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Section contents:
Title IX
General issues
Leaky pipeline
PhDs & postdocs
Pre-college
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Title IX
General education issues This section addresses education from the perspective of students and issues related to teaching.
Other pages on this website address issues from further up the academic
career ladder:
- What's happened to academic science? See the Reports page
for studies and government reports about academic science and its problems.
- See the faculty page for links related to faculty careers
- We have a whole page on the chilly climate in academe;
check out the reports page for specific statistics and government reports on this subject too.
- Gender issues
in higher education
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Womens Equity online resource
center for issues in education equity, including the
newsroup EdEquity
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Tapping the Talent: Encouraging more
women into science, engineering and technology.
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Study projects on women in science from Brown University
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Women in science: one woman's thoughts and advice
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A college guide
for women interested in the sciences: an essay project
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The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU) has a
Program on the status and education of women
which includes discussion of Women's
leadership: changing concepts of power and an initiative on
Women and Scientific Literacy.
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Findings from the Condition of Education 1997:
Women in Mathematics and Science. Interesting report from the National Center for Education
Statistics.
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Where are our priorities?, an essay
about science funding, education, and careers.
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Interviews with 13 women in science, and
other resources on women in science from the Field Museum in Chicago
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Achieving gender equity in the classroom
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From the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and
Science Education (ENC): an enormous web site with lots of information, including
The Equity Guide,
with links to on line reports including
Gender Bias in Mathematics,
Science and Technology: a report card. This site is very worth exploring
-- check out their
site map for an overview, and
don't forget to click on the links in their top menu bar.
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The Gender Imbalance in Physics Education, while
not specifically about biology, discusses issues that are common to study of all the sciences. And
after all, biologists also study chemistry and physics.
Strategies to get women into physical sciences
- Project Kaleidoscope
- New "professional"
Master's degrees in science, an option for the non-academic track, because
"doctoral training isn't what many students really want and
doesn't prepare them for the jobs they eventually take."
The leaky pipeline (also see Chilly climate)
PhD and postdoctoral study. Also see mentoring section; career planning page; NAS/NSF reports; the chilly climate in academe; and balancing family and career
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