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Science by Women by
This book provides a roadmap for those embarking on a career in STEM, whether in the research or industry realms. Focusing on paths taken by women, the contributors lend their stories, tips and tricks, and hardships they faced entering into fields historically dominated by men. The authors provide practical advice, highlighting soft skills that are not often taught as modules in the classroom.
The Latinx Guide to Graduate School by
This book offers readers advice on the graduate school process-from the application stage to the cultivating of effective networks in academia. It provides both institutional analysis and advice for prospective and current graduate students, with a specific focus on the humanities and social sciences. The authors – who draw on their work as students, professors, thesis advisors and mentors -- discuss common challenges, key questions, and helpful techniques for supporting Latinx students that will be helpful for both students and faculty mentors.
Queer Career: sexuality and work in modern America by
Arguing that queer workers were more visible than hidden and, against the backdrop of state aggression, vulnerable to employer exploitation, the author positions employment and fear of job loss as central to gay life in postwar America. Queer Career shows how LGBT history helps us understand the recent history of capitalism and labor and rewrites our understanding of the queer past.
Driving Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion by
A key feature of this book is a primer, which is a quick reference guide to key terms, concepts, and definitions. It helps to define justice, equity, diversity, inclusion, and other key terms, such as unconscious bias, stereotypes, and microaggressions. It also features a toolkit, which includes checklists to help managers lead organizations to realize their own North Star vision. The other contents help managers to assess organizational systems that justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion impact, and take a deeper dive into realigning their organizations. It provides tools to do this, as well as interviews with DEI practitioners that cover useful practices and case studies. The framework it presents builds an inclusive organization, and a model to engage and support senior and middle management who are beginning the process of systemic change.
Misconceiving Merit: Paradoxes of Excellence and Devotion in Academic Science and Engineering by
An incisive study showing how cultural ideas of merit in academic science produce unfair and unequal outcomes. The authors address the cultural foundations of a paradox. On one hand, academic science, engineering, and math revere meritocracy, a system that recognizes and rewards those with the greatest talent and dedication. At the same time, women and some racial and sexual minorities remain underrepresented and often feel unwelcome and devalued in STEM. How can academic science, which so highly values meritocracy and objectivity, produce these unequal outcomes? The insights here can help higher education administrators working toward greater equity as well as for scientists and engineers striving to change entrenched patterns of inequality in STEM.
Gender Diversity and Non-Binary Inclusion in the Workplace by
Helping to create inclusive work environments for non-binary people, this book builds knowledge of non-binary identities and provides practical solutions to many of the basic workplace problems this group face. Working with and including non-binary people in the workplace is beneficial for both employer and employee, as it attracts and retains younger and non-binary workers by helping promote an inclusive brand, as well as satisfying equality obligations. Based on novel research of non-binary inclusion within businesses, it provides a basic overview of non-binary people, a business case for inclusion, a brief description of how non-binary people fit into current equality laws and likely future developments in the area. A solid introduction for companies wishing to embrace all genders in the workplace.
Conquering Academia: transparent experiences of diverse female doctoral students by
This book highlights the lived experiences of diverse women who are progressing through a doctoral degree program, covering the challenges as well as opportunities that they face. It addresses themes of intersectionality, lived experiences, challenges and opportunities. Part of the Contemporary Perspectives on Access, Equity, and Achievement series, this book describes how their cultural identities assist them with navigating the academic landscape, and provides guidance for current female doctoral students about strategic positioning as a student within the doctoral program and personal necessary transformation in academia. It also informs faculty and staff in academia about the experiences of diverse women and how to support their progression and overall retention.
The Public Professor: how to use your research to change the world by
The work of academics can matter and be influential on a public level, but the path to becoming a public intellectual, influential policy advisor, valued community resource or go-to person on an issue is not one that most scholars are trained for. This book offers scholars strategies to become more engaged with the public on a variety of fronts: online, in print, at council hearings, even with national legislation. Lee Badgett (@LeeBadgett), is a veteran policy analyst and public intellectual with 25+ years of experience connecting cutting edge research with policymakers and the public.
Autism Works by
Packed with real-life case studies examining the day-to-day working lives of people across the autism spectrum in a wide variety of careers, this book provides constructive solutions for both employers seeking to improve their workplaces and for individuals with autism considering their employment options. It dispels popular myths about autism, such as that everyone is good at IT, and crucially tackles the potential job opportunities available across the spectrum, including for those who have no language at all. It also highlights the neglected area of gender differences in the workplace.
Hidden Inequalities in the Workplace by
The book presents a critical framework for assessing whether organisational practice and function reinforces unseen potential differences amongst individuals in the workplace.
Expanding the Circle by 
Gendered Success in Higher Education by
Examines higher education institutions that exemplify gendered success whether in terms of the presence of women in senior positions or attempts to change a gendered organisational culture. It proposes a new gender agenda, identifies the factors that need to be included in a model of gendered change, and provides important insights into the nature of gendered change globally.
A Practical Guide to Gender Diversity for CS Professors by
Computer science faces a continuing crisis in the lack of females pursuing and succeeding in the field. Companies may suffer due to reduced product quality, students suffer because educators have failed to adjust to diverse populations, and future generations suffer due to a lack of role models and continued challenges in the environment. In this book, we draw on the latest research in sociology, psychology, and education to first identify why we should be striving for gender diversity (beyond social justice).
Navigating Academia: a Guide for Women and Minority STEM Faculty by
This book explores the infrastructure of the academy and provides a systematic account of where and why women and minorities fall behind men in the preparation for and development of their academic careers. This book offers useful strategies for recruiting, retaining, and advancing women and minorities.
Mentoring Faculty of Color by
The 14 new essays in this collection come from underrepresented faculty who teach at predominantly white colleges and universities. This book discusses both the tenure and promotion experiences of faculty of color and is not racial, ethnic, gender, cultural or discipline specific. The book is thus not only for aspiring graduate students of color and faculty of color desirous of outside mentoring, but is also aimed toward administrators interested in the professional development and dilemmas of faculty of color.
Homofiles: theory, sexuality, and graduate studies by
This volume collects the work of gay, lesbian, and transgender graduate students who are pursuing studies across the humanities. This is the first anthology to specifically explore the role of queer and transgender intellectuals-in-training within the academy, and the contributors both analyze and challenge the structures of academia that they are working in as cultural critics.
Occupying Disability: Critical Approaches to Community, Justice, and Decolonizing Disability by
This book explores the concept of "occupation" in disability well beyond traditional clinical formulations of disability: it considers disability not in terms of pathology or impairment, but as a range of unique social identities and experiences that are shaped by visible or invisible diagnoses/impairments, socio-cultural perceptions and environmental barriers and offers innovative ideas on how to apply theoretical training to real world contexts.
Divergent Mind: thriving in a world that wasn't designed for you by
This book contains a paradigm-shifting study of neurodivergent women - those with ADHD, autism, synesthesia, high sensitivity, and sensory processing disorder. When it comes to women, sensory processing differences are often overlooked, masked, or mistaken for something else entirely. The author offers a path forward, describing practical changes in how we communicate, how we design our surroundings, and how we can better support divergent minds. When we allow our wide variety of brain makeups to flourish, we create a better tomorrow for us all.
Transgender in the Workplace: the complete guide to the new authenticity for employers and gender-diverse professionals by
Offering a fresh and practical perspective for employers and gender-diverse professionals, this book presents useful tools, information, and resources to help organizations and individuals to understand and leverage the power of gender authenticity as a pathway to business success. The unemployment rate for gender-diverse individuals is disproportionately high. The author, a leading diversity consultant, introduces five fundamentals for creating gender-authentic workplaces.
