Women in Science Reach for the Stars at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
By Katherine A. Friedrich and Judith N. Burstyn, Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Many very capable students leave the sciences because they don't like what they perceive as the culture. That seems to disproportionately turn away women and minority students," Burstyn says. Through sharing research on inclusive teaching with science graduate students and faculty, the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning hopes to make classrooms more welcoming of diversity.

Gender and STEM Disciplines: Beyond the Barriers
By Shirley Malcolm, Daryl E. Chubin, and Eleanor Babco, American Association for the Advancement of Science
If women and minorities participated in the science and engineering workforce proportional to their presence in the general population, there would be no U.S. talent gap and no downward trend in attracting and graduating the "underrepresented majority" in science and engineering, according to Shirley Ann Jackson (2002). While there may be no shortage of science and engineering graduates, there is a shortage of U.S. women and minorities among those graduates.