Challenges of the Academic Journey:
A Symposium on

Women in the Sciences and Engineering at UWO
May 4-5, 2004

The conference was held and was a great success, with attendees from across the university and speakers from Canada and the United States.

Summary and Findings

Please click here for a Summary of Papers and Recommendations. (Note: Adobe Acrobat is required to access it.)

Interesting Reading:

Van Anders, Sari. 2004. Why the Academic Pipeline Leaks. Unpublished paper. Dept. of Psychology, UWO.

Duke University. Steering Committee for the Women's Initiative. 2003. Report.
Durham. N.C.: Duke University. Available at http://www.duke.edu/womens_initiative/report_report.htm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1999. A Study on the Status of Women Faculty in Science at MIT. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT. Available at http://web.mit.edu/fnl/women/women.html#The%20Study

Office of the Provost, UWO. 2000. Full-time Faculty Distribution, Appointments and Recruitment, by Gender. Available at http://www.uwo.ca/western/facgend99/facgend.pdf

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