Reading Room
Reading Room
The UO student chapter of AWM has purchased a selection of books on various topics pertaining to women in professional, and often STEM-related, careers. The goal is for these books to be a resource for graduate students, especially to help women and members of underrepresented groups thrive at UO and beyond.
The books are available for graduate students to sign out in the reading room on the 2M floor of the Fenton math library. All books must be returned in Week 10 of each quarter.
Additionally, the AWM will host teas each quarter to discuss specific topics from the reading selection. See the calendar for details about upcoming teas. Additional information, past readings and resources can be found below.
Fall '25 Reading Room Tea
Date/Time/Location TBD.
Spring '25 Reading Room Tea
May 21st, 2025
We'll be taking the diagnostic quiz in “Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office” and then discussing our results.
Fall '24 Reading Room Tea
December 5th, 2024.Â
We'll be playing a game called "Half-Life," where you put together a 90 second academic/professional elevator pitch and will get the opportunity to practice with another AWM member. After, people can present a 45 second, 22-second, 11-second, etc. version of the pitch to everyone! Come prepared to think on your feet, to observe and learn from your peers, or to do both!
Fall '24 Reading Room Tea
October 24th, 2024.
We’ll discuss sections 13 (Cold, Austere, or Queer), 15 (When You Are Told You Can’t: Do Just the Opposite) and 19 (Black, Female, ...Bigger) from Living Proof: Stories of Resilience Along the Mathematical Journey. You are encouraged but certainly not required to read the articles before we meet. (It is perfectly acceptable to read zero, one, two, or all three of the suggested articles.) There will be fancy teas and snacks for all who attend. Please bring your own mug if possible.
Spring '24 Reading Room Tea
May 20th, 2024.
We’ll be discussing building a mentorship network and creating a “board of directors" with the following readings (provided by Ellen Eischen): Reading #1 & Reading #2Â
Winter '24 Reading Room Tea
March 4th, 2024Â
We'll be discussion professional self-promotion (Postdoc Application Email Template, Reading #1, Reading #2)
Responses to Discrimination
January 2019, 2024 (Responses Resource (WIP!))
Jessica Striker's Questions for Grad Students
December 1, 2023
Living Proof: Stories of Resilience [Section 18]
October 18, 2023 (Reading)
Reading Room Tea
June 4, 2019
Reading Room Tea
January 23, 2019
Reading Room Tea
November 26, 2018 (Reading)
Reading Room Tea
April 19, 2018 (Reading)
Reading Room Tea
February 1, 2018 (Reading)
Ask for It: How Women Can Use the Power of Negotiation to Get What They Really Want by Linda Babcock
Women Don't Ask by Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever
Women's Way of Knowing by Belenky, Clinchy, Goldberger, and Tarule
The Lenses of Gender by Sandra Lipsitz Bem
Advice For New Faculty Members by Robert Boice
x + y: A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender by Eugenia Cheng
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
The Lecherous Professor: Sexual Harassment on Campus by Billie Wright Dziech and Linda Weiner
Myths of Gender by Anne Fausto-Sterling
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia Fine
Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers by Lois P. Frankel
See Jane Lead: 99 Ways for Women to Take Charge at Work by Lois P. Frankel
Nice Girls Just Don't Get It: 99 Ways to Win the Respect You Deserve, the Success You've Earned, and the Life You Want by Lois P. Frankel
Stop Sabotaging Your Career: 8 Proven Strategies to Succeed--in Spite of Yourself by Lois P. Frankel
Gender Differences in Mathematics by Ann M. Gallagher and James C. Kaufman
My Answer is No...If That's Okay with You: How Women Can Say No and (Still) Feel Good About It by Nanette Gartrell
In a Different Voice by Carol Gilligan
Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?: Thinking from Women's Lives by Sandra Harding
Asked and Answered: Dialogues On Advocating For Students of Color in Mathematics by Pamela E. Harris, Aris Winger
Inventing the Mathematician by Sara N. Hottinger
How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back from Your Next Raise, Promotion, or Job by Sally Helgesen and Marshall Goldsmith
Publish and Perish: Three Tales of Tenure and Terror by James Hynes
Reflections on Gender and Science by Evelyn Fox Keller
Secrets of Life, Secrets of Death by Evelyn Fox Keller
Own It: The Power of Women at Work by Sallie Krawcheck
Sophie's Diary by Dora Musielak
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neil
Pushback: How Smart Women Ask--and Stand Up--for What They Want by Selena Rezvani and Lois P. Frankel
The Black Academic's Guide to Winning Tenure--Without Losing Your Soul by Kerry Ann Rockquemore and Tracey Laszloffy
Female-Friendly Science by Sue V. Rosser
Lean In: Women, Work and the Will To Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
The Coach's Guide for Women Professors: Who Want a Successful Career and a Well-Balanced Life by Rena Seltzer and Frances Rosenbluth
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
Getting Past No by Willian Ury
The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women: Why Capable People Suffer from the Impostor Syndrome and How to Thrive in Spite of It by Valerie Young
Playing Big
Women and Leadership
The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins and the Fight for Women in Science by Kate Zernike
The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide to Turning Your Ph.D. into a Job by Karen Kelsky, Ph.D
The Girls in the Balcony: Women, Men, and the New York Times by Nan Robertson
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily and Amelia Nagoski
The Myth of the Nice Girl: Achieving a Career You Love Without Becoming a Person You Hate by Fran Hauser
Suggestions for additional books may be sent to Ellen Eischen (eeischen@uoregon.edu) or Kyla Pohl (kpohl@uoregon.edu).