The following list of scholarly resources explore unconscious gender and racial bias in both academic and professional settings. Unless otherwise indicated, each article and book listed is available through Michigan Tech's Van Pelt and Opie Library, with valid ISO login. These resources complement and extend the diversity literacy training provided by Michigan Tech through the Diversity Literacy Workshop.
Michigan Tech Faculty/Researcher Publications
Scholarly Articles and Presentations
- Student Evaluations And The Problem of Implicit Bias
Reinsch, R., Goltz, S., and Hietapelto, A. (2020). The Journal of College and University Law: 45 (1), 114-140. - Academic Dual Career as a Lifeworld Orientation: A Phenomenological Inquiry
Sotirin, P. & Goltz, S. (2019). The Review of Higher Education: 42 (3), 1207-1232.
- Image Content Analysis of US Natural Resources- Related Professional Society Websites
with Respect to Gender and Racial/Ethnic Diversity
Bal, T. & Sharik, T. (2019). Journal of Forestry, 117:4, 360-364. - Web Content Analysis of University Forestry and Related Natural Resources Landing
Webpages in the United States in Relation to Student and Faculty Diversity
Bal, T. & Sharik, T. (2019). Journal of Forestry, 117:4,379-397. - Women's Appeals for Equity at American Universities
Goltz, S. (2005). Human Relations, 58 (6), 763-797. - A Scientist On Any Schedule
Mayer, A. L. (2017). Science, 355 (6323), 426.
Tips to Promote Diversity and Inclusion
- 10 Tips On How To Organize and Promote Diverse, Inclusive Panels and Keynotes
Michigan Tech Diversity Council (2018)
COVID-19 and Academia
Impacts
- The Hardest Hit
- More Than Medical Mistrust
- The Academic Response to COVID-19
- Mothers' Careers Are at Extraordinary Risk Right Now
- More Than 860,000 Women Dropped Out Of The Labor Force in September, According To New Report
- Pandemic Imperils Promotions For Women In Academia
- Conversations on COVID-19: Impacts on Communities of Color
- Women in Science may Suffer Lasting Career Damage from COVID-19
- COVID-19 and the Gender Gap in Work Hours
- In The Wake of COVID-19, Academia Needs New Solutions to Ensure Gender Equity
- Pandemic Sabbaticals and Faculty Inequality
- The Problems with Pausing The Tenure Clock
- Women Academics Worry The Pandemic Is Squeezing Thier Research Productivity
- New Work-Life Reality Raises Equity and Inclusion Concerns, Says Stanford Sociologist
- STEM Equity and Inclusion (Un)Interrupted?
- No Room of One's
- Resetting Your Research Agenda
- Women Academics Seem to Be Submitting Fewer Papers During Coronavirus
- The Pandemic and the Female Academic
- Women's Research Plummets During Lockdown- But Articles from Men Increase
- The Added Challenges of Dealing With Race and Gender Issues During A Pandemic
Faculty Support
Work/Life Balance and Caregiving
- Caregiving Task Force
- IU Care Caucus
- In the COVID-19 Economy, You Can Have A Kid or A Job. You Can't Have Both.
- Women Can No Longer Pay For Household Help, and That's a Problem
- An Unexpected Upside To Lockdown: Men Have Discovered Housework
- Ten Work-Life Balance Tips For Researchers Based At Home During The Pandemic
Valuing Diverse Perspectives
Articles
Resource Collections
Organizations
Books and reading Lists
- Biased: Uncovering The Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
- 10 Books About Race To Read Instead Of Asking A Person Of Color To Explain Things To You
- Between The World and Me
- 7 Anti-Racist Books
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Stories of America's Great Migration
- Citizen: An American Lyric
- An Anti-Racist Reading List
- Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do
- White Guys on Campus
- Understanding White Privilege
- Ebony & Ivory
Movies and Videos
Scholarly Articles and Presentations
Diversity and Unconscious Bias
- ASEE Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Glossary of Terms
- Black In Engineering YouTube Channel
- Confronting Racism at Work: A Reading List
- How Journals Can Increase Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Science
- Academic Careers and Gender Equity: Lessons Learned from MIT
Bailyn, L. (2003). Gender, Work, and Organizations, 10, 137-153. - Reducing the Effects of Gender Stereotypes on Performance Evaluations
Bauer, C. C. & Baltes, B. B. (2002). Sex Roles, 9/10, 465-476. - Implicit Discrimination.
Bertrand, M., Chugh, D., & Mullainathan, D. (2005). American Economic Review, 95 (2), 94-98. - Both Genders Think Women are Bad at Basic Math.
Bohannon, J. (2014). Science, 95 (2), 94-98. - Gender and social influence
Carli, L.L. (2001). Journal of Social Issues, 57:4, 725-741. - Claude Steele on Stereotype Threat
Steele, C. (2011, November 23). Stanford Scope. Youtube. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvwvvbiwRkg - How Can We Jump-Start the Struggle for Gender Inequality?
Cohen, P. N. (2013, November 23). Opinionator. The New York Times. - What We Know about the Problem of the Century: Lessons from Social Science to the
Law, and Back
In L. B. Nielsen & R. L. Nelson (Eds.), Handbook of Employment Discrimination Research: Rights and Realities (pp. 59-71). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. - Proven Strategies for Addressing Unconscious Bias in the Workplace
Crider, G. (2008).CDO Insights, 2 (5). - Implicit and Explicit Prejudice and Interracial Interaction
Dovidio, J. F., Kawakami, K., & Gaertner, S. L. (2002). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82, 62-68. - More Women in Science
J. Handelsman et al. (2005). Science, 309, 1190-1191. - Gender Bias in Scholarly Peer ReviewHelmer, M., Schottdorf, M., Neef, A., (2017). eLife 2017;6:e21718
- The Diversity-Innovation Paradox in Science
Hofstra, B., Kulkarni, V.V., Galvez, S.M., He, B., Jurafsky, D., & McFarland, D.A. (2020). PNAS, 117(17), 9284-9291. - Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
Hill, C., Corbett, C. & St. Rose, A. (2010). AAUW publication. - Punished for Poll on New Mother
Jaschik, S. Inside Higher Ed, May 11, 2011. - (Counter) Narratives and Complexities: Critical Perspectives from a University Cluster
Hite Focused on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Munoz, S.M., Basile, V., Gonzalez, J., Birmingham, D., Aragon, A., Jennings, L. & Gloeckner, G. (2017). Journal of Critical Thought and Praxis, 6(2), 1-21. - Re-inscribing Gender Binaries: Deconstructing the Dominant Discourse around Women's
Equality in Science, Engineering, and Technology
Phipps, A. (2007). The Sociological Review, 55 (4), 768-787. - Without Inclusion, Diversity Initiatives May Not Be Enough
Puritty, C., Strickland, L.R., Alia, E., Blonder, B., Klein, E., Kohl, K.T., McGee, E., Quintana, M., Ridley, R.E., Tellman, B., Gerber, L.R. (2017), Science, 357(6356), 1101-1102. - Gender and Impression Management: Playing the Promotion Game
Singh, V., Kumra, S., and Vinnicombe, S. (2002). Journal of Business Ethics, 37, 77-89. - Meet the Psychologist Exploring Unconscious Bias- and it's Tragic Consequences for
Society
Starr, Douglas. (2020). Science. Online. - Test Yourself for Hidden Bias
Teaching Tolerance. Southern Poverty Law Center. - Implicit Association Test
Harvard University. - In Bias Test, Shades of Grey
Tierney, J. (2008, November 17). New York Times online. - Further Reading on Unconscious Bias
Tierney, J. (2008, November 17). TierneyLab blog. New York Times online. - Lost in the Numbers: Gender Equity Discourse and Women of Color in Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)
Torres, L. (2012). The International Journal of Science in Society. 4(3). 34-45. - Exploring the Color of Glass: Letters of Recommendation for Female and Male Medical
Faculty
Trix, F. & Psenka, C. (2003). Discourse & Society, 14 (2), 191-220. - Gender Schemas Affect Women in Science, Says Expert
Weiss, C. (2009, October 20). PhysOrg.com. - Cheaper to Keep Her
Williams, J.C. (2013). Center for Worklife Law, UC Hastings College of the Law. Powerpoint Presentation. - Tools for Change | Boosting the Retention of Women in the STEM Pipeline
Center for Worklife Law, UC Hastings College of Law.
Climate and Culture
- Changing The Culture For Women In Higher Education: Toolkit For University Staff and
Administrators
Women's Center, Office for Equity and Diversity, University of Minnesota - I Lost My Baby Today: Embodied Writing and Learning In Organizations
Boncori, I. & Smith, C. (2019). Management Learning 50(1). 74-86. - AAUP: Women Professors Lag in Tenure, Salary
Banerji, S. (2006). Diverse: Issues in Higher Education 23 (20), 27. - Gender, Science, and Academic Rank: Key Issues and Approaches
Fox, M.F. (2020). Quantitative Science Studies, 1(3). - Women's Appeals for Equity at American Universities
Goltz, S. (2005). Human Relations, 58 (6), 763-797. - Practising Gender at Work: Further Thoughts on Reflexivity
Martin, P. Y. (2006). Gender, Work and Organization, 13 (3), 254-76. - Women Don't Ask? Women Don't Say No? Bargaining and Service in the Political Science
Profession
Mitchell, S.M., Hesli, V.L. (2013). PS: Political Science and Politics. - Realizing Critical Geographies of the University
Roberts, S. M. (2000). Antipode 32, 230-244. - Disciplined Bodies: Women's Embodied Identities at Work
Trethewey, A. (1999). Organization Studies 20, 423-450. - Tutorials for Change: Gender Schemas and Science Careers
Valian, V. (n.d.). Powerpoint presentation. - Sexism in the Academy
Vettese, Troy. (2019). n+1, 34. - Why Colleges and Universities Need to Care About Gender Bias
Center for Worklife Law, UC Hastings College of the Law. Gender Bias Learning Project. - Gender Differences in Research Reporting
BMJ 2019;367;I6692
Leadership
- If You Want To Be A Creative Leader, Cultivating Curiosity Is A Good Start
- Academic Leadership: Gatekeeping or Groundskeeping?
- Leadership To Change A Culture of Sexual Harassment
- Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Is A Leadership Issue For All Of Us
- Leading After A Racial Crisis: Weaving A Campus Tapestry of Diversity and Inclusion
- Just Talking? Middle Managers Negotiating Problem Ownership In Gender Equality Interventions
Recruitment and Retention
- NDSU Promotion To Professor Panel Luncheon: Measures of Quality
Video
Evaluation - Resilience Post Tenure: The Experience of an African American Woman in a PWI
Behar-Horenstein, L.S., West-Olatunji, C.A., Moore, T.E., Houchen, D.F., and Roberts, K.W. (2012). Florida Journal of Educational Administration & Policy 5(2). - Dual Career Hiring for Faculty Diversity: Insights from Diverse Academic Couples
Blake, D. Rutgers University. Graduate School of Education - The Search is On: Engendering Faculty Diversity Through More Effective Search and
Recruitment
Bilimoria, D. & Buch, K. K. (July/August 2010). Change. - (Re)Defining Departure: Exploring Black Professors' Experiences with and Responses
to Racism and Racial Climate
Griffin, K., Pifer, M., Humphrey, J., and Hazelwood, A. (2011). American Journal of Education, 117. - Is Engineering Hostile to Women? An Analysis of Data from the 1993 National Survey
of College Graduates
Morgan, L. A. (2000). American Sociological Review, 65 (2), 316-321. - Nudging Toward Diversity: Applying Behavioral Design to Faculty Hiring
O'Meara, K., Culpepper, D., & Templeton, L. (2020). Review of Educational Research. XX(X).1-38. - Improving Campus Climate to Support Faculty Diversity and Retention: A Pilot Program
for New Faculty
Piercy, F., Giddings, V., Allen, K., Dixon, B., Meszaros, P., & Joest, K. (2006). Innovative Higher Education, 30 (1), 53-66. - Why Are We Still Worried about Women in Science?
Rosser, S. V. & Taylor, M.Z. (2009, May-June). Academe Online. - Why Women Leave Science
Rosser, S. V. & Taylor, M. Z. (2009, January/February). Technology Review. Accessed 15 April, 2009. - Faculty Research Productivity: Exploring the Role of Gender and Family-Related Factors
Sax, L. J., Hagedorn, L. S., Arrendondo, M., & Dierisi III, F.A. (2002). Research in Higher Education 43, 423-446. - Leaving Careers in IT : Gender Differences in Retention
Stephan, P. E. and Levin, S. G. (2005). Journal of Technology Transfer, 30, 383-396. - Effective Policies and Programs for Retention and Advancement of Women in Academia
Worklife Law. UC Hastings College of the Law.
Mentoring and Promotion
- The Science of Effective Mentorship in STEMM
- Can Mentoring Help Female Assistant Professors? Interim Results from a Randomized
Trial
Blau, F.D., Currie, J.M., Croson, R.T.A., Ginther, D.K. (May 2010). American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 100. 348-352. - The Glass Ceiling is Made of Concrete: The Barriers to Promotion and Tenure of Women
in American Academia
Bonawitz, M. & Andel, N. (2009). Published by the Forum on Public Policy. - Gender Biases in Student Evaluations of Teaching
Boring, A. (2016). Journal of Public Economics, 145, 27-41. - Models of Mentoring in Communication
Buell, C. (2004). Communication Education, (53) 1, 56-73. - Reconceptualizing Mentoring at Work: A Developmental Network Perspective
Higgins, M. C. & Kram, K.E. (2001). Academy of Management Review, 26 (2), 264-288. - Why Men Still Get More Promotions Than Women
Ibarra, H., Carter, N. M. & Sila, C. (2010, September). Harvard Business Review. HBR online. Accessed 12 March, 2010. - Communicating in Mentoring Relationships: A Theory for Enactment
Kalbfleisch, P. J. (2002). Communication Theory 12 (1) 63-69. - An Interpersonal Model for Participation in Mentoring Relationships
Kalbfleisch, P. J. & Davies, A. B. (1993). Western Journal of Communication, 57 (4), 399-415. - Leadership Talk: How Do Leaders 'do mentoring', and is Gender Relevant?
Holmes, J. (2005). Journal of Pragmatics, Nov2005, Vol. 37 Issue 11, p1779-1800, 22p - The Ivory Ceiling of Service Work
Misra, J., Lundquist, J.H., Holmes, E., Agiomavritis, S. (2011). Academe. American Association of University Professors. - Making the Right Moves; A Practical Guide to Scientific Management for Postdocs and
New Faculty
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Burroughs Wellcome Fund (2006). University of Michigan Library online resources. - Giving and Getting Career Advice: A Guide for Junior and Senior Faculty
Smock, P. J. & Stephenson, R. (2010). ADVANCE program, University of Michigan.
Work/Family Balance in Academia
- I Lost My Baby Today: Embodied Writing and Learning in Organizations
Boncori, I., & Smith, C. (2019). Management Learning. 50(1). 74-86. - A Scientist On Any Schedule
Mayer, A. L. (2017). Science, 355 (6323), 426. - Statement of Principles on Family Responsibilities and Academic Work
AAUP (2001/2007). AAUP Policy Documents and Reports. 10th ed. Johns Hopkins UP, 219-226. - It's Give and Take: Maternity Leave as a Conflict Management Process
Buzzanell, P. M. & Liu M. (2007). Human Relations 60 (3), 463-495. - How to Tackle the Childcare–Conference Conundrum
Rebecca M. Calisi and a Working Group of Mothers in Science Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Mar 2018, 115 (12) 2845-2849; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1803153115 - Balancing without a Net in Academia: Integrating Family and Worklives
Gatta, M. L. & Roos, P. A. (2004). Equal Opportunities International 23, 124-142. - Do Babies Matter? The Effect of Family Formation on the Lifelong Careers of Academic
Men and Women
Mason, M.A. & Goulden, M. (2002). Academe. 88, 21-27. - Do Babies Matter (Part II)? Closing the Baby Gap
Mason, M.A. & Goulden, M. (2004). Journal of Family Issues, 90, 10-15. - Parents in the Pipeline: Retaining Postdoctoral Researchers with Families
Lee, J., Williams, J.C. & Li, S. (2017). The Pregnant Scholar. Center for WorkLife Law, UC Hastings College of the Law.
Scholarly Books
Academic Culture and Careers
- Mom the Chemistry Professor: Personal Accounts and Advice from Chemistry Professors
who are Mothers
SpringerLink eBooks Chemistry and Materials Science, 2018 - Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and
Engineering
National Academies Press, 2007 - The Balancing Act: Gendered Perspectives on Faculty Roles and Work Lives
Susan J. Bracken, Jeanie K. Allen & Diane R. Dean, Eds. Stylus, 2006 - Challenges and Negotiations for Women in Higher Education
Sue Jackson Cotterrill & Gayle Letherby, Eds. Springer, 2007 - Women Leaders: Advancing Careers
Genevieve Brown, Beverly Irby & Shirley Jackson, Eds. Information Age Publishing, 2012 - Disappearing Acts: Gender, Power, and Relational Practice at Work
Joyce K. Fletcher. MIT Press, 2001 - Careers In and Out of Organizations
Douglas T. Hall. Sage, 2002 - Helping faculty Find Work-life Balance:The Path Toward Family-friendly Institutions
Mike I. Philipsen, Timothy B. Bostic & Mary Ann Mason. Jossey-Bass, 2010 - What Works for Women at Work
Williams, Joan C. & Dempsey, Rachel. NYU Press, 2014
Diversity and Unconscious Bias
- Removing Barriers: Women in Academic Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
Jill M. Bystydzienski & Sharon R. Bird, eds. Indiana University Press, 2006. - Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
Cordelia Fine. W.W. Norton & Co., 2010. - Faculty Diversity: Problems & Solutions
JoAnn Moody. Routledge Falmer, 2004. - Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter
Future
National Academy of Sciences. National Academy of Engineering and Institute of Medicine. National Academies Press, 2007. - The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools,
and Societies
Scott Page. Princeton University Press, 2008. - Diversifying the Faculty: A Guidebook for Search Committees
Caroline Sotello & Viernes Turner. Association of American Colleges & Universities, 2002. - Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women
Virginia Valian. MIT Press, 1999.
Mentoring
- The Handbook of Mentoring at Work: Theory, Research, and Practice
Belle Rose Ragins, and Kathy E. Kram, Eds. Sage, 2007 - Creating a Mentoring Culture: The Organization's Guide (via Amazon)
Lois J. Zachary. Jossey-Bass, 2005
Online Journals, News Sites, and Audio/Visual Resources
Podcasts and Webinars
Articles
- What I Have Learned As A Campus Leader During the Pandemic
- The Skinny on Teaching Evals and Bias
- How Black Lives Matter Came To The Academy
- What Is Deadaming and How To Avoid It
- Why Your "Objective" Screening Rubric Produced Biased Results
- Public and Private Investments and Divestments in Historically Black Colleges and Universities
- A Disability-Rights Consultant And Social Worker Explains How To Check Your Ableism Every Day
- Improving Recognition Through Awards: How To Mitigate Bias In Awards
- Two Women Share Chemistry Nobel in Historic Win for "Genetic Scissors"
- Educating For Black Lives: Readings and Resources For Antiracist Education
- Is It a Microaggression?
- We Built A Diverser Academic Department in 5 Years. Here's How.
- Justice in June
- National Geographic Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Resources Page
- 2020 Global MindED: The Next Generation Matters Today
- This Professor Was Denied Tenure. Was Race A Factor?
- Women's Salaries Plummet After Giving Birth. Here's One Way To Restore Their Earning Power.
- When Crisis Provokes The Need For Personal Change
- White Academia: Do better.
- How Does Anti-Black Racism Show Up In Academia: Resource Collection
- This Is What I Want To Tell My White Professors When They Ask, "How Are You Today?"
- Does John Roberts Need To Check His Own Biases?
- Leaders Aren't Great At Judging How Inclusive They Are
- 10 Small Steps For Department Chairs To Foster Inclusion
- How Long Must We Wait? What It's Like To Be Black And Exhausted In America
- Black Scientists Face a Big Disadvantage in Winning NIH Grants, Study Finds
- How My Intersectionality Made Me A Better Mentor
- Women Are Told More Lies Than Men In Workplace Reviews, New Research Suggests. And That Can Prevent Gender Equality.
- STPF Fellow Luis Rivera Tackles Psychology of Bias and Stereotyping
- Children of Colors Projected To Be Majority of US Youth This Year
- Mapping Prejudice
- I Have Not Missed The Amy Coopers Of The World
- Women Told More White Lie In Evaluations Than Men: Study
- Men Get Larger First NIH Grants, But Is The News All Bad For Female Scientists?
- What to Do After an Uncomfortable Conversation with a Coworker
- When Faculty of Color Feel Isolated, Consortia Expand Their Networks
- Delving Further into the Funding Gap Between White and Black Researcher
- Once, most famous scientists were men. But that's changing.
- Dealing With Bias in Artificial Intelligence
- De-biasing the evaluation process of in-person review panels for a postdoctoral fellowship.
- Men Call Their Own Research "Excellent"
Virtual Communication Strategies
Anti-Racism and Social Justice
Podcasts
Articles
- Ruha Benjamin Resources Page
- Allyship and Sustaining Systemic Change: Another Call to Action
- Intersectionality: A Critical Framework for STEM Equity
- Creating A Shared Vocabulary: Intersectionality
- Educating For Black Lives: Readings and Resources For Antiracist Education
- Justice in June
- How Does Anti-Black Racism Show Up In Academia: Resource Collection
- This Is What I Want To Tell My White Professors When They Ask, "How Are You Today?"
- How Long Must We Wait? What It's Like To Be Black And Exhausted In America
- Black Scientists Face a Big Disadvantage in Winning NIH Grants, Study Finds
- How My Intersectionality Made Me A Better Mentor
- Children of Colors Projected To Be Majority of US Youth This Year
- Mapping Prejudice