Women in Biology Internet Launch Pages (www.womenbio.net)

home page: Welcome!

About this site: It provides a starting point for finding information for biologists who happen to be women. It is a list of bookmarks to the ample original content already available on the web. Many of the links are aimed towards women who are graduate students, postdocs, or more senior scientists, but there are also sites relevant to undergraduates or even high school students who may be contemplating a career in biology.

These are intended to help women biologists with practical aspects of busy professional lives, and to provide food for thought in those quieter moments. You will find the history of women in science, aspects of science education, an extensive list of career resources for PhDs, postdocs, and beyond, and of course, information about the specific challenges women face in a sometimes chilly climate.

• This page contains the index/sitemap, and some the directory of recent additions.
• Navigation: Start with the index/sitemap on this page. The main collection of links is now divided amongst 8 pages for faster loading. The buttons at left can be used to navigate between major topics on different pages. Sub-topics are listed at the left margin of each section. Several pages have more than one section.
• Direct quotations are in color.
• See our list of awards, and some words to live by. Comments? let me know what you think at forsburg AT U S C DOT E D U.
• San Diegans: join me in support of the San Diego AWIS chapter.

Recent additions

• Seeking Advice on Women in Science, Inside Higher Ed reports on a hearing at the House Committee on Science and Technology's Subcommittee on Research and Science Education
• Swimming against the tide: African American Girls and Science eduction (Inside Higher Ed)
• Rejecting the fast track Research universities may not be able to count on their ability to attract the best young faculty talent, a survey being released today suggests. The survey -- of more than 8,300 doctoral students at University of California campuses -- finds that they increasingly care about finding careers at "family friendly" campuses. And the survey finds that they doubt seriously that they can build such careers at a research university. Both men and women have these attitudes although they are more pronounced in women.(Inside Higher Ed)
• Stopping the clock on grants?
• Why do women turn their backs on science? From Forbes.
• Redefining the gender gap
• From the Chronicle: Do babies matter in science? Nationally, "married with children" is the academic-success formula for men, but the opposite is true for women, for whom there is a serious "baby gap." Among scientists who achieved tenure, 72 percent of the men are married with children as opposed to only 50 percent of women. Is that gender equity?
• Women MD-PhDs in the trenches
• Shattering the glass closet
• Minority women in Science
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  • Double bind: minority women scientists in Europe
  Don't stop here! many more links can be found on the pages inside.
• You can now reach this page using the URL www.womenbio.net
• Reminder: recent studies from the NAS, NAP, NSF are on the reports page

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You cannot take anything personally. You cannot bear grudges. You must finish the day's work when the day's work is done. You cannot get discouraged too easily. You have to take defeat over and over again and pick up and go on. Be sure of your facts. Argue the other side with a friend until you have found the answer to every point which might be brought up against you. Women who are willing to be leaders must stand out and be shot at. More and more they are going to do it, and more and more they should do it.
Eleanor Roosevelt, 1936

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes."
Clare Boothe Luce