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I hope to focus on the Women in positions of power, Sexism in academia, and Publish or perish pages.

Annotated Bibliography:

1.    Curtis, John. “Persistent Inequity: Gender and Academic Employment.” American Association of University Professors. 2011.

This source discusses research published by the American Association of University Professors, and it offers a wide variety of quantitative data. It offers statistics on the percentage undergraduates who are women, and the percentage of full time professors who are women. The diversity in the statistics allows me to connect dots between multiple facts and highlight the role of sexism in academia. In my wiki article, the reputable statistics serve as a neutral introduction paragraph.

2.    Feeney, Mary K, Margarita Bernal, and Lauren Bowman. "Enabling Work? Family-Friendly Policies And Academic Productivity For Men And Women Scientists." Science & Public Policy, vol. 41, no. 6, 2014, pp. 750-764. Academic Search Complete. Web. 27 Oct. 2016.

This source examines 150 research universities in order to investigate the relationship between productivity in STEM fields and family-friendly policies. Academic STEM fields typically do not permit flexibility for childbearing and childcare, and the career progression of women academics is stifled. The research concludes that women working at universities with generous leave policies have a higher publication rate than women at universities with less generous policies. Additionally, university that offer onsite childcare correlate with increased productivity among male and female researchers. This source provides quantitative data that will help me examine the role of motherhood on women academics, and it also discusses how family friendly policies, like FMLA, affect universities.

3.    Ghiasi, Gita, Vincent Larivière, and Cassidy R. Sugimoto. "On The Compliance Of Women Engineers With A Gendered Scientific System." Plos ONE, vol. 10, no. 12, 2015, pp. 1-19. Academic Search Complete, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0145931.

This source examines 679,338 engineering articles published between 2008 and 2013, and it analyzed the collaborative networks among 974,837 authors. The researchers used collaboration patterns and citation rates of articles to study the underrepresentation of women in engineering. Women in engineering represent 20% of the productivity, and they tend to receive less credit (measured by citations) for the work they publish. This article is a vital quantitative source for my research, because it has a large sample base and nearly irrefutable data. This source is limited, because, like many of my other sources, it only examines bias in STEM related fields.

4.    Kauffman, Donna R., and Frances J. Perry. "Institutionalized Sexism In Universities: The Case Of Geographically Bound Academic Women." NWSA Journal, vol. 1, no. 4, 1989, pp. 644. Academic Search Complete.

This source does not present any numerical data; instead, it discusses the personal histories of women at three universities in order to illustrate the effect that university priorities and policies have on women. Academic institutions view geographic relocation as professional behavior that is sometimes imperative to achieving occupational success. This source illustrates how many women are geographically anchored, often by family ties, thus are put at a disadvantage in academic jobs. This source offers a personal, candid glance at how systemic bias in academia affects women and their families. It also offers a unique view on how geography, motherhood, and career progress are intertwined.

5.    Patton, Tracey Owens. "Reflections Of A Black Woman Professor: Racism And Sexism In Academia." Howard Journal Of Communications, vol. 15, no. 3, 2004, pp. 185-200. Academic Search Complete, doi:101080/10646170490483629.

This source uses the theory of Articulation and Hegemony to explicate the disadvantaged position of women, particularly non-white women, in academia. The theory of articulation views speech itself as a political act, and it links to hegemony because one’s language choice can either perpetuate or challenge systemic marginalization in academic institutions. This source provides a unique perspective to my research. Not only does it offer an intersectional perspective on sexism and racism in academia, but also it looks at these problems through a series of sociological theories and narrative experiences.

6.    Pezzoni, Michele, et al. "Gender And The Publication Output Of Graduate Students: A Case Study." Plos ONE, vol. 11, no. 1, 2016, pp. 1-12. Academic Search Complete, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0145146.

This source examines the relationship between the gender of graduate students and the gender of their advisors. Students with female advisors tend to publish more than students with male advisors, and female students with male advisors publish 8.5% less than average. The study concludes that gender pairing matters. This study provides statistics on graduate students that I don’t include in my research anywhere else; however, the study examines a limited amount of students at Cal Tech University. This means that the study cannot establish causality, and cannot be applied to other universities or fields of study.

7.    Sarsons, Heather. “Gender Differences in Recognition of Group Work”. Harvard University. 2015.

This source analyzes the publication records of economists at top universities over the past 40 years, and found that female economists publish work as frequently as their male cohorts, yet their tenure prospects are less than half that of men. Women receive comparable credit to men when they solo author their work or coauthor with other female economist, implying that tenure prospects decrease due to lack of credit given to women not the quality of their work. This source is valuable to my research because it offers quantitative and qualitative data in the field of economics, whereas most of my sources are limited to STEM fields. This source is limited by the fact that it is a working paper and has not yet been peer reviewed.

8.    Whittington, Kjersten Bunker. "Mothers Of Invention: Gender, Motherhood, And New Dimensions Of Productivity In The Science Profession." Work & Occupations, vol. 38, no. 3, 2011, pp. 417-456. Academic Search Complete, doi:10.1177/0730888411414529.

This source analyses patenting patterns in academic research, primarily in science fields. Whittington concludes that women patent research less than men, even when controlling for variables such as job position, age, experience, access to resources, and others. Motherhood is the most prominent variable that causes the differences between men and women scientists; while men with children maintain a predicted patenting probability of 0.12, women with children have a predicted patenting probability of 0.07, a percent difference of 57%. This research is useful to me because it examines how gender bias pervades publishing into the field of patenting research.

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