Academia

CSWP Responds to Harvard University President’s Comments
Letter sent by CSWP to the New York Times in response to statements made by Lawrence Summers, President of Harvard University.

What Works? Increasing the Participation of Women in Undergraduate Physics
B. Whitten, et al. Results of site visits to nine undergraduate physics departments with high participation of women (2003).

Pasadena Recommendations from the AAS Committee on the Status of Women
These recommendations can help your department start a discussion of ways to promote equity in hiring and promotion.

Do Babies Matter?

• "Do Babies Matter, Part I?"    Mary Ann Mason and Marc Goulden, University of California Berkeley.
• "Do Babies Matter in Science?"    Mary Ann Mason, University of California Berkeley.
• "How Babies Alter Careers for Academics," Robin Wilson, Chronicle of Higher Education, December 5, 2003.

Harvard Magazine. March-April 2002. Women and minorities continue to be underrepresented at colleges and universities.

Women Without Tenure
Four-part article by Cathy Ann Trower and Richard Chait of the Project on Faculty Appointments, Harvard Business School. These articles appeared in Science's Nextwave:

• Part 1 - Women Without Tenure
• Part 2 -The Gender Sieve
• Part 3 - Why They Leave
• Part 4 - Why It Matters; What to Do

Dual-science career couples: problems and solutions
A report on a 1998 survey of couples facing the problem of finding two science jobs in a geographic location.

Dual-Career Academic Couples: What universities need to know   
Report from the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University, 2008.

MIT Reports on the Committees on the Status of Women Faculty 
MIT reports on the status of women faculty and outlines initiatives for change.
1999 report
2002 report
2011 report