(revised Agenda - January 6)

DIVERSIFYING THE SCIENCE & ENGINEERING WORKFORCE:

WOMEN, UNDERREPRESENTED MINORITIES, AND THEIR S&E CAREERS

The Science and Engineering Workforce Project

of the National Bureau of Economic Research

Sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

January 14-15, 2005

Richard B. Freeman and Daniel L. Goroff: Organizers

The National Bureau of Economic Research

1050 Massachusetts Avenue, 3^rd floor

Purpose: Women and underrepresented minorities have increased their share of S&E degrees in the past two decades. What forces have facilitated/impeded this process? How has the labor market adjusted? What challenges do women and underrepresented groups face in the S&E job market and how can these be alleviated? What programs and policies can further the process of diversifying the science workforce?

FRIDAY, JANUARY 14

Opening Statement

8:45am

Richard B. Freeman, Greetings

Panel 1: Introduction: The Current Situation

9:0010:30am

Richard B. Freeman, Tanwin Chang, Hanley Chiang; Harvard University and NBER

Recent Progress in S&E Developments

Mary Frase, NSF

Highlights of the NSF Women and Minorities Report

Denice D. Denton, University of Washington

Diversifying Science and Engineering

Bio

Break: 10:30am

Panel 2: Research University Experiences

Chair and first discussant: Daniel L. Goroff, Harvard University and SEWP

10:45am-12:15pm

Barbara J. Grosz, Harvard

Women in Science and Engineering at Harvard

Bio

Nancy Hopkins, MIT

Women in Science and Engineering at MIT

Linda Hamilton Krieger, UC Berkeley

Women in Science: Equal Employment and Educational Opportunity Law

12:15

Linda Hamilton Krieger, UC Berkeley

Implicit Bias & the Female/Science Disassociation

Lunch: 12:30 pm

Lawrence Summers, President, Harvard University

Faculty Diversity: Research Agenda

Shirley Malcom, American Association for the Advancement of Science

"Standing Our Ground in the Post-Michigan Era

Panel 3: Psychological and Sociological Aspects of Occupation Choice

Chair and first discussant: Paula Stephan, Georgia State University and SEWP

2:00-3:30pm

Catherine D. Good, Columbia University

Closing Achievement Gaps

Daniel B. Berch, National Institutes of Health

Quantitative and Scientific Reasoning: Perspectives from Cognitive Science

Bio

Yu Xie, University of Michigan and Kimberlee Shauman, Univ of California, Davis

Sociological Aspects of S&E Career Participation

Bio (Xie)

Rec.Reading 1

Bio (Shauman)

Break: 3:30

Panel 4: Learning from Successful Programs

Chair and first discussant: Anne Preston, Haverford College and SEWP

3:45-5:30pm

Sue Rosser, Georgia Institute of Technology

POWRE and ADVANCE Programs for Women

David Manderscheid, University of Iowa

Minorities in the Iowa Mathematics PhD Program

Sheila Tobias, Sloan Foundation, Science Masters Initiative

The Newest Master's: Professional Studies in the Sciences and Mathematics

Wanda E. Ward, NSF

Optimizing America's Scientific Talent: Opening Doors to Success and Broadening Participation in Science and Engineering Careers

Break: 5:30pm

Informal Reception: 6:00pm - The Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge

Dinner: 6:30pm

Student Group Representatives

Anne C. Petersen, WK Kellogg Foundation

Hybrid Vigor: Strengthening the Science and Engineering Workforces with Women and Underrepresented Minorities

Bio

SATURDAY, January 15

Panel 5: Academic Employment Issues

Chair and first discussant: Charles Brown, University of Michigan and NBER

8:30-10:15am

Catherine Weinberger, UC Santa Barbara

Is the Science and Engineering Workforce Drawn from the Far Upper Tail of the Math Ability Distribution?

Presentation

Donna J. Nelson, University of Oklahoma

National Analysis of Science and Engineering Diversity at Research Universities

Rec.Reading 1

Cathy Trower, Harvard University

Portrait of an Intractable Problem

Bio

Rec.Reading 1

Ronald Oaxaca, University of Arizona

Faculty Salary Determination at a Research I University

Bio

Rec.Reading 1

Break: 10:15am

Panel 6: Non-Academic Employment Issues

Chair and first discussant: George Borjas, Harvard University and NBER

10:30-12:15am

Kristen Roby, Microsoft

Recruiting Scientists and Engineers

William Berry, U.S. Department of Defense

National Security Needs for Scientists and Engineers

Bio

Kjersten Bunker Whittington, Stanford University

Employment Sectors as Opportunity Structures: The Effects of Location on Male and Female Commercial Dissemination

Bio

Rec.Reading 1

Sharon Levin, U of Missouri, St. Louis, and Paula Stephan, Georgia State University

Leaving Careers in IT: Differences in Retention by Gender and Minority

Lunch: 12:15pm

David Goldston, House Committee on Science

Congressional Viewpoints on S&E Representation

Bio

Adjourn: 2:00pm