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MIT Undergraduate Women in Physics at MIT

MENTORING HANDBOOK by the National Academy of Sciences (and Prof. Millie Dresselhaus!).

• Women in Astronomy II: Ten Years After
• AAS Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy
• AAS Committee on the Status of Minorities in Astronomy
• American Institute of Physics Statistical Research Center
• APS Committee on Minorities in Physics
• The Nelson Diversity Surveys
• NSF Science Resources Statistics
• Gender Equity Project (V. Valian)
• ADVANCE Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers
• WISELI The Women In Science & Engineering Leadership Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Study on the Status of Women Faculty in Science at MIT
• Percentage of women in the MIT School of Science 1985-1994

Books:
The Science and Humanities Libraries are both in Building 14. If you never go near Building 14, you can use bookpage to request that a book be sent to a closer library so that you can pick it up.

• Estrich, Susan. Sex and Power. New York: Riverhead Books, 2000.
  availability: Humanities Library - Women's Studies Reading Room | HQ1426.E77 2000
• Fletcher, Joyce K. Disappearing Acts: Gender, Power and Relational Practice at Work. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1999.
  availability: Dewey Library - Stacks | TA157.F54 1999 Humanities Library - Women's Studies Reading Room | TA157.F54 1999
• Seymour, Elaine. Talking About Leaving: Why Undergraduates Leave the Sciences. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, c1997
  availability: Humanities Library - Stacks | LC148.2.S495 1996
• Tobias, Sheila. Faces of Feminism: An Activist's Reflections on the Women's Movement. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1997.
  availability: Humanities Library - Women's Studies Reading Room | HQ1426.T64 1997
• Tobias, Sheila. They're Not Dumb, They're Different: Stalking the Second Tier. Tucson, Ariz. (6840 E. Broadway Blvd., Tucson 85710-2815) : Research Corp., c1990.
  availability: Humanities Library - Stacks | Q181.T58 1990
• Valian, Virginia. Why so slow?: The Advancement of Women. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1999.
  availability: Humanities Library - Stacks | HQ1237.V35 1999
  availability: Humanities Library - Women's Studies Reading Room | HQ1237.V35 1998
• Halley,-J.-W.; Adjoudani,-A.; Heller,-P.; Terwilliger,-J.-S. The Graduate Record Examination as an indicator of learning of the curriculum taught to physics majors in US institutions. American-Journal-of-Physics. May 1991; 59(5): 403-10
  availability: Available in print in the basement of the Science Library at QC.A513 and in the Physics Reading Room (we don't have online access).
• The Secretary of Education's Commission on Opportunity in Athletics. "Open to All": Title IX at Thirty February 2003 report on Title IX (focus is on athletics) available here