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Perception is key to retaining women in academic medicine
A team of Stanford University Medical Center researchers found that while male and female faculty members are leaving Stanford in comparable numbers based on the gender mix of the faculty, women are giving notice sooner than their male peers. But what was surprising was that the majority were moving to comparable institutions—not relocating to community clinics or pure research enterprises.
Neurosexism and neurononsense
Clayman faculty affiliate and professor of neurobiology Ben A. Barres recently gave a favorable review to Cordelia Fine’s 2010 book Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, society, and Neurosexism Create Difference. While the existence of physical differences between male and female brains is unquestioned, Barres commends Fine’s astute critique of the studies that seem to prove that these physical differences create differences in ability or behavior.
Team to research ways to aid women medical faculty with help of NIH grant
Hannah Valantine, MD, the senior associate dean for diversity and leadership at the Stanford University School of Medicine and former Clayman Faculty Research Fellow, was recently awarded a $2 million, three-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The grant is one of six to be awarded by the NIH and funds researchers searching for new approaches to creating a more diverse workforce in the sciences.
Need a study break? Maybe not
Clayman Affiliate Carol Dweck co-authored a study on willpower. She argues that those who believe they control their willpower outperform those who view it as a limited resource.
Londa Schiebinger keynotes UN conference on gender, science and technology
Londa Schiebinger presented the keynote address at the United Nations conference on Gender, Science, and Technology September 28 through October 1, 2010 in Paris, France. The meeting, co-sponsored by UNESCO, convened a meeting of experts to set the conceptual framework for addressing the pressing issue of increasing women’s access to and decision-making power in science and technology.
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