WISE STEM Resources for Women

• Committee on Institutional Cooperation WISE Panel (CIC): Members of the WISE are "self-selected" and aim to share best practices intended to assist each individual WISE program on CIC university campuses achieve their goals of increasing the number of women pursuing STEM degrees, and supporting women in the STEM faculty ranks.
• Engineering Blog: This blog is about finding, educating, inspiring and recruiting students in engineering or other technical fields.
• Engineer Your Life web portal: A guide to engineering for high school girls, counselors and parents, and engineers.
• FairerScience: website with multiply resources regarding gender and science
• National Girls Collaborative Projects: The NGCP is designed to reach girl-serving STEM organizations across the United States and Puerto Rico.
• Women Are Scientists is a series of FREE video presentations that showcases successful female scientists in their respective specialties, and informs students about educational requirements, rewards, and challenges of careers in the biomedical sciences.
• WomenTech Portal: The WomenTech Portal connects educators with research-based articles on recruiting and retaining women in technology.
• Talking Points resource: A collaboration of the National Center for Women & IT K-12 Alliance and social scientists. Based on research about what parents care about for their children, their possible misconceptions about IT careers, their priorities for daughters' happiness as adults; and research on girls: their career intentions at both middle and high school ages and wisdom about what they need to do now to prepare for successful admission to a relevant program at the undergraduate level (for both middle and high schoolers).

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Articles and Handbooks:

2008

• Bias Literacy: A Review of concepts in research on discrimination offers a quick digest of the evidence for discrimination, especially with reference to women in science and engineering.
• Case Study on Gender Bias at the Postdoc Level: A recent statistical study of a particle physics experiment group explores how gender bias affects the career advancements of women in physics at the postdoc level.
• Changing the Conversation: The National Academy of Engineering has conducted a major study utilizing both qualitative and quantitative methods to address the messages we portray to pre-college students about engineering. You can read sections of the report in PDF form. You can also find a PowerPoint presentation summarizing the findings from a presentation by one of the report’s committee members at the WEPAN National Conference this past June.
• Diversity Isn’t Rocket Science, Is It?
• Dual-Career Academic Couples: What Universities Need to Know: The number one reason women turn down jobs in academe is the lack of a job offer for their partners. These and other findings are laid out in the newest study of dual-career hiring in academic research institutions by the Institute of Gender Reach at Stanford University. Included in the report are a number of policy recommendations such as developing dual-career couple hiring protocols.
• Finally Equal Footing for Women in Social Science Careers?: The Center for Research in Graduate Education released new findings regarding gender equality in careers of social science doctorates.
• Gender Inequity in 'Whoville' by Peter Sagal
• Girls' and boys' math performance now equal
• Keys to Hiring Women in Science
• Men Write Code from Mars, Women Write More Helpful Code from Venus -Rebecca Buckman
• Students’ Perceptions of the Value and Need for Mentors As They Progress Through Academic Studies in Engineering and Science: MentorNet study finds that women and minorities are not getting mentoring in engineering and science.
• Students Who Use 'Clickers' Score Better On Physics Tests: In addition, using clickers equalized the difference usually seen between male and female students in physics. Article in Science Daily.
• Women, Men and Service: Article on Unfinished Agendas: New and Continuing Gender Challenges in Higher Education” published by Johns Hopkins University Press

2007

• Scientific American - Sex, Math and Scientific Achievement
• A National Analysis of Diversity in Science and Engineering Faculties at Research Universities
• Enrollment Surge for Women

2004

• Tenure Denied: Cases of Sex Discrimination in Academia (2004) is a qualitative research report based on the Legal Advocacy Fund’s archive of sex discrimination cases. Drawing on 19 cases, the report describes the difficulty of pinpointing and proving sex discrimination in the tenure promotion process.

2003

• Girls in the System: A Handbook of Science,Mathematics, and Engineering Activities for 8-12 Year Olds: 270 pp electronic publication offers materials for activities with girls in grades 4-8 with special focus on low income and minority girls plus:
  • approaches to planning summer camps and after-school programs,
  • identification of Girl Scout badges that can be earned by doing the activities
  • links to other resources etc.

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