Unconscious Bias - Infographic

This infographic was made by WWEST (Westcoast Women in Engineering, Science, and Technology). It summarizes research results on unconscious bias in science.

http://wwest.mech.ubc.ca/diversity/unconscious-bias/

Hi all,
This might show up twice, since I submitted the links to the online form as well.
But, just in case:
I have not read these yet, but them seem of interest...

https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2017/07/06/guest-post-the-day-i-broke-some-twitter-feeds-insights-into-sexism-in-academia-part-1/

https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2017/07/10/guest-post-the-day-i-broke-some-twitter-feeds-insights-into-sexism-in-academia-part-2/

Randomized Controlled study of the effects of gender bias workshop

• This study was done at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 
• Looked at the difference in several attitude measurements both before and after a 2.5 hour workshop on gender bias.
• Measurements were done 
• The workshop included techniques to intentionally change habits. I thought this aspect of the training was important.
• I think the approach taken in the workshop was important and might give a starting point for similar workshops at the U of R

I added this reference to our list.

Carnes M, Devine PG, Baier Manwell L, Byars-Winston A, Fine E, Ford CE, et al. The Effect of an Intervention to Break the Gender Bias Habit for Faculty at One Institution. Academic Medicine. 2015 Feb;90(2):221–30. 

Improving Hiring Practices & the new library search is amazing!

I just read this paper:

Interventions That Affect Gender Bias in Hiring: A Systematic Review Carol Isaac, PhD, PT, Barbara Lee, PhD, and Molly Carnes, MD, MS Academic Medicine, 84(10), 1440-1446.

It is a review, with some meta-analysis, of published, randomized controlled studies aimed at reducing gender bias in hiring. I'm not sure who is handling hiring practices (is anyone?).

It summarizes some great ideas for preventing bias in the hiring process and some tips for women who are job hunting.

Also, the new U of R library search is amazing! Just past in the title of the paper and it finds it. It is only a couple of clicks to get to the paper and if you are working from home, it automatically asks you to authenticate.

Gender Bias Calculator - for Letters of reference

I haven't tried this yet but it looks interesting. You paste in the letter of reference and it counts the number of words normally associated with male and female letters of reference. I will give it a try on some letters I have written in the past. http://www.tomforth.co.uk/genderbias/

And another couple of articles.

https://www.wired.com/2017/05/cant-retain-women-dont-recruit/

And in this next one, found this quote just put it all perfectly

"Having a comprehensive diversity and inclusion strategy in place had a much greater impact than having individual initiatives (e.g., unconscious bias training)."

http://www.kaporcenter.org/tech-leavers/

Enjoy!

M

I found this article when looking up https://thefemalescientist.com/ a web magazine that have asked to interview me (yay!).  Anyways, we all know the results of this cuz we are living it, but still a good read!

M

https://thefemalescientist.com/article/melanie/314/do-we-really-still-need-to-empower-woman-in-sciences/

Found this article relevant to our discussions.  Has lots of good links to other reports as well as Global Gender Gap report.

http://blogs.nature.com/naturejobs/2017/03/20/women-arent-failing-at-science-science-is-failing-women/?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureJobs

http://reports.weforum.org/global-gender-gap-report-2016/

Some good news?

http://www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca/media-medias/releases-communiques/2017/equity-equite-eng.aspx

Sexual harassment

This is so depressing, but so worth a read.

http://ecodevoevo.blogspot.ca/2017/05/in-case-this-helps-you-this-happened-to.html

Sexual harassment and actions to take to stop it

https://edgeforscholars.org/title-ix-isnt-working-nine-necessary-actions-to-end-sexual-harassment-culture-in-stem/

The Matilda effect

I read the blog post below, and found out about the Matilda effect.  Had never heard of this being called that.  Thought I'd spread the word.

http://thespectroscope.com/read/a-reproducible-effect-failing-to-credit-women-scientists-for-their-by-lenny-teytelman-371

Hi all,
I heard from CAUT about numbers today.  Below is the (very quick) response I got.  I will be collating numbers soon.  I will put these in the speadsheet when I figur eout how!
britt

Unfortunately, we do not (yet) have recent data on women academic staff in STEM disciplines. That being said, the UCASS survey results are now out and within a couple of months we should have the disaggregated data necessary to answer your question. In the meantime, here are a few resources, you may find interesting:

https://www.caut.ca/bulletin/articles/2016/03/unmasking-sexism-in-science

UCASS first preliminary results were out yesterday. It was mainly a release on salaries and gender. More information will follow in the next months.

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/170425/dq170425b-eng.htm

Interesting study on racialized women in STEM (from the US)

http://www.uchastings.edu/news/articles/2015/01/double-jeopardy-report.pdf
(NOTE:  This has a really nice summary that we could draw on the the introduction)

Old Stats Canada study on STEM graduates

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/75-006-x/2013001/article/11874-eng.htm

Interesting article

http://www.macleans.ca/society/life/why-there-are-still-far-too-few-women-in-stem/

Incentives in academia

I found this blog post and the paper interesting.  It's about incentives, and the effects it has had on research.  I think this kind of links in to our talks about taking a sabbatical after paternity leave, and how, in an attempt to make something 'fair', this ends up being more beneficial for men and not women.

Enjoy!

https://svpow.com/2017/03/17/every-attempt-to-manage-academia-makes-it-worse/

http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/ees.2016.0223

Student evaluations and gender

I'm a bit late but here is my contribution

Student evaluations of teaching are not only unreliable, they are significantly biased against female instructors.

Creating a Better Mousetrap: On-line Student Assessment of their Learning Gains 

Teaching Evaluations

A few things on teaching evaluations (in general, not specific to gender issues) for Wednesday's chat...

https://ocufa.on.ca/blog-posts/briefing-note-student-questionnaires-courses-teaching/

http://www.heqco.ca/SiteCollectionDocuments/Student%20Course%20Evaluations.pdf

Dear all,

Below a link on an alternative idea for funding research
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/04/new-system-scientists-never-have-write-grant-application-again?utm_source=sciencemagazine&utm_medium=facebook-text&utm_campaign=neveragain-12382

Maria

Next meeting will be on April 26, 1 pm, same time and place.  We'll be covering Student evaluations of women.  Maria had posted an article on this on a previous post, but please post any other articles here.

M

Female and Male brain?

On the female and male brain
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/04/study-finds-significant-differences-brains-men-and-women?utm_source=sciencemagazine&utm_medium=facebook-text&utm_campaign=menwomenbrains-12308

A few blog posts of interest re women in math

Found this through twitter today.  Thought some of the articles could be of interest.  See you all tomorrow!

M

http://www.womanthology.co.uk/2017/03/

Another document for criteria document meeting.

Hey!

Here's another document that I think is worth adding for our next meeting.

http://web.mit.edu/faculty/reports/pdf/women_faculty.pdf

Enjoy!

M

Education, women and academia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1s-AzoKnQg&list=PLm6DqfSkLxb_PcBMw3QP-_OlTkR1-7sLf&index=2

Lean In´s Biggest Hurdle: what most moms want

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/446017/men-women-parenting-decisions-reflect-female-nurturing-desires

Gender gap in Museums:
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-gender-gap-wider-wealthier-museums-new-study-finds

Plan for March 29th meeting - Criteria documents

At our March 3 meeting, we decided the next topic we will research is Faculty Criteria Documents. For those of you who don't know, these are documents where the path to career progress is spelled out. Aka, what you need to do to get tenure, promotion, merit, and even just to get your yearly career growth increment. This is often called "progress through the ranks".

Specifically, we will look for documents from other universities that have clearly spelled out support for women (if such a thing exists).

I think it is also important to look at how criteria documents can inadvertently discriminate against women. We know this could be the case because women progress through the ranks slower than men (even at our own esteemed institution).

If you find such documents, please post links here, or upload the PDFs to our shared folder (instructions in the previous posts).

Hi all,

Here some documents
http://www.mcmaster.ca/vpacademic/documents/Yates_Report_on_Gender_Equity_January_2014.pdf

 http://www.uvic.ca/universitysecretary/assets/docs/policies/HR6105_1120_.pdf

https://www.srte.psu.edu/pdf/Student_Ratings_of_Women_Faculty.pdf

And this one, nice idea but probably the selecting criteria is done by men......
https://www.mnf.uni-kiel.de/en/gender-equality-1/equal-opportunities-officers-of-the-mnf/promotion-of-female-scientists/program-for-funding-to-women-researchers-of-the-facutly-of-mathematics-and-natural-sciences

maria

Shared Google Drive Folder

We have a shared google drive folder - anyone with this link can edit it (aka - add files or edit files).

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B4D9-q4WDh6LbFRnTDYwU0NSWTg?usp=sharing

As well as posting interesting links to the blog, please post links or citations to papers you think are useful to this file
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11IRA97djAFrwG2WfNVv75_OOCIpfJV2uGtfCbdiHF7M/edit

This will help us keep an ongoing list that is easier to check than going back through all the blog posts.

Hey!

Just saw this.  I know we've spoken about not going down the route of encouraging kids, but I just want to have this article somewhere where it will be easy to find!  :)

Enjoy!

http://www.afterschoolalliance.org/STEMprofiles.cfm?idPage=5CB0F1E4-BB94-4572-A9074BCAB2D17E80&CNT_ID=STRY9000649

M

Editing a shared Google Document

Hi all,
Just thought I would show you how to edit shared documents.
First, click on the link to get to the document. You will get this screen.

You can either edit the document by clicking on "open in Google Doc" or you can first add the document to your Google Drive, and then go there to open it and edit it.
If you want to add it to your Google Drive, you have to login in to your Google Account.

To make it clear who has added which suggestions, you want to change the setting from "edit" to "suggesting" as shown below.

I can show you how to do this on Friday as well.


Lauri

Hi Britt,

To your document I would like to add:

5. Recommendations for the Faculty of Science

5.1. Faculty criteria document

5.2. Faculty Review Process

5.3. Female students

White doc

Hi all,

So, I thought that I would post my notes that I was taking on Friday.  They revolved around a developing outline of the document that we are planning. 

The definition of a white document is as follows:

A white paper is an authoritative report or guide that informs readers concisely about a complex issue and presents the issuing body's philosophy on the matter. It is meant to help readers understand an issue, solve a problem, or make a decision.

Seems very descriptive of what we want to do. 

At any rate, I wanted to put this out there for comments, etc.  Please remember this is only a suggestion and a starting point!   

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7r93VVd8FuZbV90MVpmMWl0Yzg/view?usp=sharing

As I mentioned at our last meeting, Nature put together a diversity issue in 2014.  I spent some time this morning looking for articles and have put some editorials in a folder on Google drive found here:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B7r93VVd8FuZd0tkb0RiYXJaUTQ?usp=sharing .

As well, here are two links to some grey literature.  I couldn't find any peer reviewed stuff, but will keep looking...

http://theconversation.com/the-evidence-is-in-greater-gender-diversity-in-science-benefits-us-all-55643

https://www.scientificamerican.com/report/how-diversity-empowers-science-and-innovation/

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/diversity-in-stem-what-it-is-and-why-it-matters/

 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-diversity-makes-us-smarter/

Next meeting?

At yesterday's meeting, we decided to look for articles/data the show why diversity is needed in Science. However, I don't think we picked a date and time for the next meeting. Perhaps this was done at a previous meeting.

Hi all,
For those that might want to see my (messy) notes from our last paper discussion, they can be obtained from here: 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7r93VVd8FuZZ2dXdDk5VjlsOWc/view?usp=sharing

Paper for meeting on March 3

I was tasked with choosing the next article, one that addressed how women "do science" and I've chosen this one by Helen Longino. In case someone cannot access it online, email me (Charlie) or the URWISE e-mail for the PDF.

Longino, Helen E., 1987, “Can There Be a Feminist Science?”, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 2: 51–64.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1987.tb01341.x/full (Accessible through the UR library)

Cheers,
Charlie

Hi all,

Our next meeting will be on March 3 at 1:00 pm. We had a good discussion yesterday, thank you Nola for suggesting the paper. We have not selected Paper 2, but most likely will be on how do we do research.

Thank you,
Maria

Hi all,

A reminder for our meeting today to discuss Paper 1 at 1:00 pm. Do we have a room? Lauri, Britt, could you book the room? We can also meet in a geology lab (CW 237.1), they are all free at the moment due to renovations.

Thank you,
Maria

Link to paper for discussion

Hi all,
Here is the link to the paper we decided to discuss. If you have any trouble, I downloaded it by going through the library. Cheers, Nola

Here is the citation.

Cheryan S, Ziegler S, Montoya A, Jiang L. Why are some STEM fields more gender balanced than others?. Psychological Bulletin [serial online]. January 2017;143(1):1-35. Available from: PsycARTICLES, Ipswich, MA

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