Reading List for the Women in Science Careers Reading Group

Spring 2004

Etzkowitz, Henry, Carol Kemelgor and Brian Uzzi. Athena Unbound: The Advancement of Women in Science and Technology. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2000, chs. 4, 7, and 8.

"Gender Constructs and Career Commitment: the Influence of Peer Culture," in Wyer, Mary, et al., eds. Women, Science and Technology: A Reader in Feminist Science Studies. New York, NY: Routledge, 2001.

"Snow Brown and the Seven Detergents: A Metanarrative on Science and the Scientific Mind," in Wyer, Mary, et al., eds. Women, Science and Technology: A Reader in Feminist Science Studies. New York, NY: Routledge, 2001.

"The Cartesian 'masculinization' of Thought," in Lederman, Muriel and Ingrid Bartsch, eds. The Gender and Science Reader. New York, NY: Routledge, 2001.

2004-2005

Babcock, Linda and Sara Laschever. Women Don’t Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2003.

“The Best Places to Work in Industry”, The Scientist

An article from "The Chronicle of Higher Education" about the controversy sparked by the inflammatory statements of Harvard's president about women in science & math.

Claudia Kalb.  “Should you have your baby now?” in Newsweek. New York: Aug 13, 2001.  Vol. 138,  Iss. 7,  p. 40-48 (9 pp.)

Marie Brenner. Not their mothers' choices,” in Newsweek. New York: Aug 13, 2001.  Vol. 138,  Iss. 7,  p. 48-49 (2 pp.)