Written Words

This section focuses on what women say, blogs and biographies, and books of relevance to women in science.

Quotations by women

• Women and feminism quotes She Said: more quotes by women
• Women's wisdom
• Feminist humor page
• Also see the quote on our main (index) page

Blogs by women scientists, and discussion forums

• youngfemalescientist
• Scientific Activist on the site Science blogs
• girlscientist
• Dr Mom, adventures of a mommy-scientist.
• sciencewoman
• dynamist
• Joanne Hewitt
• but before you do it yourself, check out this article on care with blogging
• Discussion forums from the ASCB have posts from scientists at all levels about a variety of career issues

Links to your library: Bookshelves and bibliographies

• References and studies on women in Science from Jo Handelsman's site.
• Bibliography of women in science
• Another Women and science bibiliography
• A reading list for Women in science and academia
• Career Bookshelf from the Chronicle of Higher Education
• Women in Science Bookshelf, including fiction and some nonfiction about women in science. Very thorough.
• Feminism and Science
• Journal of women and minorities in science and engineering
• Women and science reading list
• Gender and science reference list
• Feminist science

Books of interest to women scientists

Most of these fall in the categories of women scientist's history/biography, chilly climate or practical career information (often relevant to women AND men). Also be sure to check out the reports page. Lots of the NAP books, NSF and other reports are listed there, because they are free on line. This section lists print-only books without online access.

• Women of Academe : Outsiders in the Sacred Grove by Nadya Aisenberg and Mona Harrington
• Hypatia's Heritage : A History of Women in Science from Antiquity Through the Nineteenth Century by Margaret Alic
• Journeys of Women in Science and Engineering : No Universal Constants by Susan A. Ambrose, Kristin L. Dunkle, Barbara B. Lazarus, Indira Nair, Deborah A. Harkus. 88 short interviews with women at all levels, in all kinds of science.
• American Women in Science 1950 to the Present : A Biographical Dictionary by Martha Bailey
• Fungus Fighters : Two Women Scientists and Their Discovery by Richard S Baldwin
• At the Bench, by Kathy Barker. My lab uses this introduction-to-labwork all the time; it's required reading for all our new students about lab practices and behavior.
• At the Helm, by Kathy Barker. The sequel to the above book, this one is for new PIs.
• Parenting and ProfessingBalancing Family Work with an Academic Career by Rachel Hile Bassett
• Advice for New Faculty Members: Nihil Nimus by Robert Boice
• On the Market : Surviving the Academic Job Search ed. Christina Boufis and Victoria C. Olsen
• Lifting a Ton of Feathers : A Woman's Guide to Surviving in the Academic World by Paula J. Caplan
• Everyday Knowledge and Uncommon Truths : Women in the Academy by Linda K. Christian-Smith (Editor), Kristine S. Kellor (Editor)
• Lab Dynamics: Management Skills for Scientists Carl M. Cohen and Suzanne L. Cohen
• The Family Track : Keeping Your Faculties While You Mentor, Nurture, Teach, and Serve by Constance Coiner (Editor), Diana Hume George (Editor)
• The Tangled Field : Barbara McClintock's Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control by Nathaniel C. Comfort
• Walking Out on the Boys by Frances K. Conley
• Tenure in the Sacred Grove: Issues and Strategies for Women and Minority Faculty by Joanne E. Cooper (Editor), Dannelle D. Stevens (Editor)
• Every Other Thursday: Stories and strategies from successful women scientists, by Ellen Daniell
• Scientific Papers and Presentations by Martha Davis
• Women's Science : Learning and Succeeding from the Margins by Margaret A. Eisenhart and Elizabeth Finkel. This book examines how women often do science from outside the usual path.
• Athena Unbound: The advancement of women in science and technology by Henry Etzkowitz, Carol Kemelgor, and Brian Uzzi. This is one of a recent flood of books describing women's experiences in the sciences, particularly at the faculty level. It has the right amount of real data (not just anecdotes) and is a fast read. .
• A Ph.D. Is Not Enough : A Guide to Survival in Science by Peter J. Feibelman
• Academic Couples: Problems and Promises edited by Marianne A. Ferber and Jane W. Loeb
• Dorothy Hodgkin: a life by Georgina Ferry
• To Boldly Go: A Practical Career Guide for Scientists by Peter Fiske
• A Hand Up : Women Mentoring Women in Science ed Deborah C. Fort (AWIS Publication)
• Creating a Life: Professional Women and the Quest for Children by Sylvia Ann Hewitt
• Women, Science and Medicine 1500-1700 : Mothers and Sisters of the Royal Society ed. Lynette Hunter , Sarah Hutton
• Women of Science : Righting the Record ed. G. Kass-Simon , Patricia Farnes, Deborah Nash
• The Survival Bible for Women in Medicine by Kathryn K. Ko
• The Woman's Guide to Navigating the Ph.d in Engineering and Science by Barbara B. Lazarus, Lisa M. Ritter & Susan A. Ambrose
• Defining Women's Scientific Enterprise:  Mount Holyoke Faculty and the Rise of American Science by Miriam Levin
• Jump Start your Career in Bioscience by Chandra Louise
• Coming of Age in Academe: Rekindling Women's Hopes and Reforming the Academy by Jane Roland Martin
• How to Succeed in Academics by Edward R. B. McCabe and Linda McCabe
• Nobel Prize Women in Science : Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
• Faculty in New Jobs : A Guide to Settling In, Becoming Established, and Building Institutional Support by Robert J. Menges
• Women Changing Science : Voices from a Field in Transition by Mary Morse
• Research Proposals: A Guide to Success by Thomas E. Ogden (Editor), Israel A. Goldberg (Editor) .
• Women in Science : Antiquity Through the Nineteenth Century . A Biographical Dictionary With Annotated Bibliography by Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie
• Profiles of Pioneer Women Scientists by Elizabeth Moot O'Hern
• Tomorrow's Professor:Preparing for Academic Careers in Science and Engineering by Robert Reis. This is an excellent and very thorough guide to building a career in academic science. I wish I'd had it when I started my own job search.
• Alternative Careers in Science : Leaving the Ivory Tower, ed. Cynthia Robbins-Roth
• Career Renewal: A guide for scientists by Stephen Rosen and Celia Paul
• The science glass ceiling: academic women scientists and the struggle to succeed. Sue V. Rosser.
• Women Scientists in America : Before Affirmative Action, 1940-1972 by Margaret W. Rossiter
• Women Scientists in America : Struggles and Strategies to 1940 by Margaret W. Rossiter
• Has Feminism Changed Science by Londa L. Schiebinger
• Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-Battering System That Shapes Their Lives, by Jeff Schmidt. Think grad school is brutal? This book describes it as an indoctrination into a values-to-order system.
• Women in Science and Engineering : Choices for Success by Cecily Cannan Selby (Editor). (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 869; proceedings from a conference)
• Notable Women in the Life Sciences ed. Benjamin F. Shearer, Barbara S. Shearer
• Winning the Games the Scientists Play by Carl Sinderman
• Who Succeeds in Science? : The Gender Dimension by Gerhard Sonnert, Gerald Holton, Linda S. Wilson. See chilly climate section for a link to an online summary of this study from Scientific American Explorations.
• Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia by Emily Toth. This addresses a number of important truths about women's lives in academe with arch humor. Brief, but pithy. Highly .
• Why So Slow? : The Advancement of Women by Virginia Valian .Why is it that women start out about equal to men, but don't finish up there? A discussion of the cumulative effect of small slights....
• The Door in the Dream: Conversations with Eminent Women in Science by E. Wasserman.You can also read it for free online!
• The Woman Scientist : Meeting the Challenges for a Successful Career by Clarice M. Yentsch, Carl Sindermann.
• The Outer Circle : Women in the Scientific Community by Harriet Zuckerman, Jonathan R. Cole, John T. Bruer

Also

• Women Scientists in fiction, describes several novels featuring women scientists and discusses how they reflect real life. Links to other sites about scientists in fiction.
• Scientists turned authors: someone ought to write a book.

Other sources

Places to start

• Women in science issue of The Scientist
• Women in Science articles from Science Magazine's Nextwave site
• May 2000 Women in Science issue of Science's Nextwave site.
• Expanding the talent pool, a report from HHMI called "Beyond Bio101". Also check out Faculty in the crossfire, for a look at one woman's experience as an assistant professor.
• Online articles about aspects of women in science. These are brief, and would make good starting points for discussion. This site includes links to other sites, with reviews.
• Need inspiration? Gifts of Speech is an unusual site "dedicated to preserving and creating access to speeches made by influential contemporary women".
• The WICB columns, from the Women in Cell Biology committee of the ASCB, provide a variety of topics and points of view.

Other pages of links

• Links page from AWIS
• Women in Science links from GoogleBiochemlinks is a portal to various science education related sites
• Women-related sites in science and technology, with helpfuil descriptions.
• Women, Gender, and Science links has more links about engineering and math, and education issues
• Open directory project list of women in science sites. Human-edited.
• More resources for women in the sciences
• Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering with lots of links
• WWWomen: science has four pages of links (page 1 | page 2 | page 3 | page 4 )
• A comprehensive list of websites related to women.
• Women-related sites in science and technology, with helpfuil descriptions.
• Pages of links from Euroscience women in science
• Links from Science Central relevant to women and minorities in science
• More resources for women in the sciences
• Feminist Gateway: women in science. Also see their index of links to other women's topics.
• Links from AWiSE, with a UK slant.
• Resources for women in Science from Purdue University Women in Science program.
• Women and Minorities in Science from the University of Minnesota
• Women in Technology links, from a project encouraging girls in science
• Comprehensive links list from WomensEquity
• Academic Info: Women's Studies An annotated directory of internet resources.
• Women in Science Internet Resources
• Women in Science and Technology from the University of South Carolina.
• Internet resources on women in science
• Women in science links from the extensive collection at phds.org
• Women in Science links from Women in Physics
• Online resources for women and minorities in science
• Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering
• Online resources for women and minorities in science and technology
• Women in the lifesciences from About.com

Miscellaneous

• Athena was the grey-eyed goddess of wisdom, noted for her intelligence and reason--an appropriate symbol for women scientists! Learn more about Athena here. At times, Athena assumed the guise of Mentor, wise friend and advisor of Odysseus, and tutor of Telemachus.
• Column about this site in HMS Beagle (requires free password)
• The Glass Ceiling Website offers a newsletter called Shatter
• Advancing Women
• Women in technology including an online museum
• A comprehensive directory of Women in Science and Technology emailing lists
• The Hypatia Institute, a "website for gender equity in science", mostly physics.
• Women's Connection Online
• Women in Science page with miscellaneous information and links
• Women in Science Page with discussions about education
• Did you know about these women?
• Women's History, an online journal
• WGICS: Women and Genetics in Contemporary Society, addressing ethical and social issues in genetics.
• feminist.com, a gateway to women's issues
• Women on the 'Net
• Center for Research on Women at Wellesley College has publications on Math and Science Careers
• Women's Studies/Women's Issues Resource Sites "is a selective, alphabetical listing of web sites containing resources and information about women's studies/women's issues, with an emphasis on sites of particular use to an academic women's studies program."
• US Dept of Labor Women's Bureau website. The HTML may not render properly, and unfortunately it apparently has not been updated for a while. Unfortunately, the current Administration has targeted this 75-year-old bureau, the only one specifically concerned with working women's issues, for dissolution.
• Women of Color Website
• WTES: Women, Technology, Environment, and Society
• Third wave feminism reflects "the unique view of women's issues and feminism in the generation of women who came of age in the 80's. You'll find historical information that you might not have known, discussion of politics, sexuality, daily life, sports and hobbies . . . and lots more!"
• Women in science and healthcare resource site from the NIH