• Strategic Planning Process Implemented
• International Women's conference, London, March 2007
• Girls Missing in Science and Engineering
• Tenure: Is It Really Outmoded?
• High-level round table of the Commission on the Status of Women
• Winner of the Jan Tinbergen Prize
• Winner of the IASS Cochran-Hansen Prize
• Winners of the American Statistical Association Survey Research Methods Section 2005 Student Paper Competitition
• Young Statistician  Award
• Janet L. Norwood Award
• Participation of Women in the Joint Statistical Meetings
• UK Senior Civil Service Women’s Network Views
• International Fellowships and Grants given by the American Association of University Women
• Writing Successful Grant Proposals
• Statistics Education Research Journal (SERJ) website
• Women and Men in Europe and North America
• Women and Science

International Women's conference in London, March 2007 by Jane Longhurst article

Girls Missing in Science and Engineering.  According to a recent study by the National Academies' Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP), women are a small portion of the science and engineering faculty members at research universities, and they typically receive fewer resources and less support than their male colleagues. The report, Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering, concluded that the representation of women in leadership positions in academic institutions, scientific and professional societies, and honorary organizations is low relative to the numbers of women qualified to hold these positions. The committee attributes this discovery largely to unintentional biases and outmoded institutional structures that hinder the access and advancement of women not the lack of talent. Go to www7.nationalacademier.org/womeninacademe/ to view more information on the study.

Tenure: Is It Really Outmoded?  "Recently, there has been an increase in the numbers of faculty hired on limited term contracts of five years or less and an increase in the numbers of part-time temporary faculty hired. Is this an indication that demanding a “life lasting” job might not be the most realistic approach in an academic career? Read more about issues of tenure for women in sciences in " Tenure: Is it really outmoded?" , by Tena I. Katsaounis. PhD, Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University, Ovalwood 383, 1760 University Drive, Mansfield OH 4906, katsaounis.1@osu.edu.
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High-level roundtable of the Commission on the Status of Women on gaps and challenges in measuring progress in implementation, in the context of the review and appraisal of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly.   March 2004, United Nations, New York City.  Report submitted by the co-chairpersons Kyung-wha Kang (Republic of Korea) and Katherine K. Wallman (USA).  article

Winner of the Jan Tinbergen Prizes:  2005 – Kavitha Bhat (India), Romain Glele Kakai (Benin), Mayna Y. Ogay (Ukraine); 2001 – Madhuchanda Bhattacharjee

Winner of the IASS Cochran-Hansen Prize.   2005 – Maiki Ilves (Estonia);   2001 – Kristiina Rajaleid.

Winners of the American Statistical Association Survey Research Methods Section 2005 Student Paper Competitition.  Two women among the five winners:  Gabriele Beissel Durrant (University of Southampton, Imputation of Missing Hourly Pay Data Using Data Augmentation in the Case of Nonignorable Item-Nonresponse), and Kelly Dixon (University of Maryland Joint Program in Survey Methodology, Errors associated with period reporters in Estimates of Retail Trade).

Young Statistician  Award.   2005 First Runner-up.  Dr. Gabriele Beissel-Durrant, United Kingdom.  Gabriele Durrant is a Senior Research Fellow at the Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute and the National Centre for Research Methods, University of Southampton, U.K.  She completed a Ph.D. under Professor Christopher Skinner at the University of Southampton.  She has research interests in design and analysis of sample surveys, measurement error, missing data and imputation, official statistics and statistical modelling in the social sciences.  She has taught various courses related to survey methods and statistical modelling, including multilevel modelling.

Janet L. Norwood Award  -  University of Alabama and the School of Public Health. 

2003 Recipient.  Dr. Nan M. Laird,  a full professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health, received the award in October 2003.  Dr. Lan received a bachelor’s degree in statistics at the University of Georgia and a Ph.D. in Statistics from Harvard University in 1975.  Since completion of her doctoral degree she has been in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health, serving as departmental chair from 1990 to 1999.  She is now the Henry Pickering Walcott Professor of Biostatistics.  Her research has made important contributions in the statistical sciences including, but not limited to, the development of statistical methods for the analysis of incomplete data, longitudinal regression, and statistical genetics.  Dr. Laird is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, the American Statistical Association, and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

2002 Recipient.  Dr. Jane Gentleman, director of the Division of Health Interview Statistics at the National center for Health Statistics, was the first recipient of the Janet L. Norwood Award.  Dr. Gentleman received her bachelor’s degree in mathematics and her master’s degree in statistics from the University of Chicago, and her doctoral degree in statistics from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.  Dr. Gentleman has served as a statistical programmer, professor, researcher, and administrator over the course of her career.  She joined the National Center for Health Statistics in 1992.  Prior to this she was assistant director for analytic methods with Statistics Canada.  Dr. Gentleman has authored numerous papers on statistical computing and a variety of other topics related to statistics, including public health, gerontology, molecular biology, and criminology.  Dr. Gentleman is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, and recipient of the 1993 Canadian Journal of Statistics Award  given by the Statistical Society of Canada for excellence, innovation, and presentati

Participation of Women in the Joint Statistical Meetings:  1996-2003, Committee Corner, AmStat News, January 2005.   article

UK Senior Civil Service Women’s Network Views relating to issues relevant to Career Advancement of Women, September 2005.  powerpoint slides |  article

International Fellowships and Grants given by the American Association of University Women.  Application deadline for the subsequent academic year is generally August 1.  Visit the website at http://www.aauw.org/3000/fdnfelgra/internat.html for more information.  More Information

Writing Successful Grant Proposals.  A useful powerpoint presentation is on the website:  http://www.aaas.org/international/eca/present.shtml. 

Statistics Education Research Journal (SERJ) website, http://fehps.une.edu.au/serj.  Most of the site is accessible to the general public.  However, access to the current and most recent issues of the journal will be restricted to IASE members.

Women and Men in Europe and North America, published by the United Nations, June 2001.  It contains 54 country profiles that reveal gender inequalities in different countries of the region.

Women and Science website contains extensive information about gender sensitive indicators.  Research on this is being carried out at the Women and Science sector of the European Commission Directorate General for Research, October 2000.