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Limited Bibliography of Useful Work on Diversity in Physics


Note: There is a huge literature on diversity in physics. These are a small number of works that we have found particularly useful.

Atherton, Timothy J., Barthelemy, Ramon S., Deconinck, Wouter, Falk, Michael L., Garmon, Savannah, Long, Elena, Plisch, Monica, Simmons, Elizabeth H., and Reeves, Kyle “LGBT Climate in Physics: Building an Inclusive Community,” American Physical Society, College Park, MD, 2016.

Ivie, Rachel, and White, Susan, "Is There a Land of Equality for Physicists? Results from the Global Survey of Physicists," Physics in Canada, September 2015, https://www.aip.org/statistics/reports/there-land-equality-physicists.

Ivie, Rachel, Anderson, Garrett, and White, Susan, “African Americans & Hispanics among Physics & Astronomy Faculty: Results from the 2012 Survey of Physics & Astronomy Degree-Granting Departments,” July 2014, https://www.aip.org/statistics/reports/african-americans-hispanics-among-physics-astronomy-faculty-0.

Ivie, Rachel, White, Susan, Garrett, Arnell, and Anderson, Garrett, “Women among Physics & Astronomy Faculty: Results from the 2010 Survey of Physics Degree-Granting Departments,” August 2013, https://www.aip.org/statistics/reports/women-among-physics-astronomy-faculty.

Ivie, Rachel, and Tesfaye, Casey Langer, "Women in physics: A tale of limits," Physics Today, February 2012, https://www.aip.org/statistics/reports/global-survey-physicists.

Monosson, Emily, ed., Motherhood, the Elephant in the Laboratory: Women Scientists Speak Out, ILR Press, 2010.

Moss-Racusin, Corinne A., Dovidio, John F., Brescoll, Victoria L., Graham, Mark J., and Handelsman, Jo, “Science faculty’s subtle gender biases favor male students,” PNAS, 109, pp. 16474–16479, 2012.

Pollack, Eileen, The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science is Still a Boys Club, Beacon Press, 2015.

Wennerås, Christine, and Wold, Agnes . “Nepotism and Sexism in Peer Review.” Nature 387: 341-343, 1997.