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Here you find suggested reading – reports, statistics, articles and books – on topics related to gender in physics and STEM in general. If you want to contribute to the list, please email us at mail@kvinderifysik.dk.

Articles published by KIF

News

Conference summary: The Women of NBI – Then and Now
Conference summary: KIF Annual Meeting 2024

Articles about Prominent Physicists

Hilde Levi

Article by Else Høyrup (Hoyrup), Historian of Physics Hilde Levi was a German-born Danish physicist…

Mileva Maric Einstein

Mileva Maric Einstein, the first wife of Albert Einstein, was herself a brilliant physicist and…

Kirstine Meyer

Kirstine Bjerrum Meyer was born on October 12th, 1861 in Skærbæk to Christiane Degn and…

Gender research and popular articles

Yasar & Gaihede, 2024, title: Mange kvindelige forskere overvejer at forlade Københavns Universitet
Tøfting, 2024, title: Spiller du netværksspillet? Mandlige forskere excellerer i det
Kobberup, 2024, title: Kvinderne får et solidt fodfæste i forskerverdenen
Novosad et al, 2024, title: Access to Opportunity in the Sciences: Evidence from the Nobel Laureates
Naddaf, 2024, title: Nearly 50% of researchers quit science within a decade, huge study reveals
Wright, 2024, title: Social Networks Key to LGBTQ+ Physics Students Making It Through Grad School
Järvinen & Mik-Meyer, 2023, title: At the heart or on the periphery: gender, (in)visibility and epistemic positioning in academia
Nordling, 2023, title: Falling behind: postdocs in their thirties tire of putting life on hold
Ross et al, 2022, title: Women are credited less in science than men
Andersen et al, 2021, title: Selective referencing and questionable evidence in Strumia’s paper on “Gender issues in fundamental physics.”
Andrews et al, 2021, title: Engineering students’ attitudinal beliefs by gender and student division: a methodological comparison of changes over time
Nielsen, 2020, title: Gender in academic recruitment and selection
Nielsen, 2018, title: Scientific Performance Assessments Through a Gender Lens – a Case Study on Evaluation and Selection Practices in Academia
Nielsen, 2018, title: Making gender diversity work for scientific discovery and innovation
Lunnemann et al, 2018, title: Gender Bias In Nobel Prizes
Hampton et al, 2018, title: Women Scientists Who Made Nuclear Astrophysics
White, 2018, title: Sex, gender, and physics, and the introductory physics classroom
Blue et al, 2018, title: Gender matters
Stoet et al, 2018, title: The Gender-Equality Paradox in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education
Matthíasdóttir, 2018, title: Gender Differences in Engineering Students’ Choice of Studies
Miller et al, 2018, title: The Development of Children’s Gender-Science Stereotypes: A Meta-analysis of 5 Decades of U.S. Draw-A-Scientist Studies
Neven Caplar, Sandro Tacchella, Simon Birrer, 2016, Quantitative Evaluation of Gender Bias in Astronomical Publications from Citation Counts
Traxler et al, 2016, title: Enriching gender in physics education research: A binary past and a complex future
Barthelemy et al, 2016, title: Gender discrimination in physics and astronomy: Graduate student experiences of sexism and gender microaggressions
Nielsen, 2016, title: Reasons for Leaving the Academy: a Case Study on the ‘Opt Out’ Phenomenon among Younger Female Researchers
Milkman et al, 2015, title: What happens before? A field experiment exploring how pay and representation differentially shape bias on the pathway into organizations
Nathan & Lee, 2015, title: Cultural Diversity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Firm‐level Evidence from London
Handley et al, 2015, title: Quality of evidence revealing subtle gender biases in science is in the eye of the beholder
Freeman & Huang, 2014, title: Collaboration: Strength in diversity
Reuben et al, 2014, title: How stereotypes impair women’s careers in science
Nielsen, 2013, title: Scandinavian Approaches to Gender Equality in Academia: A Comparative Study
Moss-Racusin et al, 2012, title: Science faculty’s subtle gender biases favor male students
Philips et al, 2008, title: To Disclose or Not to Disclose? Status Distance and Self-Disclosure in Diverse Environments
Trix et al, 2003, title: Exploring the Color of Glass: Letters of Recommendation for Female and Male Medical Faculty
Wennerås et al, 1997, title: Nepotism and sexism in peer-review

Recommended books

Kate Zernike, 2023, The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science
Wills et al, 2023, Women in the History of Science
Hilde G. Corneliussen, 2023, Reconstructions of Gender and Information Technology. Women Doing IT for Themselves
Joan C. Williams, 2023, Bryd Bias
Angela Saini, 2023, The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule
Pernille Bjørn, Maria Menendez-Blanco, Valeria Borsotti, 2023 Diversity in Computer Science
Poornima Luthra, 2022 The Art of Active Allyship
Naja Lind Rasmussen, Rikke Kristine Østergaard, 2022 Den Utålmodige Feminist
Øystein Gullvåg Holter, Lotta Snickare (Eds), 2022, Gender Equality in Academia
Birgitte Possing, 2021 Argumenter imod kvinder
Einersen et al, 2021 Sexism in Danish Higher Education and Research
Poornima Luthra, 2022 Diversifying Diversity
Caroline Criado Perez, 2020 Invisible Women
Eileen Drew, Siobhán Canavan, 2020 The Gender-Sensitive University
Judy Robertson, 2018 EqualBITE – Gender Euality in Higher Education
Melissa M. Terras, 2018 Picture-Book Professors
Angela Saini, 2018 Inferior
Nina Byers, Gary Williams, 2010 Out of the Shadows: Contributions of Twentieth-Century Women to Physics
Margaretha Järvinen og Nanna Mik-Meyer, 2024, Køn og karriere i akademia: bag facaden

European Commission

She Figures is published by the European Commission every three years since 2003 and shows statistics and indicators of gender in research and innovation.

World Economic Forum

Uddannelses- og Forskningsministeriet

Danmarks talentbarometer – mænd og kvinder på de danske universiteter

Tænketanken EQUALIS

Tænketanken DEA & Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond

Villum Fonden og Novo Nordisk Fonden

Paving the path for a diverse STEM-research environment (2023)

VIVE – Det Nationale Forsknings- og Analysecenter for Velfærd

Sexisme og karriereforløb på danske universiteter (2024)

Danske Universiteters handlingsplaner

Innovationsfonden

Bridging the Talent Gap in Denmark (2018)
Gender Diversity in Denmark (2018)
Kvinder er løsningen på Danmarks talentmangel (2018)
Flere videnskabsmænd skal være kvinder (2018)

UN Women

International Women’s Day initiative (2023)
UN Women status overview (2020)

European Parliament – Women of the European People’s Party

The National Girls Collaborative project (US)

Current state of STEM (2022)

International Science Council

This book reports on a three-year project (2017–2019) funded by the International Science Council and involving eleven scientific partner organizations.