Women in Science resources and links

If you have suggestions for relevant sites or stories to include on this page please email Dr Sonia Fonua at s.fonua@auckland.ac.nz.

This page includes:

• General resources
• Presentations on women and science
• Some organisational initiatives
• Gender equity links, nominated by women in Science
• Our women scientists on social media

• Visit Equity at the University/Te Ara Tautika
• Read or watch Associate Professor Nicola Gaston’s book and talk on the topic:
  
  • Why Science is Sexist
    
  • YouTube: Nicola Gaston: Why Science is Sexist
    
• Connect with Dr Victoria Metcalf’s (Lincoln) on social media:
  • Twitter @vicmetcalf_nz. 

You can visit Professor Jenny Martin on Twitter @Jenny_STEM.

• New Zealand’s Association for Women in the Sciences (AWIS).
• The Curious Minds feature on girls and women in science and ICT.
  
• The Athena Swan initiative in the UK, which links gender equity performance to research funding.
  
• The SAGE initiative in Australia – which has implemented Athena Swan in various Australian institutions.
  
• Women in Science Australia.
  
• The EU’s ‘Gender in EU funded research’ toolkit.
  
• The EC’s website on Gendered Innovations in STEM and beyond.
  
• The Gender Summits series.
  
• One guide to being more gender inclusive in research demographic questions.
  
• New Zealand Mathematical Society Women in Mathematics.
  
• Australian Mathematical Society Women in Mathematics Special Interest Group.
  
• Association for Women in Mathematics.
  

• Gender and Society journal 
• The Huffington Post’s women in science collection
• A NY Times article from a few years back, asking Why are there so few women in science?
• The Genderbread Person, by It's Pronounced Metrosexual 
• The Atlantic article, For female scientists, there's no good time to have children
  
• Michael Kimmel's TED talk, Why gender equality is good for everyone – men included
  
• American Association of University Professors (AAUP) article, The ivory ceiling service work
  
• The Female Scientist article, Do we really still need to empower women in science?
  
• The Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics and past conference materials
  
• The Star article, 'Girls in STEM' culture is failing both girls and STEM
  
• The American Association of University Women (AAUW) article, Why so few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

• Equality Challenge Unit's (ECU) Athena SWAN Charter
• Institute of Physics' (IOP) Project Juno
  
• Astronomical Society of Australia's (ASA) Pleiades Awards
  
• STEM Women article, Promoting STEM women: How scientific societies can help
• Twitter responses to Tim Hunt's sexist comments
  
• BioMed Central blog, Are women in science in a better position than women in tech?
  
• London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) blog, Student evaluations of teaching are not only unreliable, they are significantly biased against female instructors
  
• Dr Cate Macinnis-Ng and Dr Margaret Stanley contributed to a series of International Women's Day blog posts for the Journal of Applied Ecology
  
• Science article, Consciously combating unconscious bias
  
• Gender Avenger's Good Read, Jezebel's Female Conference Speaker Bingo
  
• Curious Minds Women in STEM profiles
  
• The female scientist Twitter feed
  
• The Liberated Mathematician's Reluctant Maybe blog
  
• Medium article, How I get gender balance in tech-conference committees
  
• The Accidental Mathematician blog
  
• CNN article, Rediscovering WWII's female 'computers'
  
• NASA article, When the computer wore a skirt: Langley's computers, 1935-1970

• NASA article, From computers to leaders: Women at NASA Langley
• National Public Radio (NPR) article, When women stopped coding
  
• In the Company of Volcanoes blog, It's all for you girl! A message to girls everywhere from the women in volcanology
  
• Tenure, She Wrote blog
  
• Nicola Hemmings' blog, Hopes and fears of a new science mum
  
• Capstone Editing blog, Kids and conferences: Crazy concept or progressive parenting?
  
• The Guardian article, Conferences are intellectual lifelines – but as a single parent I often miss out
  
• Science article, New initiatives offer child-care solutions to traveling scientists
  
• PLOS Computational Biology article, Ten simple rules to achieve conference speaker gender balance
  
• The Guardian article, Why women leave academia and why universities should be worried
  
• Go Petition Commitment to gender equity at scholarly conferences
  
• Naturejobs blog, Reflections on the L'Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science program
  
• Stylist article, How to win every feminist argument: An 11-point guide
  
• The Georgia Straight article, Jennifer Berdahl: The "crazy/bitch" narrative about senior academic women