URWISE - working group: April 2017

Saturday, 29 April 2017

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

Thursday, 27 April 2017

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/

Wednesday, 26 April 2017

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

Monday, 24 April 2017

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

Friday, 14 April 2017

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-1238 2

Maria

Wednesday, 12 April 2017

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

Tuesday, 11 April 2017

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/

Monday, 3 April 2017

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

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