Reports

Nepotism and sexism in peer-review
Wenneras C, Wold A (1997) Nature 347, 341–343
http://www.eb.tuebingen.mpg.de/women/papers/nepotism.html

A Study on the Status of Women Faculty in Science at MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA USA (1999)
http://web.mit.edu/fnl/women/women.pdf

National Science Foundation, Division of Science Resources Studies. How large is the gap in salaries of male and female engineers? July 26, 1999 (NSF 99-352).

Promoting excellence through mainstreaming gender equality. A report from the ETAN Expert Working Group on Women in Science (2000)
http://www.cordis.lu/improving/women/documents.htm

EC Communication: Mobilising women to enrich European research
http://www.cordis.lu/improving/women/communication.htm

Palomba R (2000) Figlie di Minerva - Primo rapporto sulle carriere femminili negli Enti Pubblici di Ricerca italiani. Franco Angeli Editore, Milano, pp 187.

Helsinki Group National Reports on the situation of women in science in Europe
http://www.cordis.lu/improving/women/reports.htm

Advice

The Athena Guide to Good Practice 1999-2002

EMBO booklet
The glass ceiling for women in the life sciences
http://www.embo.org/projects/women/intro.html

EMBO position paper on women in the life sciences (pdf)
http://www.embo.org/projects/women/women_position_paper.pdf

Women in the Life Sciences: Tools for Successful Research Careers
Karolinska Institutet
http://www.ki.se/wistool

Articles

Payne, D. (2002) Bridging the gender gap: how to stop women leaving research.
The ELSO Gazette, Issue 12 (December, 2002)
(http://www.the-elso-gazette.org/magazines/issue12/features/features2.asp),

Torkar, M. (2003) More equal than others: overcoming gender bias in German science.
The ELSO Gazette, Issue 16, (November, 2003)
(http://www.the-elso-gazette.org/magazines/issue16/news/news7.asp)

Neugebauer, K.M. 2006. Keeping Tabs on the Women: Life Scientists in Europe: PLoS Biology 4:e97.
(http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=1435409)

Nadls S (1999) Women scientists unite to battle cowboy culture. Nature 398, 361

Lawler A (1999) Tenured women battle to make it less lonely at the top. Science 286, 1272–1278

Abbot A (2000) Italian women meet glass ceiling in the lab. Nature 408, 890–891

Malcom SM (1999) Fault lines. Science 284, 1271

DATABASES AND DIRECTORIES OF WOMEN IN SCIENCE

 Database of Expert Women in the Molecular Life Sciences

FemConsult database (only in German)
http://www.cews.uni-bonn.de/femconsult/

FEM_DAT
http://www.femdat.ch 
A Swiss-wide database of female scientists and experts in various fields, made available by FEMWISS and SAS, also offers the possibility to find mentors.

EC Directory of Networks of Women Scientists 2003
http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/science-society/
women-science/nows/index_en.cfm

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=1435409