2000 Mini-Convention
The Women in Science and Technology (WIST) initiative is led by five co-chairs: Connie Chan, PhD; Mary Beth Kenkel, PhD; Nancy Russo, PhD; Cheryl Travis, PhD; and Melba Vasquez, PhD. Its activities are coordinated across the Education, Science, and Public Interest Directorates. This mini-convention took place during the 2000 APA Convention in Washington, DC, and addressed the following issues:
- Challenges to women in science and technology;
- The impact of information technology on girls and women;
- Access to technology over the developmental life span;
- Diversity in women's perspectives about and contributions to science and technology; and
- Methodological contributions in assessing system environments and gender impact.
WIST 2000 Mini-Convention Program
| "Technology and Gender Equity: What Works?" |
| WIST Co-chair: |
Connie S. Chan, PhD, College of Public and Community Service, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA 02125 |
| Chair: |
Connie S. Chan, PhD |
| Presenter: |
Marcia C. Linn, PhD, Education in Mathematics, Science, and Technology, Graduate School of Education, 4611 Tolman Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-1670 "Technology and Gender Equity: What Works?" |
| Discussant: |
Janet Shibley Hyde, PhD, Chair, Department of Psychology, Helen Thompson Woolley Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies, University of Wisconsin, 1202 West Johnson Street, Madison, WI 53706 (gender equity and math) |
| Date/Time: |
Friday, August 4; 9:00 - 10:50 a.m. |
| "The Feminization of Technology: Girls, Women and the Information Technologies" |
| WIST Co-chair: |
Mary Beth Kenkel, PhD, California School of Professional Psychology - Fresno, 5130 E. Clinton Way, Fresno, CA 93727 |
| Chair: |
Mary Beth Kenkel, PhD |
| Presenters: |
Sandra L. Calvert, PhD, Children & Media Project, Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, 37th & O Streets, NW, Washington, DC 20057
"The Internet: Is Cyber Space for All Girls?"
Dorothy Bennett, MS, and Cornelia Brunner, PhD, Education Development Center/Center for Children and Technology, 96 Morton Street, New York, NY 10014
"Gender and Technological Desire: Alternative Visions for Girls and Technology"
Marlene M. Maheu, PhD, California School of Professional Psychology - San Diego, 106 Thorn Street, San Diego, CA 92103
"Women's Telehealth: Women Worldwide are Empowered by the Internet" |
| Date/Time: |
Saturday, August 5; 9:00 - 10:50 a.m. |
| "Advocating for Women in Science: Reflections from the Front Lines" |
| WIST Co-chair: |
Nancy Felipe Russo, PhD, Regents Professor, Department of Psychology - Box 1104, Arizona State University, Box 1104, Tempe, AZ 85287-1104 |
| Chair: |
Nancy Felipe Russo, PhD |
| Presenters: |
Bernice Sandler, 4242 East West Highway #619, Chevy Chase, MD 20015 (activities and issues that emerged in the early seventies in the fight to pass Title IX of the Educational Amendments)
Janet Welch Brown, Visiting Fellow, World Resources Institute, 1746 Q Street, NW, Washington, DC 20009 (barriers and strategies involved in coalition building across the disciplines and organizing to affect public policy related to the gender ethnicity, and disability of scientists)
Cora Marrett, PhD, Provost, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01002 |
| Date/Time: |
Saturday, August 5; 1:00 - 2:50 p.m. |
| "Researching the Status of Women: Methods for Assessing and Revising Systems" |
| WIST Co-chair: |
Cheryl Brown Travis, PhD, Psychology Department, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN |
| Chair: |
Helen Farmer, PhD, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL |
| Presenters: |
Louise Fitzgerald, PhD, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
"Measuring Sexual Harassment" (organizational climate and culture may be a significant factor in the nature and incidence of sexually harassing behavior)
Barbara Bergmann, PhD, Professor Emerita of Economics, University of Maryland & American University, Washington, DC
"Getting Sex Out of the Paycheck" (getting rid of sex discrimination in salaries on campus requires data gathering, statistical analysis, and then getting the institution to make changes in current salaries and in salary-setting procedures)
Carol Dwyer, PhD, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ
"Testing and Gender Fair Assessment" (explores achievement more broadly by examining a wider variety of data and examines the uses and abuses of cut scores)
Merry Bullock, PhD, Science Affairs, American Psychological Association, Washington, DC
"The Role of Professional Associations in Advancing the Status of Women" (the roles of professional associations as catalyst and actor is discussed since associations can serve many functions in addressing the status of women as producers and users of science and technology)
Cheryl Brown Travis, PhD
"Detecting Sexism: Examples from Health Care" (addresses methodologies and concepts that can be applied to health care programs and policies with respect to women as potential beneficiaries) |
| Discussants: |
Helen Farmer, PhD, University of Illinois
Angela Ginorio, PhD, Northwest Center for Research on Women, University of Washington 35-4345, Seattle, WA 98195-4345 |
| Date/Time: |
Friday, August 4; 2:00 - 3:50 p.m. |
"Diverse Perspectives and Contributions of Women to Science and Technology"
(the premise of this symposium is that the presence of women, including women and men of color, with disabilities, who may be gay or lesbian, and other diversities, is highly additive to science and technology) |
| WIST Co-chair: |
Melba Vasquez, PhD, Vasquez and Associates Mental Health Services, Austin, TX |
| Chair: |
Melba Vasquez, PhD |
| Presenters: |
Angela Ginorio, PhD, Northwest Center for Research on Women, University of Washington, Seattle, WA: "Access Issues to Science and Technology for Diverse Women"
Marcia Scherer, PhD, Institute for Matching Person & Technology, Webster, NY: "The Different Perspectives Women with Disabilities Bring to Technology Use"
Marigold Linton, PhD, American Indian Outreach, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS: "Time and Memory: An American Indian Perspective" |
| Discussants: |
Ruby Takanishi, PhD, Foundation for Child Development, New York, NY; and Diane Scott-Jones, PhD, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA and National Science Foundation, Washington, DC |
| Date/Time: |
Friday, August 4; 11:00 a.m. - 12:50 p.m. |
| Invited Address: Gender, Science, and the Decade of Behavior |
| Presenter: |
Jacquelyn White, PhD, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC |
| Date/Time: |
Saturday, August 5; 11:00 - 11:50 a.m. |
| Invited Address: Transforming Higher Education - Toward a More Inclusive and Humanistic Culture |
| Presenter: |
Helen S. Austin, PhD, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA |
| Date/Time: |
Sunday, August 6; 12:00 - 12:50 p.m. |
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