Resources

(always in progress, suggestions for additional resources appreciated!)

Reports

• Women in Science and Engineering in Canada (2017) (Corporate Planning and Policy Division, NSERC)

• NSERC Competition Statistics, Scholarships (2018)

• Women in Physics and Astronomy, 2019 (American Institute of Physics (AIP))

• Indigenizing the next decade of astronomy in Canada

  • Hilding R. Neilson, Laurie Rousseau-Nepton, Samantha Lawler, Kristine Spekkens, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.02976.pdf

• Native American Participation among Bachelors in Physical Sciences and Engineering, 2017 (AIP)

• African-American Participation Among Bachelors in Physical Sciences and Engineering (AIP)

• The Time is Now: Systematic Changes to Increase African Americans with Bachelor's Degrees in Physics and Astronomy (2020) (AIP)

• LGBT+ Climate in Physics (for APS)

• LGBT+ Best Practices Guide

• Underrepresented & Underpaid: Diversity & Equity Among Canada’s Post-Secondary Education Teachers (Canadian Association of University Teachers)

• University of Alberta 2018/19 Equity, Diversity, and Inclusivity Annual Report

Academic Publications

• Racism camouflaged as impostorism and the impact on black STEM doctoral students

  • Ebony O. McGee, Portia K. Botchway, Dara E. Naphan-Kingery, Amanda J. Brockman, Stacey Houston II & Devin T. White, Race Ethnicity and Education, DOI: 10.1080/13613324.2021.1924137

• Gendered performance differences in introductory physics: A study from a large land-grant university

  • Matthew Dew, Jonathan Perry, Lewis Ford, William Bassichis, and Tatiana Erukhimova, Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 17, 010106 (2021), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.17.010106

• Understanding persistent gender gaps in STEM

  • Joseph R. Cimpian, Taek H. Kim, Zachary T. McDermott, Science 368, 1317-1319 (2020), https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aba7377

• Replicating Meyerhoff for inclusive excellence in STEM

  • Mariano R. Sto et al, Science 364, 335-337 (2019), https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aar5540

• Exploring Bias in Student Evaluations: Gender, Race, and Ethnicity

  • Chávez, K., & Mitchell, K. PS: Political Science & Politics, 1-5 (2019), https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096519001744

• Expectations of brilliance underlie gender distributions across academic disciplines

  • Leslie S.J, Cimpian A., Meyer M., & Freeland E. Science, 347, 262–265 (2015). doi:10.1126/science.1261375

• Sexual harassment reported by undergraduate female physicists

  • Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 15, 010121 (2019), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.15.010121
  • Viewpoint: Yes, Sexual Harassment Still Drives Women Out of Physics

• Are gender gaps due to evaluations of the applicant or the science? A natural experiment at a national funding agency

  • Witteman, Holly O et al. The Lancet, Volume 393, Issue 10171, 531 - 540 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32611-4

• Female students with A’s have similar physics self-efficacy as male students with C’s in introductory courses: A cause for alarm?

  • Emily M. Marshman, et al., Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 14, 020123 (2018), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.14.020123

• Teaching About Racial Equity in Introductory Physics Courses

  • The Physics Teacher 55, 328 (2017), https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4999724

• The Equity Myth: Racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian Universities

  • By Frances Henry, Enakshi Dua, Carl E. James, Audrey Kobayashi, Peter Li, Howard Ramos and Malinda S. Smith, UBC Press (2017)
  • e-book from UAlberta Libraries

• Improving Underrepresented Minority Student Persistence in STEM

  • Mica Estrada et al, CBE—Life Sciences Education 15:es5, 1–10 (2016), https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.16-01-0038

• Groups of diverse problem solvers can outperform groups of high-ability problem solvers

  • Hong, L. & Page, S.E., PNAS. Vol. 101, No. 46. Pg 1638-1639 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0403723101

• Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics

  • Kimberlé Crenshaw, University of Chicago Legal Forum, 1, 8 (1989)
  • Dr. Crenshaw's TED talk: The urgency of intersectionality (2016)

Media / Magazines

• Busting the “Men are Better at Physics” Myth (Physics, Feb 2021)

• Stop Telling Women They Have Imposter Syndrome (Harvard Business Review, 2021)

• The Quantum Computer Revolution Must Include Women (Scientific American, Jan 2021)

• Reevaluating teacher evaluations in higher education (Physics Today, Jan 2020)

• Sexism in the Academy: Women’s narrowing path to tenure (n+1 magazine, Issue 34, 2019)

  • Includes 100+ references to peer-reviewed and other research

• The STEP UP Movement is Changing the Face of Physics (APS News, Sept 2019)

• Gender Matters (Physics Today, March 2018)

• Commentary: Diversity in physics: Are you part of the problem? (Physics Today, May 2017)

Other resources/Links

• University of Alberta Equity, Diversity, and Inclusivity

  • UAlberta EDI Principles

• Particles for Justice Resources Page

• UAlberta Faculty of Science Diversity Hub

• NSERC Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

• Unconscious Bias Training Module (Canada Research Chairs programme)

• Women in Physics (APS)

• Effective Practices for Recruiting and Retaining Women in Physics (APS)

• LGBT+ Physicists (APS)

• Canadian Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CCUWiP)

• Women in Physics Canada (WiPC) Conference

• Black in Physics

• LGBT+ Physicists

• Out in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (oSTEM)

• Pride in STEM

• AIP Statistical Research Center