Continually updated. Please let us know of any good resources we can add.
Personal and career development
Impostor Syndrome
Removing biases from faculty job searches and conferences
Salaries and negotiating
- Evaluate what your own subtle biases might be: Implicit Associations Test from Harvard University
- Individual Development Plan: a career-planning tool for graduate students and postdocs (read Science article about it)
- "Why we have too few women leaders" aka Lean In - Sheryl Sandberg's first TED Talk (followed by her second TED Talk: "So we leaned in... now what?")
- Tools for Change: On-line training (e.g., video workshops) about workplace practices to retain women in all walks of science (admin, faculty, industry, etc.)
- VIDEO: How cultural stereotypes undermine women in STEM by Stephen Spencer, University of Waterloo
Impostor Syndrome
- How to deal with Impostor Syndrome (VIDEO): how many academics struggle with feelings of inadequacy (and options to help overcome them)
- Impostor Phenomenon: Most people who experience the Impostor Phenomenon (IP) would not say,”I feel like an impostor.”
- Imposter syndrome and academic writing: "I’ve always been a bit sceptical about the frequent invocation of imposter syndrome."
- Overcome the Impostor Syndrome by Dr. Valerie Young, author of Secret Thoughts of Successful Women (book)
Removing biases from faculty job searches and conferences
- The Harvard Business Review weighs with 9 key steps for "Putting an End to Conferences Dominated by White Men"
- Rice University: Search Committee Training
- UCLA: Faculty Search Committee Toolkit
- University of Michigan ADVANCE: Presentation on Workshop on Faculty Recruitment for Diversity and Excellence (Strategies and Tactics for Recruiting to Improve Diversity and Excellence)
- University of Michigan ADVANCE: Good practices involving faculty hiring, mentoring, and evaluation processes
- Washington University: Interrupting Bias in the Faculty Search Process resources and free INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEO
- Consultant: Dr Joann Moody consults with universities on how to improve hiring practices. Check out her book: Faculty diversity: Removing the barriers (includes discussion questions useful for a women in science group)
Salaries and negotiating
- Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide
- The Heinz Negotiation Academy for Women - the course is pricey, but check out their 105 minute video, the NGO Program for Research and Outreach on Gender Equity in Society (PROGRESS), a case study, and links page)
- Ontario Chair for Women in Science and Engineering has a website about Salaries and Negotiation
- Negotiating your salary and position from PhDs.org
- "Stop negotiating like a girl" - an example of what to, and not to, write in job negotiations by The Professor Is In (read the comments for different takes on it)