficacy of corporate affirmative action and diversity policies, A. Kalev, F. Dobbin & E. Kelly, American sociological review 71(4), 589-617, 2006.
Commentaries
- Gender Diversity in Computing: are we making any progress? Valerie Barr. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 60 No. 4, Page 5, April 2017. DOI 10.1145/3056417
- Why so many incompetent men become leaders, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Harvard business review, August 22, 2013.
- Ready, steady, compete, M.C. Villeval, Science 335 (3), 544-545, Februari 3, 2012.
- Does gender matter?, B. Barres, Nature (442), 2006.
Other
- The gender gap in science: How long until women are equally represented? PLOS Biology, April 19, 2018.
- Computer Science: Too Young to Fall into the Gender Gap. Anne-Marie Kermarrec, IEEE Internet Computing 18(3): 4-6 (2014)
- Hacking Tech’s Diversity Problem, J.C. Williams, Harvard Business Review, October 2014
- Do employers value international study and internships? A comparative analysis of 31 countries Christof van Mol, 2017
- Political diversity will improve social psychological science. Duarte, J. L., Crawford, J. T., Stern, C., Haidt, J., Jussim, L., & Tetlock, P. E. (2015). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 38, 1-13.
- The Data on Diversity, B. Nelson, Communications of the ACM, 57(11), November 2014.
- W.M. Williams and S.J. Ceci, National hiring experiments reveal 2:1 faculty preference for women on STEM tenure track, PNAS, 2015. (but see Fyi fierce debat on methodology and outcome see Finally, someone smarter than me aka @OtherSociology explains why the Williams/Ceci study made my blood boil http://t.co/gsrJ5i0BuR (https://twitter.com/reneehlozek/status/588548753511952384?s=03)
