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Dana Young, "Women Vastly Underrepresented in Academia" Women's eNews (February 13, 2004).
Location: http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/1672
Abstract: Reports on Donna Nelson's Study of college faculty positions helf be female and minority males at the nation's top math, science and engineering departments. Nelson, a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oklohoma, presents data that shows "pipeline issues" do not explain the small percentages of women and minority faculty in top math, science and engineering departments. She contrasts data on faculty composition with that on Ph.D. attainment by women and minorities.

Frances Trix and Carolyn Psenka,"Exploring the Color of Glass: Letters of Recommendation for Female and Male Medical Faculty ." Discourse & Society 14, no. 2 (2003): 191-220.
Location: Available online for the UW community through Ingenta
Abstract: This study examines over 300 letters of recommendation for medical faculty at a large American medical school in the mid-1990s, using methods from corpus and discourse analysis, with the theoretical perspective of gender schema from cognitive psychology. Letters written for female applicants were found to differ systematically from those written for male applicants in the extremes of length, in the percentages lacking in basic features, in the percentages with doubt raisers (an extended category of negative language, often associated with apparent commendation), and in frequency of mention of status terms. Further, the most common semantically grouped possessive phrases referring to female and male applicants ('her teaching,' 'his research') reinforce gender schema that tend to portray women as teachers and students, and men as researchers and professionals.

Rhea Steinpreis et al., "The Impact of Gender on the Review of the Curricula Vitae of Job Applicants and Tenure Candidates: A National Empirical Study" Sex Roles 41(October 1999): 509-528.
Location: Available online through Proquest Research Library
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to determine some of the factors that influence outside reviewers and search committee members when they are reviewing curricula vitae, particularly with respects to the gender of the name on the vitae. The participants in this study were 238 male and female academic psychologists

Wenneras, Christine, and Agnes Wold. "Nepotism and Sexism in Peer-Review" Nature 387 (May 22, 1997): 341-343. (Reprinted in Mary Barbercheck et al., editors, Women, Science, and Technology: A Reader in Feminist Science Studies (New York: Routledge, 2001), 46-52.)
Abstract: Swedish study showing gender bias in peer review process of awarding fellowships.

Margo Brouns, "The Gendered Nature of assessment Procedures in Scientific Research Funding: The Dutch Case," Higher Education in Europe 25(2000): 193-199.
Location: Available online through Academic Search Elite
Abstract: This article discusses the results of a study on gender bias in assessment procedures in the two major institutions for scientific grants in The Netherlands: the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research (NOW) and the Royal Dutch Academy for the Sciences (KNAW). The analysis indicated that women applicants were evaluated differently from male applicants. However, women were not discriminated against in all disciplines. On the contrary, in some disciplines they received a bonus. One of the major conclusions is that gender matters, but in different ways within the different disciplines.