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• APA PsycNET: Work preferences, life values, and personal views of top math/science graduate students and the profoundly gifted: Developmental changes and gender differences during emerging adulthood and parenthood. September 2009.


• APA PsycNet: Women's underrepresentation in science: Sociocultural and biological considerations. March 2009.
  


• Washington Post published The Glass Ceiling's Math Problem on May 31, 2009.
  The glass ceiling isn't just a social problem. Turns out it is a math problem, too. Women are 37 percent less likely than men to earn science-related bachelor's degrees....Some women lag in science not because they are women, but because their professors are not. Full paper by Scott Carrell, Marianne Page, and James West.


• Science Direct at the University of Minnesota published Double-blind review favours increased representation of female authors in their Trends of Ecology & Evolution Volume 23, Issue 1, January 2008, Pages 4-6.


• Inside Higher Ed News published New Numbers on Underrepresented Faculty Members on November 1, 2007. A new survey of the top 100 departments in 15 science and engineering disciplines (including the social sciences) finds that “few science and engineering departments have more than a single [underrepresented minority] faculty member.” 


• Inside Higher Ed News published Why Women Leave Academic Medicine on September 21, 2007. This article focus' on how some things may have changed for the better since the 1960s and 70s for women in academia but many things remain negative and why we need to focus our attention on retaining women faculty.


• AAUP Report Blames Colleges for Gender Inequity Among Professors
  by Robin Wilson, Issued November 3, 2006.
  
  The American Association of University Professors released a report that establishes four indicators of "gender equity" within the professoriate, and offers a listing of how 1,445 colleges and universities measure up.
  
  The report, called "AAUP Faculty Gender Equity Indicators 2006," marks the first time that a detailed breakdown of the nation's professoriate by gender has been released for such a large group of higher-education institutions, says Martha S. West, a professor of law at the University of California at Davis who helped write the report. The hope, she says, is that colleges will look at where they stand relative to their peers, and take steps to improve if they fall short. View article.


• ADVANCE Program: The University of California-Irvine Advance Program
  promotes institutional transformation toward gender equity by increasing
  the representation and advancement of women faculty across entire
  campus.

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