SPA bookshelf

We have accumulated a selection of book addressing the gender imbalance in physics which are available for members of the department to borrow. These books include:

• Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong – and the New Research Thats Rewriting the Story, Angela Saini
• Why So Slow? Advancement of Women, Virginia Valian

If you would like to borrow one of these titles, please contact Costis Papageorgakis.

A collection of additional resources can be accessed through the Gender Equality Network in the European Research Area (GENERA).

• ASPIRES Report: Young people's science and career aspirations, age 10-19, (Executive summary) Institute of Education, UCL (Feb 2020)
• ASPIRES 2 Women in Physics Policy Briefing Institute of Education, UCL (Aug 2018)
• The Forgotten Father of Epigenetics (American Scientist)
• Using this one word can damage your credibility. Read more here. 
• Ten Simple Rules to Achieve Conference Speaker Gender Balance Journal article by Jennifer L. Martin
• Not For People Like Me? A report by Averil MacDonald, SEPNet launched with WISE that focuses on messages that work for girls in STEM.
• Why It's Crucial to Get More Women Into Science - National Geographic
• Why women leave academia Investigation of Chemistry PhD students discussed in the Guardian
• Disappointing percentage of women awarded Royal Society University Research Fellowships this year RS to investigate
• Emma Watson launches new UN HeForShe campaign for Gender Equality For more details see: HeForShe
• Study: Male scientists want to be involved dads, but few are Washington post article
• We Know Physics is Largely White and Male, But Exactly How White and Male is Still Striking Smithsonian article 
• Brightest girls' among physics A-level dropouts BBC article
• Guardian Higher Education Network Securing money for research is hard for everyone – but then there's the sexism
• Commons Select Committee report Women in Scientific Careers and two T.H.E. articles on the subject, 1, 2. Government Response to the above report.
• NY Times magazine article What Are There Still So Few Women in Science
• The Times on Top Roles in Universities and on Gender Equality in League Tables
• Study on gender bias recently published in the Proceedings of the American National Academy of Sciences
• The Times on Gender bias
• The Guardian on Gender gap
• IoP study on Girls in physics
• The Guardian on Where are the women in universities?
• Gravitating towards physics IoP Report

• Promising Practices for Addressing the Underrepresentation of Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine: Opening Doors , National Academies Press (2020)
• Exploring the workplace for LGBT+ physical scientists, a report by the Institute of Physics, Royal Astronomical Society and Royal Society of Chemistry (2019)
• Gender Matters (2018, Physics Today)
• Gender Dimensions in Physics (2018, GENERA Project- EU Funded)
• Breaking the Barriers: Women’s Retention and Progression in chemical sciences (2018, RSC)
• Black STEM employees perceive a range of race-related slights and inequities at work (2018, Pew Research Centre)
• I.Neill Reid (2014), Gender-based Systematics in HST Proposal Selection
• Moss-Racusin et al. (2012) “Science faculty subtle gender biases favour male students”
• Pautasso (2013) “Focusing on publication quality would benefit all researchers”
• European Commission (2012) “Structural change in research institutions: Enhancing excellence, gender equality and efficiency in research and innovation”
• Nature (2012) “Nature’s sexism: The authors of this publication need to improve how we reflect women’s contributions to science. For this, we must inject an extra loop into our thinking”
• Steele and Aronson (1995) “Stereotype threat and the intellectual test performance of African Americans”
• Shih et al. (1999) “Stereotype susceptibility: Identity salience and shifts in qualitative performance”
• Devine, Forscher, Austin, & Cox (2012) “Long term reduction in implicit race bias: A prejudice habit-breaking intervention”