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Women in Chemistry

Taking on the Challenges of Climate Change

A lecture by

Dr. Lara Hansen

Chief Scientist, Executive Director and Co-Founder of Eco Adapt
Former Chief Scientist and Director, Climate Change Program, World Wildlife Fund

Tuesday, November 11, 2008  4-5 PM
IMU, Frangipani Room

Come take a journey around the planet to projects that are endeavoring to take on the challenges of climate change and create a new conservation paradigm. Travel stops include Florida 's coral reefs, Fiji's mangrove forests, sea turtle nesting beaches in the Caribbean and the glaciers of the Himalayas.

Virginia Valian Visit

Virginia Valian's talk highlighted how our perceptions of how women and men should be impacts on how we evaluate them.  A striking example was how men and women working in international businesses had salaries that were impacted differently by their qualifications (if men spoke a foreign language, they had higher than average salaries, if women spoke a foreign language, they had lower than average salaries). Here are some links to Valians on-line resources:

• www.hunter.cuny.edu/gendertutorial
• www.hunter.cuny.edu/genderequity

If any of you have any interesting observations or strong impressions you would like to share from Valians talk , email them to cjarrold@indiana.edu, and we'll post them in this spot.

Informative PDFs:

• This thesis describes the case studies of several female graduate students, as well as analyzing the features of their experiences that led to their either completing or quitting their PhD programs.
• Make lots of friends in the scientific world! It is one way to circumvent the gender bias that pervades the peer review process.
• Here is a paper from Nature on Gender/Science assessments, along with subsequent letters to the editor ("Sir")
  Does Gender Matter?
  Subsequent comments