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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Policy and Global Affairs;Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine; Committee on Increasing the Number of Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine (STEMM); Helman A, Bear A, Colwell R, editors. Promising Practices for Addressing the Underrepresentation of Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine: Opening Doors. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2020 Feb 28.

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Promising Practices for Addressing the Underrepresentation of Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine: Opening Doors.

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COMMITTEE ON UNDERSTANDING AND ADDRESSING THE UNDERREPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN PARTICULAR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING DISCIPLINES1

(October 5, 2018 - December 10, 2019)

  • MAE JEMISON, M.D., (Chair) [NAM],2 President and Founder the Jemison Group, Inc., Principal, 100 Year Starship
  • DIANA BILIMORIA, Ph.D., KeyBank Professor and Chair, Department of Organizational Behavior, Case Western Reserve University
  • JOHN C. BOOTHROYD, Ph.D., (NAS), Burt and Marion Avery Professor of Immunology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Postdoctoral Affairs, Stanford University
  • PHYLLIS L. CARR, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Physician in the Women’s Health Associates, Massachusetts General Hospital
  • SAPNA CHERYAN, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Washington
  • JAIME CURTIS-FISK, Ph.D., Scientist, The Dow Chemical Company
  • ELENA FUENTES-AFFLICK, MD, MPH (NAM), Professor of Pediatrics and Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, University of California, San Francisco (resigned November 2019)
  • IRENE FONSECA, Ph.D., Kavčić-Moura University Professor of Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon University
  • ANN Q. GATES, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at El Paso
  • KELLY M. MACK, Ph.D., Vice President for Undergraduate STEM Education, Executive Director, Project Kaleidoscope, Association of American Colleges and Universities
  • RONKE OLABISI, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Samueli Faculty Development Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine
  • PATRICIA RANKIN, Ph.D., Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder
  • KEIVAN G. STASSUN, Ph.D., Stevenson Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Professor of Computer Science, and Director of the Frist Center for Autism & Innovation at Vanderbilt University
  • DENISE SEKAQUAPTEWA, Ph.D., University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan
  • SONYA T. SMITH, Ph.D., President-elect Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Honor Society, and Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Howard University
  • STEVEN J. SPENCER, Ph.D., Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Chair, Social Psychology, Ohio State University
  • ABIGAIL J. STEWART, Ph.D., Sandra Schwartz Tangri Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Study Staff

  • MARILYN BAKER, Study Director (October 2019-December 2019)
  • ASHLEY BEAR, Ph.D., Study Director (October 2018-September 2019), Senior Program Officer, Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine
  • ALEX HELMAN, Ph.D., Program Officer, Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine
  • THOMAS RUDIN, M.S., Director, Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine
  • ARIELLE BAKER, Ph.D., Associate Program Officer, Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine
  • MARQUITA WHITING, Senior Program Assistant, Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine
  • JOHN VERAS, Senior Program Assistant, Board on Higher Education and Workforce
  • ADRIANA COUREMBIS, Financial Officer, Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine

Consultants

  • KATHLEEN COLGAN, Ph.D., Writer
  • JENNIFER SAUNDERS, Ph.D., Writer and Rapporteur
  • MICHELLE RODRIGUES, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Illinois
  • KATHRYN CLANCY, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois
  • EVAVA PIETRI, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis
  • CORINNE MOSS-RACUSIN, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Skidmore College
  • LESLIE ASHBURN-NARDO, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis
  • JOJANNEKE VAN DER TOORN, Ph.D., Professor, Leiden University
  • CHRISTINE LINDQUIST, Ph.D., RTI International
  • TASSELI McCAY, M.P.H., Social Science Researcher, Division of Applied Justice Research, RTI International

“I hadn’t been aware that there were doors closed to me until I started knocking on them.”

Gertrude B. Elion, 1988 Nobel Laureate in Physiology and Medicine

Footnotes

1

The members of the Committee on Understanding and Addressing the Underrepresentation of Women in Particular Science and Engineering Disciplines contributed actively to the content of the report from October 5, 2018, to December 10, 2019, and deserve special recognition for their substantial intellectual contributions. They are not responsible for the content of this report, including the findings and recommendations.

2

Designates membership in the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), National Academy of Engineering (NAE), or National Academy of Medicine (NAM).

Copyright 2020 by the National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
Bookshelf ID: NBK555389

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