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, 3rd 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

 

 

 

 

 

 

9:00–10:30am

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”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Denise D. Denton, University of Washington

“ Diversifying Science and Engineering”

 

 

 

 

 

Break:  10:30am

 

 

 

 

 

Panel 2: Research University Experiences

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

10:45-12:15

Barbara J. Grosz, Harvard

“Women in Science and Engineering at Harvard”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nancy Hopkins, MIT

“Women in Science and Engineering at MIT”

 

 

 

Bio

 

Rec.Reading 1

Rec.Reading 2

 Rec.Reading 3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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”

 

 

 

Bio

 

Rec.Read 1

Rec.Read 2

Rec.Read 3

Rec.Read 4

Rec.Read 5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lunch:  12:30 pm

 

 

 

Lawrence Summers, President, Harvard University

“Women and Minority Faculty”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shirley Malcom, American Association for the Advancement of Science (not confirmed)

"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)

 

Rec.Reading 1

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bio

Presentation

Rec.Reading 1

Rec.Reading 2

Rec.Reading 3

 

 

Break:  3:30

 

 

 

 

Panel 4:  Learning from Successful Programs

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

3:45-5:30pm

David Manderscheid, University of Iowa

“Minorities in the Iowa Mathematics PhD Program”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sue Rosser, Georgia Institute of Technology

“POWRE and ADVANCE Programs for Women”

 

 

 

Bio

 

Rec.Reading 1

 Rec.Reading

Rec.Reading 3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sheila Tobias, Sloan Foundation, Science Masters Initiative

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

 

 

 

Bio

 

Rec.Reading 1

Rec.Reading 2

Rec.Reading 3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

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?”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Donna J. Nelson, University of Oklahoma

“National Analysis of Science and Engineering Diversity at Research Universities”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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”

 

 

 

 

 

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”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Timothy McClees, U.S. Department of Defense (not confirmed)

“National Security Needs for Scientists and Engineers”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kjersten Bunker Whittington, Stanford University

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

“Retention of Women and Minorities in the Information Technology Workforce”

 

 

 

 

 

Lunch: 12:15pm

 

 

 

David Goldston, House Committee on Science

“Congressional Viewpoints on S&E Representation”

 

 

 

 

 

Adjourn:  2:00pm