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Resources for
WOMEN IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
BIOLOGY/ WOMEN'S STUDIES 307
Class meets T-TH 11-12:15 in Room 205 Bessey
Syllabus
Assigments:
Biographical Paper
Term Paper
Oral History Questions and Oral History Deed of Gift Form
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Upcoming:
Sept. 10 Introducing our web page, its links, and bibliographic research methods.
Meet in room 32 in the Parks Library.
Sept 15* Diversity, culture, science and engineering. Disabled women in U.S.
Present a short biography of a woman scientist or engineer from the United States who is considered to be disabled. Discuss special issues or concerns that these women face in their lives and careers. Relate these issues to the numbers of women in STEM fields.
*Present the biographical assignment to your group and also hand it in to your instructor.
Presentation by Beth McCarthy on Student Conservation Association (SCA) Internships
Sept 17* Surprises across the cultural divide. Women scientists in other countries.
As background reading everyone will be given the following article: Marcia Barinaga. 1994. Surprises across the cultural divide. Science. 263: 1468-1472. (coursepack p. 3-5)
Assignment: Present a short report on how women scientists are doing in another country. This could include numbers, if you can find them, or it may emphasize special areas of concern. This material is difficult to find (and often non-existent) so you may have to do quite a bit of searching.
Helpful website as a starting point: http://ec.europa.eu/news/science/archives_en.htm?Page=1
*Present the assignment on status of women scientists in other countries to your group and also hand it in to your instructor.
*Also develop, as a group, a set of questions for the panel of international women scientists who will be coming to our next class.
Sept. 22 * Diversity, culture, science and engineering.
Panel of International Women Scientists and Engineers
*Turn in term paper topic and annotated bibliography.
Sept. 24 Gender Schemas. In class activity (no assignment due). We will view and discuss a tutorial introducing the concept of gender schemas developed by Virginia Valian.
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/gendertutorial/index.htm
Additional reading for Sept. 20th Valian, V. 2000. Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women. The MIT Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Chapter 1 (coursepack p. 6-17)
Sept. 29 * Being Evaluated. Read and discuss in your group:
Wenneras, C. and A. Wold. 2001. Nepotism and sexism in peer-review. In Reader. M. Lederman and I. Bartsch (eds.) The Gender and Science Routledge, London. (coursepack p. 18-23)
*Turn in answers to the discussion questions about the Wenneras and Wold article.
Oct. 1* Gender differences.
Read and discuss in your group articles relating to a statement by a previous Harvard University President and responses to that statement found at the following websites:
http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~lsummer/speeches/2005/womensci.html
http://www2.asanet.org/public/summers.html
*Turn in answers to the discussion questions on gender differences.
Oct 6* Gender and Education.
Read and discuss in your group: Sadker, M. and D. Sadker . 1994. Through the Back Door: the History of Women’s Education. Chapter 2 in Failing at Fairness. Touchstone, New York. (coursepack p. 24-37)
*Hand in answers to discussion questions regarding the Sadkers’ article.
Turn in Term Paper
Oct 8 * Climate for women in the engineering workplace.
Read and discuss with your group: Frehill, L. M. 1997. Subtle Sexism in Engineering. pp 117-135 in Subtle Sexism: Current Practices and Prospects for Change. Sage. Newbury park, CA. (coursepack p. 97-106)
* Hand in answers to the discussion questions on the Frehill article.
Oct 13 Term Paper Presentations.
Oct 15 Term Paper Presentations.
Oct 20* Term Paper Presentations.
Oct 22 * Climate for women in the engineering workplace.
Byko, M. 2005. Challenges and opportunities for women in science and engineering. Journal of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society. 57: 12-15. (coursepack p. 82-85)
*Hand in answers to the discussion questions on the Byko article.
Oct 27 Climate for women in the engineering workplace. Panel of women engineers.
Oct 29* Library Research Day for Bibliography project
*Turn in Biographical Paper Topic and Annotated Bibliography to Dr. Debinski by 5 p.m. on Oct. 30th.
Nov. 3 Actions to improve the climate for women in STEM. Panel of SWE, PWSE, ADVANCE Grant
Read Settles, I.H., L. M. Cortina, J. Malley, and A. J. Stewart. 2006. The Climate for Women in Academic Science: The, Good, the Bad, and the Changeable. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 30: 47–58. (coursepack p. 38-49)
*Hand in answers to the discussion questions on the climate for women in academia article.
Nov. 5* Family and Career.
Williams, Joan. 2000. Unbending Gender. Why Family and Work Conflict and What to Do About It. Oxford Univ. Press. Chapter 1 . (coursepack p. 68-81)
Read and discuss with your group the material found on the following website:
http://www.mothersandmore.org/Advocacy/WilliamsForum.shtml
*Hand in answers/responses to the questions provided relating to the information on the websites regarding family and career.
Nov. 10 Family and Career.
Mason, M.A. and M. Goulden. 2004. Marriage and Baby Blues: Redefining Gender Equity in the Academy. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 596: 86-103. (coursepack p. 50-66)
Develop several questions for the Juggling Family and Career Panel in your group.
*Turn in Biographical Paper
Nov. 12 * Juggling Family and Career Panel.
Nov 17* Feminists who critique science and their critiques.
Part one. Develop a short biography of the woman to present. (Photographs are always nice).
Part two. Present a summary of her philosophy or approach. For example with Sue Rosser you would try and explain what she means by female friendly science.
Read S. V. Rosser. 1992. Are there feminist methodologies appropriate for the natural science and do they make a difference”? Women's Studies International Forum 15:535-550 (coursepack p. 86-96)
*Present the assignment on feminists and their critiques to your group and also hand it in to your instructor.
Nov 19* Women, Work and the Academy – Strategies for Success
Read Wylie, A, J. R. Jakobsen, and G. Fosado. 2007. Women, Work and the Academy: Strategies for responding to post-civil rights era gender discrimination. Barnard Center for Research on Women. (coursepack p. 107-126)
*Present the assignment on Women, Work and the Academy to your group and also hand it in to your instructor.
Thanksgiving Break November 23-27
Dec. 1* Women in the Field. Panel discussion by women field biologists.
Dec. 3 Biographical Presentations
Dec. 8 Biographical Presentations
Dec. 10 Biographical Presentations
Dec 14 Final Exam date. Turn in your final essay by noon to Dr. Debinski (249 Bessey Hall). More information will be provided regarding this essay later in class.
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Grading Point Breakdown
Assignment |
Points |
Due Date |
Term Paper Topic and Annotated
Bibliography |
20 |
Sept 22 |
Term Paper |
50 |
Oct 6 |
Term Paper Presentation |
30 |
Oct 13, 15, 20 |
Biographical Paper Topic & Annotated Bibliography |
20 |
Oct 29 |
Biographical Paper |
50 |
Nov 10 |
Biographical Paper Presentation |
30 |
Dec 3,8,10 |
Class Participation |
75 |
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Final Exam essay due |
25 |
Dec. 14th due by noon |
Written assignments |
10 at 10 points =
100 pts. |
See Syllabus for due date. Choose 10 out of 13 possible written assignments. |
Total points = 400 |
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Written assignments: Questions will be provided for each set of articles. Answers to the questions should be turned in either at the end of class the date they are due or, if necessary, by 5 p.m. on the due date. Five percentage points per day will be deducted from late assignments. Answers can be amended during class as a result of group/whole class discussion.
Separate handouts describing the other assignments (e.g. term paper) will be given out in subsequent classes.
Instructor:
Dr. Diane Debinski,
Professor
Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology
249 Bessey Hall
294-2460
debinski@iastate.edu
WISE Archivist and Resource Coordinator:
Tanya Zanish-Belcher
Department Head, Special Collections & University Archives and WISE Curator
Women in Science and Engineering Archives
403 Parks Library
294-6648
tzanish@iastate.edu
Course Website http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/wise/web.html
Note: If you have a documented disability and anticipate needing accommodations in this course, please make arrangements to meet with me soon to discuss this issue. Please request that a Disability Resources staff office (phone 515-294-7220) send a Student Academic Accommodation Request (SAAR) form verifying your disability and specifying the accommodation you will need. SDR is located on the main floor of the Student Services Building, Room 1076.
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RELATED LINKS
4000 Years of Women in Science
http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/
Changing
the Face of Medicine: Celebrating Women Physicians
(National Library of Medicine)
The ADA Project: Women in Computing
http://tap.mills.edu
Minorities in the Sciences: References (LSU)
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/hum/mlk/srs119.html
IEEE History Center
http://www.ieee.org/organizations/history_center/
International Archive of Women in Architecture
http://spec.lib.vt.edu/IAWA/
National Academy of Engineering: Celebration
of Women in Engineering
http://www.nae.edu/cwe
Women and Mathematics
http://www.forum.swarthmore.edu/social/math.women.html
Women in Astronomy: An Introductory
Resource Guide to Materials in English
http://www.astrosociety.org/education/resources/womenast_bib.html
(Astronomical Society of the Pacific)
Women in Science: A Selection of 16 Significant
Contributors
(San Diego Supercomputer Center)
http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/
Women in Science
Adultlearn.com
http://www.adultlearn.com/women-in-science.html
National Women's History Project
http://www.nwhp.org/
Women of Science at the Marine Biological Laboratory
http://www.mbl.edu/publications/women_index.html
History of Science Repository and Website Links
American Institute of Physics - Center for History of
Physics
http://www.aip.org/
The American Philosophical Society
http://www.amphilsoc.org
Caltech Archives
http://www.caltech.edu/archives/
Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics
http://cwp.library.ucla.edu
Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
http://www.lbl.gov
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Archives and Records Office
http://www-library.lbl.gov/teid/tmAro/aboutus/AroDefault.htm
Lemelson Center (Smithsonian Institution)
http://invention.smithsonian.org/home/
Other sites
Society of American Archivists
http://www.archivists.org
Conservation OnLine: Resources for Conservation
Professionals
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu
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