Site Visits
Gender Equity Site Visits
CSWP is conducting a series of one-day visits on "Conversations in Gender Equity."
Site Visits Underway
One-day visits began in Fall 2009, with the goal of completing five visits before year's end, and another five visits by the end of the academic year in June 2010. Scheduling is now under way.
Schedule a Visit
For further details or to request a visit, please contact :
Catherine Fiore
fiore@psfc.mit.edu
Sherry Yennello
yennello@comp.tamu.edu
Gender Equity Conference
Gender Equity Conference
Gender Equity Report 
Implementing Recommendations
Summary of Recommendations
Conversations on Gender Equity
Background
To build on the success of the 2007 workshop, "Gender Equity: Strengthening the Physics Enterprise in Universities and National Laboratories," the Committee on the Status of Women in Physics (CSWP) is offering a new type of site visit to university physics departments and national laboratories: Conversations on Gender Equity.
Site Visit Goals
The site visit purpose is to learn what works best for physicists and to carry that information forward into future site visits and physics programs.
Conversations on Gender Equity site visits foster dialogue between visiting discussion leaders and the members of departments or laboratories they visit. Notes generated during the visit will be approved by both the hosts and the discussion leaders, and will be used by CSWP to broadly disseminate these ideas (without any identifying information).
The Visiting Team
Visitors are selected from members of the workshop steering committee, CSWP, and other physicists who are fully engaged in diversity issues. Although most of the team are working physicists, a few social scientists among our discussion leaders will contribute their expertise in facilitating dialogue.
Discussion leaders will meet with students, faculty, the department chair or lab director and whomever he or she designates, and other interested parties. Discussion leaders will then facilitate a brainstorming session to examine the institution’s culture and how that culture affects its climate for gender equity and expansion of diversity, with a goal of finding customized solutions.
Expenses
All travel expenses for the discussion leaders will be borne by APS (with funding from the NSF).
