Advocates and Allies Resources

The Straight Cis Men at A Corporate Gym Helped Save My Trans Soul

Take Action: Demand Justice For The Murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd, Among Countless Others

A Disability-Rights Consultant and Social Worker Explains How To Check Your Ableism Every Day

What is Deadnaming, and How To Avoid It

Focus on minority experiences in STEM, not just numbers. Diversity among scientists can foster better science, yet engaging and retaining a diversity of students and researchers in science has been difficult

Test Yourself for Hidden Bias 

Hidden Bias Tests measure unconscious, or automatic, biases. Your willingness to examine your own possible biases is an important step in understanding the roots of stereotypes and prejudice in our society

Implicit association tests. 

This study details how gender bias plays out in everyday workplace interactions in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). It is based on in-depth interviews with 60 women scientists of color (chiefly professors), and a survey of 557 women scientists (of all races).

The U.S. National Science Foundation is implementing and refining policies aimed at combatting harassment When we look at surveys of the scientific community, we see an overall trend: The presence of women, minorities, and other groups that have been historically subject to harassment tapers off in later career stages

This article examines the dual problems of "women don't ask" and "women don't say no" in the academic profession.

Gender bias falls into four basic patterns. Naming them makes it easier to spot them, and having a common language to describe the different types of bias makes it harder for others to shrug off or ignore complaints.

Disparities for women in medicine are well documented, and large gaps exist at high levels of leadership.¹² This begs the question: what mechanisms drive women's persistent under-representation in the most senior, visible, and celebrated ranks of the profession, and how might these be targeted? 

As part of a National Science Foundation (NSF) ADVANCE grant, North Dakota State University (NDSU) created a program of men faculty Advocates to engage in gender-equity/climate improvement efforts.

Male Advocates and Allies: Promoting Gender Diversity in Technology Workplaces (2013)

Kieran Snyder examines the double standards in the way male and female employees are evaluated.

Turning down an endowed lectureship because their gender ratio is too skewed towards males.

This article talks about how the number of women in tech is not just a pipeline problem. 

New study on online comments suggests big gap in the way men and women perceive evidence of gender bias in sciences.

The assumption is that when people realize that biases are widespread, they will be more likely to overcome them. But new research suggests that if we're not careful, making people aware of bias can backfire, leading them to discriminate more rather than less.

A revealing—and depressing—article in this month's Harvard Business Review shows that no matter how much power female executives have accrued, or how much lip service male executives might publicly pay, family issues are still seen as a female problem.

Growing evidence revealing a gender bias against women—or favoring men—within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) settings is provocative and raises questions about the extent to which gender bias may contribute to women's underrepresentation within STEM fields. 

We suggest that this race- and sex-based status and power gap persists, in part, because ethnic minority and female leaders are discouraged from engaging in diversity-valuing behavior. 

Where are the women in America's greatest scientific laboratories?

Study finds significant impact of having a female voice on the committees that put together scientific symposiums.

While women's receipt of professional awards and prizes has increased in the past two decades, men continue to win a higher proportion of awards for scholarly research than expected based on their representation in the nomination pool.

We found that the instructor whom students thought was male received higher ratings on all 12 traits, regardless of whether the instructor was actually male or female," MacNell says. "There was no difference between the ratings of the actual male and female instructors

Google's campus in Mountain View, Calif. The company, whose work force is 70 percent male, is trying to make its employees aware of how unconscious biases can affect hiring and promotion decisions. Credit...

Men are more likely to be described as a star, knowledgeable, awesome or the best professor. Women are more likely to be described as bossy, disorganized, helpful, annoying or as playing favorites.

The Science of Why Cops Shoot Young Black Men
And how to reform our bigoted brains.

The treatment of women in STEM fields has been a pretty hot topic over the past couple of years — be they in science, math, engineering, programming or other STEM fields, it seems like more women than ever are becoming increasingly vocal about the systemic sexism that exists in their fields in an effort to change it.

The following article is a discussion about violence, violence against women, and the oppression women face every day.

When participants in corporate workshops about unconscious bias are asked which of two candidates they would pick to replace a top performer in their organization, about 90% select the person described in terms related to individual initiative--the same words that turned up more often in the men's performance reviews .

STEMinist: Voices of women in science, tech, engineering, and math.

10 Things All 'Allies' Need to Know.