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Appendix G: List of Selected Literature
Pages 48-70

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... : 601-635. The number of youth from developing Asian nations in the US IT workforce is increasing, and an examination of the career experiences and perceptions of South Asian women compared to American women shows that social cultural and individual factors impact their career experiences.
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... Based on the data from a survey of CEOs at STEM companies, this Bayer report describes the current STEM workforce challenges identified by the survey respondents. The survey respondents agreed that a company plays a critical role in ensuring women and minorities' participation and success in science and engineering (S&E)
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... The relatively few women who receive STEM degrees are concentrated in physical and life sciences, in contrast to men, who are concentrated primarily in engineering. Women who do receive STEM degrees are less likely to work in STEM jobs than their male counterparts.
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... Using data on patenting activity and examining career characteristics of a sample of life scientists, they were able to quantify and compare gender differences in productivity across small biotechnology firms, large pharmaceutical companies, and life science departments in academia. Burke, S., and K.M.
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... The study found that companies with the highest representation of women on their top management teams experienced better financial performance. This finding was true for both financial measures analyzed in this study: Return on Equity (ROE)
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... It shows that about 40 percent of women and underrepresented minority chemists and chemical engineers say that they were discouraged from pursuing a STEM career at some point in their lives. Leading workplace barriers for the female and minority chemists and chemical engineers identified in this study include managerial bias, institutional bias, lack of professional development, limited access to networking opportunities, and a lack of advancement opportunities.
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... : 437-445. The authors examined whether gender self-schema would explain sex differences in preferences for status-based and socioemotional career satisfiers.
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... National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering. Throughout the report the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering sends a message that "the solution to America's competitiveness problem is to activate the hidden workforce of young men and women who have traditionally been underrepresented in STEM careers -- African Americans, American Indians, and Latinos." This report examines the data and data trends of male and female African-Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans in engineering at all levels of higher education and in the workforce.
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... Administrative Science Quarterly 41: 659-684. The paper explores the executive origins of firms' competitive moves by focusing on top management team characteristics, specifically on team heterogeneity.
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... The author examined the implications of diversity for workplace dynamics and business outcomes by testing eight hypotheses derived from the value-in-diversity thesis using data from the 1996-1997 National Organizations Survey. The results support hypotheses that racial and gender diversity is associated with increased sales revenue, more customers, and greater relative profits.
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... National Action Council of Minorities in Engineering. This report underscores the critical role that community colleges play in building the engineering workforce and maintaining the nation's economic competitiveness.
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... : 942-958. This study on how gender stereotypes affect negotiation performancefound that men and women confirm gender stereotypes when they are activated implicitly.
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... American Association for the Advancement of Science and Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology. This study examines the role of nontraditional educational pathways in preparing women and underrepresented minorities for the IT workforce.
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... It shows that women were behind men in measures of start-up activity and growth of their firms, which represented an untapped economic resource. This report documents the current gender gap, debunks common myths and misconceptions about women entrepreneurs, and explores ways to cultivate high-growth start-ups among women.
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... : 657-689. Using interviews with life science faculty, the authors examined mechanisms that instituted, reinforced, and reduced the gender gap in commercial science between 1975 and 2005.
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... Washington: National Academies Press. This report compiled individually authored papers from participants at the Chemical Sciences Roundtable to examine issues pertinent to the chemical and chemical engineering workforce, with an emphasis on the advancement of women in chemistry.
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... Washington: National Academies Press. This report summarizes a 2003 workshop that explored opportunities to address clinical research workforce diversity needs for 2010.
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... Nation-level implicit stereotypes predicted nation-level sex differences in 8th grade science and mathematics achievement, while self-reported stereotypes did not provide additional predictive validity of the achievement gap.
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... Palo Alto: Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology. This report reviews research and literature on technical women, the barriers they encounter in their careers, and effective recruitment and retention practices.
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... Palo Alto: Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology. This report offers a snapshot of a rarity in technology: senior technical women working at prominent Silicon Valley technology companies.
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... . This article reviews a 2007 report from the Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology, Professional Women and Minorities, which describes the increased representation of women in professional STEM fields that outpaced the increase in representation of minorities in the same fields.
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... : 38-39. C&EN's recent annual survey of women in publicly traded chemical companies finds that of 416 individuals on boards of directors for 42 chemical companies, only 12 percent were women.
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... Based on National Science Foundation data, the authors found that overall, Asian women were well represented in terms of educational attainment. However, the percentage of Asian women decreases as they move up within their institution.


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