What can be done within graduate education?

• Faculty need to use their contacts at peer institutions to identify qualified female undergraduates and then actively recruit them.

• When you write a letter of recommendation for a woman, list her qualifications and accomplishments and then draft the letter pretending that you are discussing a male candidate. You may find that you write a very different (and more fair) letter using this approach.

• Success begets success - to the extent that current students are treated with fairness and encouragement, good male and female candidates will be likely to choose that department.

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``All women students and faculty interviewed reported that they joined it rather than a department at an other prestigious institution, because of their perception that it offered a collaborative, cooperative, and collegial milieu. They were attracted by the warm interpersonal interactions they had experienced when they interviewed and by a sense of personal concern for the candidate conveyed by faculty and students. ... Most had been disturbed by the demoralization of students at other departments where they had interviewed, having heard stories of exploitative advisors and anonymity in large research groups."
H. Etzkowitz, C. Kemelgor, M. Neuschatz, B. Uzzi

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