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Women in science

a smattering of articles and blog posts of interest

Leadership

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From The Conversation
  • Female leaders are missing in academia
From Athene Donald
  • Warts and all (senior women need to be encouraged “to talk authentically and frankly, warts and all”)
From The Huffington Post
  • Exclamation marks are feminist as f**k -- Women who use the punctuation mark challenge the sexist notion that "female" qualities are antithetical to good leadership.
From The Cooper Review (Funny because it's true)
  • 9 non-threatening leadership strategies for women
From Nature Magazine
  • How female scientists can confront gender bias in the workplace
From the Chronicle of Higher Education
  • How to be a generous professor in precarious times 
From the New York Times
  • Women, own your 'Dr.' titles​
From The Guardian
  • Is the absent-minded genius just a very clever jerk?
From The Atlantic
  • How Women Mentors Make a Difference in Engineering

Feedback

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From the New York Times
  • Learning to love criticism
From Inside Higher Ed
  • Encouraging female faculty to publish research

Imposter syndrome and self confidence

From Tenure, She Wrote
  • Finding structure & productivity despite stress & self-doubt
From The Atlantic
  • The confidence gap
From Dynamic Ecology
  • Imposter syndrome and cognitive distortions
From Sarah Cooper at The Medium
  • Do you take yourself seriously?
By Caitlin Hudon
  • Imposter syndrome in data science
From Rapid Ecology
  • The irony of imposter syndrome
From Eco-evo evo-eco
  • I have the Imposter Syndrome.
From The New York Times
  • Dealing With Impostor Syndrome When You’re Treated as an Impostor
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Gender bias and discrimination

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From Slate
  • Old Boys' Lab - Where are the women in American's greatest scientific laboratories?
From Slate
  • Best way for professors to get good student evaluations?  Be male.
From the New York Times
  • Is the professor bossy or brilliant?  Much depends on gender.
  • Female scientists turn to data to fight lack of representation on panels
  • The Universal Phenomenon of Men Interrupting Women
From PLoS One
  • Not "pulling up the ladder": women who organize conference symposia provide greater opportunities for women to speak at conservation conferences
From Foreign Policy
  • How to get tenure (if you're a woman)
From McSweeney's
  • Reasons you were not promoted that are totally unrelated to gender
From The Guardian
  • Why women in science are annoyed at Rosetta mission scientist's clothing
From The Chronicle of Higher Education
  • The awakening: women and power in the academy
From Harper's Bazaar
  • Women aren't nags--we're just fed up
From Anne Krook
  • Unconscious bias
From Inside Higher Ed
  • Timekeeping as Feminist Pedagogy
From Broadly
  • 100 Easy Ways to Make Women's Lives More Bearable
From Science Magazine
  • What does a scientist look like? Children are drawing women more than ever before
From Brookings
  • The gender pay gap: to equality and beyond
From Bloomberg
  • Women Get Lower Salary Offers When They Won’t Say What They’re Making
From Diana O'Brien
  • Advice for Women in Political Science from Women in Political Science
From Science Magazine
  • Sexual harassment isn’t just about sex: Groundbreaking report details persistent hostility female scientists face
​From Behance
  • 7 ways to combat 'manterrupting'
From Huffington Post
  • What Happened When A Man Signed Work Emails Using A Female Name For 2 Weeks
From Dynamic Ecology
  • Guest post: The day I broke some twitter feeds: insights into sexism in academia, Part 1
  • Guest post: The day I broke some twitter feeds: insights into sexism in academia, Part 2
From Harvard Business Review
  • A Study Used Sensors to Show That Men and Women Are Treated Differently at Work
From Times Higher Ed
  • Women ‘more likely to be pressured to add authors’ to papers

Sexual harassment, sexual assualt

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From the New York Times by Hope Jahren
  • Science's sexual assualt problem
​From Bullhead Mtn Blog
  • The Story of the Stories - Sexual Harassment in the Conservation Field
From Small Pond Science
  • When the trash gets passed
From Scientific American
  • Harassers aren't brilliant jerks, they're bad scientists -- and they cost all of us
From Rapid Ecology
  • Academia's accountability program
From Science Friday
  • How sexual harassment and bias undermine women's access to scientific careers
From Madison Pauly at Mother Jones
  • She Was a Rising Star at a Major University. Then a Lecherous Professor Made Her Life Hell.

How men can be allies to women

From Tenure She Wrote
  • Don't be that dude: handy tips for the male academic
From Dynamic Ecology
  • If there were no barriers to men’s participation, we would all be doing it: a unique perspective on how to be a male ally to women in ecology
From Anne Krook
  • ​How men can help
From Small Pond Science
  • Actions required of men to advance gender equity in academia
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Kids

From Science
  • Family-friendly science
From The Chronicle of Higher Education
  • When your graduate students have babies
  • The Miscarriage Penalty
From Medium
  • Kids don't damage women's careers -- men do
From Science Magazine
  • Are conferences providing enough child care support? We decided to find out.
From Things that change the way I think
  • Balance: are you always this enthusiastic?
From Jenn Rose via Romper
  • This mom's thread on going back to work after giving birth is eye-opening
From Nature Magazine
  • A guide to juggling fieldwork and pregnancy.  It can be tricky to plan and carry on fieldwork when you’re pregnant, but there are ways to smooth the path.
From Vox
  • What no one tells new moms about what childbirth can do to their bodies​
​​From The Fisheries Blog
  • Science moms: navigating work and life
From Scientific American
  • The Special Challenges of Being Both a Scientist and a Mom
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