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www.fourthbucket.org Dedicated to an examination of the appropriateness of collegiality -- the fourth bucket -- as a criterion of tenure and promotion of faculty in colleges and universities.
www.stange- support.org Margit Stange Support Committee
Charging that her failure to win a tenured position in the UC Davis English Department stems from gender and age bias, Margit Stange, with her attorneys Dan Siegel and Ann Weills, has filed a federal bias suit against UC.
http://www.gender-equity.org Colleen Crangle´s sex discrimination case against Stanford University.
http://www.seekpeace.com/KUSRVC The acronym stands for Kansas University Sexism and Racism Victims Coalition. This site documents promotion and tenure cases against the University of Kansas. Many resources, among them, Chilly Climate for women in academic references: http://dynamic.uoregon.edu/%7Ejjf/chillyclimate.html.

Tenure denial accounts

www.phds.org/Reading/TenureChase/index.htm has an account of how a male mathematician was denied tenure at Kenyon College, vindicated and denied again. His reflections on strategies for gaining tenure might be useful to those beginning a tenure-track job.
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/eon/evidence/berkowitz.html documents a tenure denial at Harvard.

Writings on the situation of women in academe

http://chronicle.merit.edu/free/v48/i07/07b00701.htm is an essay, "Men Were the Only Models I Had," by Carolyn Heilbrun, Avalon Professor in the Humanities Emerita, who taught at Columbia University for 33 years and writes mysteries under the name of Amanda Cross. The essay is a reflection on her career in the academy. It begins with a quotation from Virginia Woolf: The critic of the opposite sex will be genuinely puzzled and surprised by an attempt to alter the current scale of values, and will see in it not merely a difference of view, but a view that is weak, or trivial, or sentimental, because it differs from their own.

Organizations

Association for Women in Science AWIS is dedicated to the achievement of equity and the full participation of women in all areas of science and technology. It has a bi-monthly Washington Wire consisting of news concerning women in science at: www.awis.org/wire.html. The January 31 Wire has several links to accounts of the MIT meeting (see Nine Universities Address Sex Inequity), including http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/nr/2001/gender.html.
http://www.ebawis.org East Bay (California) chapter of AWIS.
The Global Alliance (www.globalalliancesmet.org) is committed to diversifying the science and technology workforce. Its Web site includes a link to the Women in Engineering Programs and Advocates Network (WEPAN) indexed bibliography on women in science and engineering. The Global Alliance has a bibliography of its own with categories that include "faculty" and "academe."
Feminists Against Academic Discrimination (F.A.A.D.) helps women faculty, especially those associated with women's studies programs and departments, who are subjected to different types of academic discrimination, including but not limited to discrimination on the basis of sex/gender, race/ethnicity, marital status, disability, or sexual orientation.
The Caltech Women´s Center (http://www.womenscenter.caltech.edu/) was founded in 1993 to work for the advancement of women in science and engineering. The Center works to supports the central mission of the California Institute of Technology, which is to promote the education and development of all scientists and engineers. The Caltech Women´s Center operates as a central meeting place, information resource, program center, and support for the entire Caltech community.
Equal Rights Advocates (ERA). ERA is a womenB4s law center in San Francisco that works to achieve women´s economic security through litigation, public education, legislative advocacy, public analysis, and advice and counseling. One of its foci is improving the conditions of womenB4s employment. ERA was co-signer of the amici curiae brief in support of Diane ReifschneiderB4s appeal of her 1998 trail decision (see Fall 1999 Newletter). The brief was writen by ERA attorney, Rose Fua.
AAUP, the American Association of University Professors the only national organization committed solely to college and university faculty members. Founded in 1915, AAUP defends academic freedom and tenure, advocates collegial governance, and develops policpolicy statements, guidelines and resources on equity in pay for female faculty, work/family, affirmative action, sexual harassment, and Title IX.
Oregon Chapter of the American Association of University Professors.
AAUW The American Association of University Women is a national organization that promotes education and equity for all women and girls. Our commitment to these issues is reflected by the AAUW public policy program.
ACLU
The American Civil Liberties Union is the nation´ s foremost advocate of individual rights -- litigating, legislating, and educating the public on a broad array of issues affecting individual freedom in the United States.
CASE
The Council for Advancement and Support of Education. The international education association serving professionals in the disciplines of alumni relations, communications, and philanthropy.
The Equity Center
...the Equity Center is committed to assist public school personnel to embrace the key concepts of equity and help them eliminate bias and discrimination ...
The Gender Equity Department is striving to insure equal access to education, careers, and success for all people, regardless of gender or race.
Equity Online
The national Women´ s Educational Equity Act (WEEA) Equity ResourceCenter works to improve educational, social, and economic outcomes for women and girls.
Equity links!
Massive list of links for equity on the web!
NCPE
The National Committee on Pay Equity is a membership coalition of over 170 organizations, including labor unions; women´ s and civil rights groups; religious, professional, legal and educational associations; and state and local pay equity networks; and individual men and women working to eliminate sex and race based wage discrimination.
Feminist.com
FEMINIST.COM is about empowering women to network, take action and become informed and we hope our site will offer the opportunities to set out on that rewarding odyssey.
First Principles What we stand for in education, what we will fight for, what is going well and what we must change. A new report on higher education.
NOW
The National Organization for Women ( NOW ) main web site.
Sexual Harassment Law Firms.com
Description: Find a lawyer or a law firm specializing in sexual harassment law. cases including hostile work environment, quid pro quo, casting couch, sexual discrimination, ambit of the Human Rights Act, sexual harassment.

University of California

http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/regents/meetings.html gives the dates and agendas of UC Regents meetings. These meetings are broadcast live via the Internet. Meetings also include time for public comment, see http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/regents/pubcom.html.

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The U.S. EEOC
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Our mission is to ensure equality of opportunity by vigorously enforcing federal legislation prohibiting discrimination in employment. It uses investigation, conciliation, litigation, coordination, regulation in the federal sector, and education, policy research, and provision of technical assistance to achieve this end.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the principal fact- finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics.