Explanations for women's underrepresentation in math-intensive fields of science often
focus on sex discrimination in grant and manuscript reviewing, interviewing, and hiring …

Much has been written in the past two decades about women in academic science careers,
but this literature is contradictory. Many analyses have revealed a level playing field, with …

Why are women underrepresented in many areas of science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics (STEM)? This is a question with no easy answers. In science, as in many areas …

Studies about women's underrepresentation in the US science, technology, engineering,
and mathematics (STEM) academic workforce have flourished in the past decade. Much of …

Why aren't more women pursuing careers in science, engineering, and math? Is the lack of
women in these fields a consequence of societal discouragements, innate differences in …

Last summer, researchers at Yale published a study proving that physicists, chemists and
biologists are likely to view a young male scientist more favorably than a woman with the …

On January 14, 2005, Sue Rosser, one of this article's co-authors, was an invited speaker at
a conference of the National Bureau of Economic Research at Harvard University. The same …

This chapter's focus on gender and scientific careers embodies a core tenet of science and
technology studies: science is deeply intertwined with processes of status building, power …

We analyze programs for undergraduate women in science and engineering as strategic
research sites in the study of disparities between women and men in scientific fields within …

Women and men often contribute differently to research knowledge. Do differences in these
contributions partially explain disparities in academic career outcomes? We explore this by …