Resources

All books listed here are available on our OFAPD Dean's Library Website. To request these books please email jane.mchowat@health.slu.edu

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• Changing the Culture of Academic Medicine
  Author: Linda H. Pololi
  Description: Over the past twenty-five years, steadily increasing numbers of women have graduated as physicians, in sufficient numbers to be well represented in senior and leadership positions in the nation’s academic medical centers. Yet women’s expected advancement has stalled. Women rarely hold decision-making positions, and female department chairs or deans continue to be exceedingly rare. Why is this the case? Pololi’s study, based on extensive interviews, illuminates medical school culture and shows a sharp disconnect between the values of individual faculty members and the values of academic institutions of medicine. Pololi looks closely at women medical faculty’s experiences as outsiders in medicine, opening a window into medical culture. She argues that placing more women and people of color in leadership positions would provide transformative and more effective leadership to improve health care and would help address current inequities in the health care provided to different racial and cultural groups.
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• Legends and Legacies: Personal Journeys of Women Physicians & Scientists at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
  Author: Elizabeth L. Travis, Ph.D.
  Description: Legends and Legacies: Personal journeys of women physicians and scientists at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center features the inspirational stories of 26 accomplished women physicians and women scientists on the faculty of The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. The women profiled in these autobiographical essays represent diverse ages, background and cultures and various professional roles, from clinicians and physician scientists to basic scientists and veterinarians. Legends and Legacies is the cumulative story of women who overcame hardships, biases, and their own self-doubts to pursue their passion for research and helping others. These stories of passion, perseverance and success serve as an inspiration to young women considering a career in science or medicine as well as a road map for working women in terms of balancing work and family. All of the women physicians and women scientists in this book strive for a better quality of work life by balancing work and family.
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• New Rules for Women: Revolutionizing the Way Women Work Together
  Author: Anne Litwin
  Description: Dr. Anne Litwin exposes key sources of confusion and misunderstanding between women colleagues and offers powerful tools for preventing and resolving conflict that result in better relationships, as well as increased productivity and retention.
  
  Readers will learn how to
  - Leverage women's strengths such as team- and consensus-building
  - Overcome conflicts due to gender socialization and organizational culture
  - Recognize and manage role boundaries and gender expectations
  - Learn what patterns exist in working relationships among women and how women's expectations can create misunderstandings
  
  When women can better understand themselves and their female colleagues, work relationships become stronger and productivity and job satisfaction increase.
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• She Wins. YOU WIN: The Most Important Rule Every Businesswoman Needs to Know
  Author: Gail Evans
  Description: Whether you're a top executive or an entry-level assistant, She Wins, You Win will give you the tactics and strategies (and a few controversial ideas along the way) you need to attain your career goals:
  * How supporting each other paves the way for success
  * The importance of being a team player-and how to set up your own winning team
  * When it's okay to break the rules
  * How to tap into the resources already at your disposal
  * Discovering your rainmaking skills
  * Sharing information
  * Why women should forget networking and start "webbing"
  * Women to watch out for-from "Queen Beas" to "Seniority Sues"
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• Success Strategies for Women in Science
  Author: Peggy A. Pritchard
  Description: Success Strategies for Women in Science: A Portable Mentor focuses on a wealth of knowledge and years of experience of successful female scientists from industry, government, research institutes, and academe. This book, through practical advice and real-life stories, presents what knowledge and skills are needed to make the transition from trainee to scientist that, if practiced, will help beginners become successful. This book, in particular, describes the essential skills required of every researcher, such as networking, communicating, coping with the demands of a research career, time management, and the most difficult of skills, saying ""no"" to excessive demands on time. This text also explores the issues relating to career development and the importance of the examination of alternate career paths.
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Mentoring

• Establishing a Mentoring Culture within the Department: The Role of the Chair >

• A Pilot Program for Academic Advancement of Female Medical Faculty >

• Functional Mentoring: A Practical Approach With Multilevel Outcomes >

Gender Equity

• 2017 Saint Louis University Gender Equity Task Force Report >