CSGenderEqualityGroup

-- -- ThereseBiedl - 12 Jun 2007

Agendas and Minutes

• Meeting on July 9, 2007: Agenda, Minutes.
• Meeting on June 25, 2007: Agenda, Minutes.
• Meeting on June 18, 2007: Agenda,
• Meeting on June 11, 2007: Agenda, Minutes.
• Meeting on June 4, 2007: Agenda, Minutes.
• Meeting on May 28, 2007: Agenda, Minutes.
• Meeting on May 14, 2007: Agenda, Minutes.
• Meeting on May 7, 2007: Agenda, Minutes.
• Meeting on April 30, 2007: Agenda, Minutes.
• Meeting on April 16, 2007: Agenda, Minutes.
• Meeting on April 9, 2007: Agenda, Minutes
• Meeting on April 2, 2007: Agenda, Minutes
• Meeting on March 26, 2007: Agenda, Minutes
• Meeting on March 19, 2007: Agenda, Minutes

Reports

The beginnings of a GenderEqualityReport can be found. It has reports for each subarea:

• AttractingHighSchoolApplications
• AttractingHighSchoolAcceptances
• RetainingUndergraduateStudents
• AttractingGraduateApplications
• AttractingGraduateAcceptances
• RetainingGraduateStudents
• AttractingFacultyApplications
• AttractingFacultyAcceptances
• RetainingFaculty

Annotated Bibliography

All documents that are relevant to one or two specific subgroups have been moved into that subgroup's report.

Females in CS in general

• (June 6, 2007) Study from Penn State University about what attracts women into IT jobs. Done by interviewing a few dozen women that are currently in IT jobs. The focus on this paper is studying various proposed career anchors, and how the preference of women for the changes over time, especially for "Technical Competence" and "Managerial Competence". I (Therese) did not gain many insights for the task force from this.

• (June 6, 2007) Article from the Chronicle of Higher Education. This discusses that in Veterinary Medicine, the proportion of females has shifted dramatically over the last few decades, and proposes some ideas why this might be so. Unfortunately, no detailed research has been done, and none of the proposed explanation really helps gaining insights for CS.

• (May 24, 2007) CRA Taulbee survey gives useful data for comparison from North America. Possibly useful to know (all data are `among all CS departments in North America that responded to the survey in 2005/2006'):
  • 15.6% of research faculty are women.
  • 19.6% of postdocs are women.
  • 25.6% of teaching faculty are women.
  • 18.5% of PhD recipients are women.
  • 20.2% of PhD students are women.
  • 22.9% of Master's students are women.
  • 14.2% of Bachelor's students are women.

• (May 18, 2007) ACM-W web site (ACM's committee on Women in Computing.) Similar to the next one.

• (May 18, 2007) CRA-W web site (Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research). Lots of useful links to workshops, reports, columns...

• (May 10, 2007) UW's Institute for Analysis and Planning has much useful data about people at UW. The interface is not very intuitive, but you can get out much data. For example, the number of Canadian Master's students in CS in Jan 2007 was 9 female, 63 male (12.5%), whereas for visa students it's 5 females, 29 males (14.7%).

• (May 3, 2007) The web site of Women in CS at CMU. Very informative web page; we can both use this for getting information for us, and as an inspiration how our web sites could be designed better.

• (March 31, 2007) CAUT bulletin article.
  Analyzes difficulties in setting up committees and task forces such as ours, in particular with respect to how to keep them independent, and whether women issues should be separate from other equality issues.

Unsorted:

• (June 25, 2007) Women in Engineering task force report. A similar exercise as our task force; we should see what we can learn from it.

• (April 24, 2007) Some Slashdot links (found when I was re-finding the NYT article)
• Alot of the comments in the forums are similar to things you hear from male students on campus
• CS Programs Changing to Attract Women Students (links to NYT article)
• Women Are Fleeing IT Jobs
• The Hidden Engineering Gender Gap (software engineering actually)
• (April 16, 2007) Response to "Welcoming Women Faculty" by Amit Chakma (provost), as reported by Daily Bulletin.
• (March 25, 2007) Various work done at CMU: published papers and working papers
• (March 25, 2007) General discussion concerning women in CS/Eng I
  General discussion concering womn in CS/Eng II
• (March 25, 2007) Computing Research Association: committee on the Status of Women". Lots of useful links and articles. Of special note is the Expanding the Pipeline column.
• (March 21, 2007) List of papers from Ed Lank. This also includes some discussion, and many papers we should probably link separately to.
• (March 21, 2007) Study by Cory Kapser and Christina Boucher on students from CS125 and CS133.

Other useful documents

• Form ORE 101A for ethical clearance.