Interesting Bits

Posted below is some interesting scholarship on women in the professions. You can also visit the following Facebook page named “Gendering Political Science” for more articles and research on the subject. Happy exploring!

 

Why Minority Women Leave STEM Fields	How to Get Tenure (If You’re a Woman)
Gender Neutral Tenure Clock-Stopping	Electoral competition and Gender
I am not the Decorator	On Male Privilege and Networks
Creating a More Inclusive Academy	Gender Pay Gap (Spring 2016 Edition)
Gender, Teaching Eval., & Prof. Success in P.S.	Diversity Stats – America’s Professors of Color
Gender, Social Networks and Performance	Women Don’t Always Find Power in Numbers
Women lose by saying “Yes to Favors”	Tenure Extension Policy that’s Friendliest to Males
“How to deal with the doorbell problem: beat last year’s average.”	Why Diversity Programs Fail
Diversity in the Economics Profession	Academic Self Silencing in Women
Gendered Self Cites: Men Set Theirs’ High	Gender Bias in IR Education
EvoLang 11 Reveals Gender Bias	Family Plans Don’t Influence Work Choices
No Change in Women’s Volubility Despite Higher Power	Ties that Bind: Matrilineal Societies
2008 Female Economics Tenure Study	Where do Economists Go?
Women’s Ambition and the Marriage Market	The Gender Gap in Publications
Update on the Status of Women in Higher Ed	Female Academics and the “Flexibility Myth”
Penalized for Promoting Diversity	Stress on Women in Caregiving Roles Takes a Toll on Health
Relying on, but not rewarding Women	Gender Gaps Shrinking and Lingering
The Power of Talk	Science Must Clean Up Its Act
Male Interruptions	Political Science Journals Are Biased Against Women
The Organized Mind	Metalevel Mentoring to Battle Gender Bias
Interrupting Female Academics	How Many Jeffs Do You Need?
Double Jeopardy in Planetary Sciences	Feminism and the “Normal” Academic Career
Gendered Interruptions in Engineering Departments	Women Ask Fewer Questions
The Ladies Vanish?

 

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