Reports from MIT's Schools' Equity Committees

• 2002 update on all schools (MIT press release)
• Overview
• Statement by the Provost
• Report of the School of Architecture and Planning
• Report of the School of Engineering
• Report of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
• Report of the Sloan School of Management
• Report of the School of Science (update)
• 1999 School of Science Report
  MIT Faculty Newsletter, Special Edition , March 1999

Press coverage

• "Women in Academia: Engineers Marginalized, MIT Report Concludes." Andrew Lawler, Science Magazine, Volume 295, Number 5563, Issue of 22 Mar 2002, p. 2192
• School of Engineering preliminary study, March 2000: Study points to career/family concerns among women engineering faculty
• Women and Tenure at the Institute. Editorial reprinted from the March/April 1999 issue of Technology Review
• Subtle discrimination spurs MIT to change. Reprinted in MIT Tech Talk, March 31, 1999, from the San Francisco Chronicle, March 24, 1999
• Tech Talk, Wednesday, March 31, 1999, "Administration, women faculty welcome School of Science report"
• "Clintons praise MIT for candor, actions on women science faculty." MIT Tech Talk, April 14, 1999
• New York Times, 23 March 1999, "M.I.T. Admits Discrimination Against Female Professors," by Carey Goldberg
• Boston Globe, 21 March 1999, "MIT Women Win a Fight Against Bias: In rare move, school admits discrimination," by Kate Zernike
• Chronicle of Higher Education, 2 April 1999, "MIT Acknowledges Bias Against Female Faculty Members," by D.W. Miller and Robin Wilson
• Science Magazine, Volume 283, Number 5410, 26 Mar 1999, p. 1992, "Science Careers: MIT Issues Mea Culpa on Sex Bias," by Constance Holden
• Nature, Vol 398, 1 April 1999, "Women scientists unite to battle cowboy culture," by Steve Nadis

Presidents Workshop

• MIT News Release: "Leaders of 9 universities and 25 women faculty meet at MIT, agree to equity reviews"

• New York Times, January 31, 2001, "9 Universities Will Address Sex Inequities," by Kate Zernike

Institutions and Participants

• Workshop Participants
• Workshop Agenda
• Participating Institutions
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • California Institute of Technology
  • Ford Foundation
  • Harvard University
  • Princeton University
  • Stanford University
  • University of California—Berkeley
  • University of Michigan
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • Yale Universit

MIT Resources and Information

Talks and Presentations by MIT Faculty

• "An MIT Report on the Status of Women Faculty in Science Leads to New Initiatives to Increase Faculty Diversity." (PDF, 21K) By Nancy Hopkins , MIT Faculty Newsletter, October 2000.
• "Momentum of Report Needs to be Extended to Entire Institute." Editorial by Lotte Bailyn , in MIT Faculty Newsletter, March 1999.
• Nancy Hopkins' talk at National Symposium on the Advancement of Women in Science, 21-22 April 2000 (PDF 75K)

Data

October 2001
• MIT faculty by gender, rank and ethnicity (PDF 49kb)

October 2000
• MIT faculty by gender and rank (PDF 36kb)
• MIT faculty by race and ethnicity (PDF 30kb)

Administrative Centers and Offices

• "Brown, Clay, Hopkins will head new Council on Faculty Diversity." MIT Tech Talk, September 13, 2000
• MIT organization charts
• Office of Affirmative Action
• Center for the Study of Diversity in Science, Technology, and Medicine
• Women's Studies Program
• MIT Center for Work, Family & Personal Life
• Ombuds office

Other Useful Resources

GEP Annotated Bibliography

Research and Reports

• NSF Division of Science Resources Studies
  Contains links to WebCASPAR data base and a number of other data bases, as well as the following reports:

  • Science & Engineering Indicators 2000
  • Women, Minorities, and Persons With Disabilities in Science and Engineering: 2000
• "Does Science Discriminate against Women? Evidence from Academia, 1973–97" Donna Ginther, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
• "Balancing the Equation: Where are Women and Girls in Science, Engineering and Technology?" National Council for Research on Women
• University of California hiring audit: "Some Campuses and Academic Departments Need to Take Additional Steps to Resolve Gender Disparities Among Professors"
• "Land of Plenty: Diversity as America's Competitive Edge in Science, Engineering and Technology," Commission on the Advancement of Women and Minorities in Science, Engineering and Technology
• "Science policies in the European Union: Promoting excellence through mainstreaming gender equality" (see Topic 4)
• "Who Will do the Science of the Future? Symposium on careers of women in science," National Academy of Science
  

Initiatives and Programs

• National Science Foundation ADVANCE Program
• University of Arizona Millennium Projects

Organizations

• American Association of University Professors (AAUP)
• Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium
• American Association of University Women
• Commission on the Advancement of Women and Minorities in Science, Engineering, and Technology Development
• University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender
• Society of Women Engineers