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Publications: Equity/Bias in Tenure and Promotion

  1. Women & Tenure: Opportunity of a Century, AAUW Newsletter no. 12 (1989), 10M.
  2. J. Alper, The pipeline is leaking women all the way along, Science 260 no. 93/4/16 (1993), 409-411.
  3. L. Blum, Breaking the Silence [unpublished manuscript on the Jenny Harrison Berkeley Tenure Case], (1993).
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  4. L. Blum and L. Goldber, Fighting for Tenure: Another View, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 41 no. 6 (1994), 607-610.
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  5. A. Bunce, Educators urge parents to bolster girls’ interest in math and science, Christian Science Monitor, 1995, Sept. 13, (1995) 15.
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  6. A. Gibbons, Key Issue: Tenure, Science 255 no. 92/3/13 (1992), 1386-1387.
  7. A. Jackson, Fighting for Tenure: The Jenny Harrison Case Opens Pandora’s Box of Issues about Tenure, Discrimination, and the Law, Notices of the the American Mathematical Society, 41 no. 3, March 1994, 187-194.
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  8. A. Kolodny, Why feminists need tenure, The Women’s Review of Books 13 no. 5 (1996), 23-24.
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  9. S. Landau, What Happens to the Women, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter 25 no. 2 (March-April 1995), 6-7.
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  10. D. K. Magner, Debate over woman’s tenure continues at Berkeley, Chronicle of Higher Education, October 20, 1993.
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  11. D. K. Magner, A 3-year struggle against sex bias at U. of Wisconsin, Chronicle of Higher Education February 10, 1993.
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  12. L. W. Perna, Sex Differences in Faculty Tenure and Promotion: The Contribution of Family Ties, Research in Higher Ed, 46 Issue 3, (May 2005), 277-307.
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  13. M. Rochlin, Mathematics of Discrimination: Since 1986, Jenny Harrison has been fighting for tenure in the male-dominated UC Berkeley math department. She says it's a matter of sexual discrimination; the university says she’s just not good enough, L.A. Times Magazine, May 02, 1993.
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  14. M. B. Ruskai, Time for Advancement, MAA Focus December (1994), 25-28.
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  15. B. R. Sandler, Women Faculty at Work in the Classroom or Why it Still Hurts to be a Women in Labor, Communication Education 40 no. 1 (1991), 6-15.
  16. B. R. Sandler, Women Faculty at Work in the Classroom, or, Why it Still Hurts to be a Women in Labor, Center for Women Policy Studies (1993).
  17. P. Selvin, Does the Harrison Case Reveal Sexism in Math, Science 252 no. 28 (1991), 1781-1783.
  18. P. Selvin, Harrison Case: No Calm After Storm, Science 262 15 October 1993.
  19. E. Seymour, The loss of women from science, mathematics and engineering undergraduate majors: an explanatory account, Science Education 79 no. 4 (1995), 437-473.
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  20. Steinpreis, RE, Anders, KA, and Witzke, D, The impact of gender on the review of curricula vitae of job applicants and tenure candidates: A national empirical study, Sex Roles, (1999) 41 Issue 7-8, 509-528.
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  21. Tierney, William G., & Rhoads, Robert A. (1993). Enhancing promotion, tenure and beyond: Faculty socialization as a cultural process. ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Reports #6. (pp. 63-72).
  22. J. Travis, Making room for women in the culture of science, Science 260 April 16, 1993, 412-415.
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  23. J. Wallace, What the world needs now: more women in mathematics and science, Educational Leadership 46 no. 6 (1989), 46.
  24. L. Washburn-Moses, We make tenure decisions unfairly. Here’s a better way, Chronicle of Higher Ed., March 27, 2018.
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  25. J. A. Winkler, Faculty reappointment, tenure, and promotion: Barriers for women, The Professional Geographer, 2000, Wiley Online Library
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  26. K. Weisshaar, Publish and Perish: An Assessment of Gender Gaps in Promotion to Tenure in Academia, Social Forces, 96 Issue 2, 1 December 2017, Pages 529–560.
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  27. K. Weisshaar, Not by productivity alone: understanding gender gaps in promotion to tenure in academia (Work in Progress [Sociology]),