Articles Reviewing the Current Statistics of Women in Science:
- Staying Competitive: Patching America's leaky pipeline in the sciences (Goulden, Frasch, & Mason, 2009) (link)
- US Stem Work Force: Study finds science pipeline strong, but losing top students (Bhattacharjee, 2009) (link)
- More PhDs for Women: Proportion of US women earning science and engineering doctorates rises (Nature, "In Brief," 2009) (link)
- Mothers in Science: 64 Ways to Have it All (UK Royal Soc., 2009) (link)
- The underrepresentation of women in science: differential commitment or the queen bee syndrome? (Ellemers et al., 2005) (link)
- Marriage and Baby Blues: Redefining Gener Equity in the Academy (Mason & Goulden, 2004) (link)
- Academic Careers and Gender Equity: Lessons Learned from MIT (Bailyn, 2003) (link)
- Do babies matter: the effect of family formation on the life long careers of academic men and women (Mason & Goulden, 2002) (link)
- A chair of one's own (Wenneras & Wold 2000) (link)
- Despite Increases, Women and Minorities Still Underrepresented in Undergraduate and Graduate S&E Education (Olson, 1999) (link)
- Nepotism and sexism in peer review (Wenneras & Wold, 1997) (link)
- Does gender matter? (Barres, 2006) (link)
- Men, Women, and Ghosts in Science (Lawrence, 2006) (link)
- Keeping Tabs on the Women: Life Scientists in Europe (Neugebauer, 2006) (link)
- Gendered Opportunities in Biotech (Rees, 2006) (link)
- Publication success in Nature and Science is not gender dependent (Braisher et al., 2005) (link)
- More Women in Science (Handelsman et al., 2005) (link)
- Benefits of Women in Science (King, 2005) (link)
- Stop making it such a big issue: Perceptions and experiences of gender inequality by undergraduates at a British University (Morrison et al., 2005) (link)
Funding Sources
The following list was compiled primarily from the list on the IB website which is a great resource because it has links to most of the funding opportunities, due dates, and descriptions of each grant.
- IB Grad student funding
- Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
- Boren NSEP
- Pacific Rim
- Berkeley Sigma Xi Grants-in-aid-of-research
- National Geographic young explorers (age limit)
- Animal Behavior Society
- AMNH
- AAUS
- PADI foundation
- Women Diver’s Hall of Fame Hillary Vidress Scholoarship
- Annetta Carter Memorial Fund: botany
- BICCCA (climate change in CA)
- California Native Plant Society (local and statewide chapters)
- NSF DIGG
- Kearney Foundation of Soil Science (need a PI)
- Lewis and Clark fund
- Heckard Fund (CA botany) (contact Bruice Baldwin at the Jepson Herbarium, information usually available in January)
- Save the Redwoods
- UC-MEXUS
- Department of Energy
- Department of Defense
- Environmental Protection Agency - STAR Fellowships
- Nancy Foster NOAA fellowship
- STRI Short-Term fellowship
- Lizard Island Research Station fellowship (Australia)
- Dolores Zohrab
- NSF GRFP
- NASA
- NSF GK12
- Switzer Environmental Fellowship
- Careers beyond the academy, UC Berkeley careers center
- A treasure trove of great articles and information from the UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship program
- Resources for early-career researchers from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Resources from the "Women Evolving in the Biological Sciences" (WEBS) workshops
