Books and Articles
Apugo, D.L., "'We all we got’: Considering peer relationships as multi-purpose sustainability outlets among millennial Black women graduate students attending majority White urban universities,” The Urban Review 49/2 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11256-017-0404-2
Aryan, B., Guzman, F., “Women of Color and the PhD: Experiences in Formal Graduate Support Programs,” Journal of Business Studies Quarterly 1/4 (2010).
Bertrand Jones, T., Wilder, J., Osborne-Lampkin, L., “Employing a Black Feminist Approach to Doctoral Advising: Preparing Black Women for the Professoriate,” The Journal of Negro Education 82/3 (2013). https://doi.org/10.7709/jnegroeducation.82.3.0326
Boustan, L., Langan, A., “Variation in Women's Success across PhD Programs in Economics,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 33/1 (2019). DOI: 10.1257/jep.33.1.23
Buckles, K., “Fixing the Leaky Pipeline: Strategies for Making Economics Work for Women at Every Stage,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 33/1 (2019). DOI: 10.1257/jep.33.1.43
Crumb, L., Haskins, N., Dean, L., Avent Harris, J., “Illuminating Social-Class Identity: The Persistence of Working-Class African American Women Doctoral Students. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 13/3 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1037/dhe0000109
Davidson, M.N., Foster-Johnson, L., “Mentoring in the Preparation of Graduate Researchers of Color,” Review of Educational Research 71/4 (2001). https://doi.org/10.3102/00346543071004549
Flaherty, C., “The Prestige Gap,” Inside Higher Ed (February 8, 2017).
Fisher, A.J., Mendoza-Denton, R., Patt, C., Young, I., Eppig, A, Garrell, R.L., et al., “Structure and Belonging: Pathways to Success for Underrepresented Minority and Women PhD students in STEM Fields, “PLoS ONE 14/1 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0209279
Gutiérrez y Muhs, G., Flores Niemann, Y., Gonzalez, C.G., Harris, A.P., eds., Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia (Utah State University Press, 2012).
Holman, L., Stuart-Fox, D., Hauser, C.E., “The Gender Gap in Science: How Long Until Women are Equally Represented?” PLOS Biology 16/4 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2004956
Joseph, J., “From One Culture to Another: Years One and Two of Graduate School for African American Women in the STEM Fields,” International Journal of Doctoral Studies 7 (2012). https://doi.org/10.28945/1571
Kahn, S., Ginther, D., “Women and STEM,” NBER Working Paper 23525 (2017). https://www.nber.org/papers/w23525
McKee, K.D., Delgado, D.A., eds., Degrees of Difference: Reflections of Women of Color on Graduate School (Univ. of Illinois Press, 2020). See also Science.
Langin, K., “When You’re the Only Woman: The Challenges for Female Ph.D. Students in Male-Dominated Cohorts,” Science (October 24, 2018).
Lundberg, S., Stearns, J., “Women in Economics: Stalled Progress,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 33/1 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1257/jep.33.1.3
Margolis, E., Romero, M., “‘The Department Is Very Male, Very White, Very Old, and Very Conservative’: The Functioning of the Hidden Curriculum in Graduate Sociology Departments” Harvard Educational Review 68/1 (1998). https://doi.org/10.17763/haer.68.1.1q3828348783j851
McGee, E.O., Bentley, L., The Troubled Success of Black Women in STEM, Cognition and Instruction, 35/4 (2017). DOI: 10.1080/07370008.2017.1355211
McKee, K.D., Delgado, D.A., “How to Retain Women of Color and Indigenous Women Grad Students,” Inside Higher Ed (May 1, 2020).
Posselt, J., Equity in Science: Representation, Culture, and the Dynamics of Change in Graduate Education (Stanford Univ. Press, 2020). Discussed in Nature
Social Sciences Feminist Network Research Interest Group, “The Burden of Invisible Work in Academia: Social Inequalities and Time Use in Five University Departments,” Humboldt Journal of Social Relations 39 (2017).
Wilkins-Yel, K.G., Hyman, J., Zounlome, N.O.O., “Linking intersectional invisibility and hypervisibility to experiences of microaggressions among graduate women of color in STEM,” Journal of Vocational Behavior, 113 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2018.10.018
Wilson, M.A., DePass, A.L., Bean, A.J., “Institutional Interventions that Remove Barriers to Recruit and Retain Diverse Biomedical PhD Students,” CBE—Life Sciences Education, 17/2 (2018).
Yang, Y., Chawla, N.V., Uzzi, B., “A Network’s Gender Composition and Communication Pattern Predict Women’s Leadership Success,” PNAS 116/6 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1721438116
Online Guides, Bibliographies, Other Resources
Women in STEM Resources @ Pitt: This guide is designed to assist those researching women in STEM -- Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics -- and related topics.
Gender Bias in Academe: An Annotated Bibliography of Important Recent Studies
Guide for Women in Mathematics: History, Scholarships, and Career Potential
A Guide for Women in STEM: Closing the Gender Gap
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