Food for Thought

• NSF Special Report, 2003: Gender Differences in the Careers of Academic Scientists and Engineers: A Literature Review: http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf03322/pdf/nsf03322.pdf
• FiveThirtyEight, 2014: In Science, It Matters That Women Come Last: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/in-science-it-matters-that-women-come-last/ 
• The Boston Globe, 2014: Glut of postdoc researchers stirs quiet crisis in science: http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/10/04/glut-postdoc-researchers-stirs-quiet-crisis-science/HWxyErx9RNIW17khv0MWTN/story.html
• Slate, 2014: Science Doesn’t Support a Gender Divide for Toys: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/new_scientist/2014/04/girl_and_boy_toys_childhood_preferences_for_gendered_toys_are_not_innate.html
• BBC News Magazine, 2014: Do children’s toys influence their career choices?: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-25857895
• Hormones and Behavior, 2008: Sex differences in rhesus monkey toy preferences parallel those of children: http://www.sciencedirect.com.ezproxy.bu.edu/science/article/pii/S0018506X08000949
• The New Yorker, 2014: Lean Out: The Dangers for Women who Negotiate: http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/lean-out-the-dangers-for-women-who-negotiate
• OBHDP, 2006: Social incentives for gender differences in the propensity to initiate negotiations: Sometimes it does hurt to ask: http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/cfawis/bowles.pdf
• NPR, 2014: Evidence of Racial, Gender Biases Found in Faculty Mentoring: http://www.npr.org/2014/04/22/305814367/evidence-of-racial-gender-biases-found-in-faculty-mentoring
• SSRN, 2014: What Happens Before? A Field Experiment Exploring How Pay and Representation Differentially Shape Bias on the Pathway into Organizations: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2063742
  
• PNAS, 2012: Science faculty’s subtle gender biases favor male students: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/09/14/1211286109.full.pdf
• TEDGlobal, 2012: TED Talk by Amy Cuddy: Your body language shapes who you are: http://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_shapes_who_you_are
• Science Careers, 2009: Finding Your Way Back: Re-Entering the Science Work Force: http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2009_11_27/science.opms.r0900082
• Ms. Magazine, 2009: Paycheck Feminism: http://msmagazine.com/Fall2009/PaycheckFeminism.pdf
• The National Academies: Women in Science and Engineering: 50 Must-Read Bloggers: http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/cwsem/PGA_050396.htm
• Anita Borg Institute for Women in Technology, 2009: Padmasree Warrior’s Women of Vision Keynote Speech (Padmasree Warrior is the CTO of Cisco): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEfZSad_2J8&NR=1
• The Diversity-Innovation Paradox in Science: https://www.pnas.org/content/117/17/9284