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A National Analysis of Diversity in Science and Engineering Faculties at Research Universities
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by Dr. Donna , J. Nelson & Diana C. Rogers. The first national and most comprehensive analysis to date of tenured and tenure track faculty in the “top 50” departments of science and engineering disciplines shows that females and minorities are significantly underrepresented. This link will download a full pdf version of the report.
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Educational Pipeline Issues for Women
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Essay
This essay is based on a talk by Nancy G. Leveson in 1990 in which she stressed a clearer understanding of the problem before constructing well-directed programs to help increase the number of women in Science and engineering fields.
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Subtle Discrimination in the Workplace
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Student Essay
by Joel Palacios. Despite efforts to diversify corporate America, there is still a disturbing shortage of minorities at the upper level positions of all professions. In this essay, the author presents a scenario in which subtle discrimination appears to be a problem for the protagonist. He then interviews three professionals who work with such cases in order to shed light on this complicated problem.
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Gender Bias and the Foreign Client
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Student Essay
by Sohan "Billy" Lall. In this essay, the author describes interviews with two professionals who work with sexual harassment cases in order to ascertain the best ways for individuals to cope with sexual harassment on the job. First begun as a project of the Engineering Coalition of Schools for Excellence in Education and Leadership (ECSEL).
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Sexual Harassment in Corporate America
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Student Essay
by Lauralee Grizzaffi and Christine Rosenwasser. This essay is based on interviews with representatives from the aerospace and biomedical industries and compares sexual harassment policies within each industry as well as across industries.
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Abstracts
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Summaries of a number of articles on diversity issues. There are also several subject indices that organize abstracts by specific diveristy topics. The majority of these abstracts were prepared by students at Case Western Reserve University and Massechusetts Institute of Technology in the 1990s. They are kept here for historical reference.