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9/27/07
Top 10 Ways to Keep Women in Science: Pomona College Professor’s List Published in Top Science Journal
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The life sciences journal The Scientist has published
Pomona College Professor Laura L. Mays Hoopes’ list of the
Top 10 things male scientists can do to
help women stay in science. The list can be found on the
journal’s website at
http://www.the-scientist.com/news/home/53655/.
The National Science Foundation’s surveys show that while
women are 45 percent of the graduates of top US graduate
programs, women are still only about 15 percent of the full
professors at the major research universities. The National
Academies released a report on the need to improve the
numbers of women scientists in academia in late 2006, called
Beyond Bias and Barriers.
Among Hoopes’ tips are:
1. “Call a woman scientist from time to time, to chat about
science, a recent breakthrough, your puzzling results, their
puzzling results.”
3. “If you're on a hiring or tenure committee, don't start
reading the files until after you review the primary
literature on unconscious bias...”
9. “When you are looking for a nominee for an award (I'm not
talking about the awards for the BEST WOMAN, I'm talking
about research awards in general), replace that "young
hotshot man" image with a "young hotshot woman" image. Or
even an "old hotshot woman." If you don't know anyone to
consider, e-mail me at
lhoopes@pomona.edu
and I can suggest someone.”
10. “When you're spoiling for a fight, call the National
Library of Medicine and complain that you can't properly
track the publications women have produced for your award
committee because they have no way to let PubMed know all of
their different names so they can be connected in one list
of publications.”
The list of tips is slated for publication in the January
2008 print edition of The Scientist. The journal is
running the article online now to “spark discussion online
of gender bias in science” and is asking for readers to
“suggest other things men can do to level the playing field.
They plan to publish the best comments with Hoopes’ original
list.
Since the list’s publication today, Hoopes has already been
contacted by one search committee chair asking for candidate
suggestions, two women scientists cheering her on, and a man
at NASA reporting that their databases do link women’s
changing names.
Hoopes is the Halstead-Bent Professor of Biology at Pomona
College. She earned her Ph.D. from Yale University and her
A.B. from Goucher College. She is an
active member of the Association for Women in Science and
writes regularly for the society’s publication, AWIS
Magazine. |
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