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CSWP Responds to Harvard University President’s Comments
Letter sent by CSWP to the New York Times in response to statements made by Lawrence Summers, President of Harvard University.

What Works? Increasing the Participation of Women in Undergraduate Physics
B. Whitten, et al. Results of site visits to nine undergraduate physics departments with high participation of women (2003).

Do Babies Matter? The Effect of Family Formation on the Lifelong Careers of Academic Men and Women
Mary Ann Mason and Marc Goulden. American Association of University Professors, Academe, November-December 2002.

Faculty Diversity: Too Little for Too Long
Harvard Magazine. March-April 2002. Women and minorities continue to be underrepresented at colleges and universities.

Women Without Tenure
Four-part article by Cathy Ann Trower and Richard Chait of the Project on Faculty Appointments, Harvard Business School. These articles appeared in Science's Nextwave:

  • Part 1 - Women Without Tenure
  • Part 2 -The Gender Sieve
  • Part 3 - Why They Leave
  • Part 4 - Why It Matters; What to Do

Dual-science career couples: problems and solutions
A report on a 1998 survey of couples facing the problem of finding two science jobs in a geographic location.

MIT 2002 Reports on the Committees of the Status of Women Faculty, June 2002
MIT report completes the 1999 report on the status of women in the School of Science and outlines initiatives for change.

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