Barnard Center for Research on Women Advance at the Earth Institute at Columbia University
December 9-10, 2004
Women, Work and the Academy: Strategies for Responding to 'Post-Civil Rights Era' Gender Discrimination
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Executive Summaries

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Introduction

Elizabeth S. Boylan
Provost and Dean of the Faculty and Professor of Biological Science, Barnard College
Summary | Biography

Panel I: What we know: models, mechanisms, data

Chair
Alison Wylie
Women's Studies and Philosophy, Barnard College
Biography

Donna Ginther
Economics, University of Kansas, formerly of the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank
Summary | Biography

Donna J. Nelson
Chemistry, University of Oklahoma
Summary | Biography

Kimberlee A. Shauman
Sociology, UC-Davis
Summary | Biography

Gerhard Sonnert
Physics, Harvard University
Summary | Biography

Claude M. Steele
Psychology, Stanford
Biography

Panel II: What we can learn from initiatives in the sciences

Chair
Laura Kay
Astrophysics and Women's Studies, Barnard College

Robin Bell
Lamont-Doherty Observatory, Columbia University
Summary | Biography

Sally Chapman
Chemistry, Barnard College
Summary | Biography

Stephanie Pfirman
Environmental Science, Barnard College
Summary | Biography
"Collaborative Efforts: Promoting Interdisciplinary Scholars" from The Chronicle Review

Nancy Hopkins
Biology, MIT
Biography

Sue Rosser
Georgia Institute of Technology
Summary | Biography

Ellen Spertus
Computer Science, Mills College
Summary | Biography

Abigail Stewart
Psychology, University of Michigan
Summary | Biography

Commentator
Alice Hogan
National Science Foundation
Summary | Biography

Panel III: Broadening the scope: sites and strategies for change throughout academia

Chair
Janet Jakobsen
Director, Barnard Center for Research on Women
Biography

Constance Backhouse
Law, University of Ottawa
Summary | Biography

Sandra Morgen
Center for the Study of Women in Society; Anthropology, University of Oregon
Summary | Biography

Debra Rolison
Chemistry, Naval Research Laboratory
Summary | Biography

Bernice Sandler
Senior Scholar, Women's Research and Education Institute
Summary | Biography

Susan Sturm
Law, Columbia University
Summary | Biography

Virginia Valian
Psychology, CUNY
Biography

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