Mary Beth Ruskai

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Gender, Women and Science

1. Open Letter on Feminism in Science: Letter to the editor of the Newsletter of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) 16(3), 4-6 (May-June, 1986) Download pdf

• Feature article in the Gazette of the Committee on the Status of Women in Physics (CSWP) 6(2), 2-4 (July, 1986) Download pdf
• Replies published in
  • The AWM Newsletter 16(6), 6-16 (November-December, 1986) Download pdf
  • The CSWP Gazette 6(3), 1-3 (October-November, 1986) Download pdf
    

2. Gender and Science, an expanded version of an invited talk for the AWM panel on Gender and Science at the AMS-MAA joint summer mathematics meeting (Univ. of Utah, August, 1987), AWM Newsletter 17(6), 5-10 (November-December, 1987)

• Full panel Download pdf
• Text of original remarks Download pdf
  

3. How Stereotypes about Science Affect the Participation of Women: invited talk in panel Women in Physics: Why So Few? APS/AAPT/AAAS meeting (San Francisco, January 1989)

• Text of remarks Download pdf
• CSWP commentary on the panel Download pdf
• REJECTED by NWSA correspondence Download pdf

4. Why Women Are Discouraged from Studying Science:

• The Scientist 4(5), 17 & 19 (March. 5, 1990) Visit article in The Scientist
• Reprinted in CSWP Gazette 10(2), 2-4 (June, 1990) Download pdf
  

5. Are There Innate Cognitive Gender Differences? Some Comments on the Evidence in Response to a Letter from M. Levin:

• Guest comment for Amer. J. Phys. 59, 11-14 (1991) Download pdf Visit article in The American Journal of Physics
• Reprinted in CSWP Gazette 11(2), 1-5 (April, 1991)
• Reprinted in Physics Teachers CD–ROM Toolkit
  

6. More comments on the Math SAT Gender Gap: AWM Newsletter 21(2), 16-18 (March-April, 1991); excerpts reprinted in CSWP Gazette 11(2), 5 (April, 1991).

7. Are "Feminist Perspectives" in Mathematics Feminist?

• In Gender and Mathematics Education Proceedings of an ICMI Study in Höör, Sweden, October 1993 ed.by B. Grevholm and G. Hanna pp. 386-389 (Lund Univ. Press, 1995)
• Revision in the The Flight from Science and Reason: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 775, 437-441 (1996) Download pdf
  

8. Myths about the Role of Marital Status in Career Advancement; AWM Newsletter 24(3), 9–11 (May-June, 1994) Download pdf

9. Contribution to Panel on Trends in US Mathematics pp. 126-129, Proceedings of the NSA Women in Mathematics Symposium (National Security Agency, November, 1993) Download pdf

10. Time for Advancement, MAA Focus 14(6), 25-28 (December 1994)

• Color, readable with Adobe Acrobat Download pdf
• Black & white, readable on browser Download pdf
  
  
• Download video of remarks 10 years after. Clip is from after-dinner video at Barry Simon's 60th birthday celebration.
  

11. Reviews of Educating Women for Success in Science and Mathematics by S.V. Rosser and B. Kelly, and two related books by J. Sanders Download pdf

Solicited by NWSA Journal, but REJECTED Download pdf

12. Remarks to the Mathematics and Physical Science Group at the December 1995 NSF Conference on Women and Science Download pdf

13. Thoughts on Affirmative Action: AWM Newsletter 26(2), 10–15 (March-April, 1996) Download pdf / Article text Download pdf

14. Response to "Induction vs Deduction": CSWP Gazette 23(1), p  6 (Spring, 2004)

15. Op-Ed comments on Summers remarks

• Submitted to, but not accepted by, Boston Globe
• Published, with an addendum on data in AWM Newsletter 35(3), 6-8 (May-June, 2005) Download pdf
  

16. Chair of AMS-ASA-AWM-IMS-MAA-NCTM-SIAM Joint Committee on Women in the Mathematical Sciences, 1993-95

• 1993 report Download pdf
• 1994 report Download pdf
• 1995 report Download pdf

17. Letter to the NY Times on Women Who Choose Engineering in response to an Op-Ed entitled How to Attract Female Engineer.

18. A Few Bad Guys in the Lab Can Cause Women a Lot of Harm Contribution requested by NY Time for its Room for Debate discussion on Sexism in Science (June 11, 2015).

See also:

• Association for Women in Mathematics


• Marie Vitulli's Women In Math


• Some of these issues are also discussed in papers on my Other Professional Activities page, particularly items #7 and #8 in the first section and #8 "The Decline of Science" in the AMS Notices.


• Seminar talks on the subject of Gender and Science.