PolicyMic on a recent Wharton study suggesting
that professors are more likely to ignore emails requesting mentorship when the emails appear to be
sent by women/minorities:
Blanco, Marcie (2014). Wharton Study Shows the Shocking
Result When Women and Minorities Email Their Professors. PolicyMic. Retrieved from http://www.policymic.com/
articles/88731/wharton-study-shows-the-shocking-resultwhen-women-and-minorities-email-their-professors
Christy Chandler on the importance of mentorship,
in which she observes that women often struggle to
find mentors:
Chandler, Christy (1996). Mentoring and Women in Academia: Reevaluating the Traditional Model. NWSA Journal
(8.3), 79-100.
(Available online: http://web.mit.edu/cortiz/www/Diversity/MentoringAndWomenInAcademia.pdf)
A Sociologists for Women in Society blog post about
why there are more women in biology than in physics:
Ecklund, Elaine H (2013). Why scientists think there
are more women in biology than physics. Gender & Society. Retrieved from http://gendersociety.wordpress.
com/2013/09/13/why-scientists-think-there-are-morewomen-in-biology-than-physics/