Speaker Bios

Susan Estrich: author of "Sex and Power", first woman president of Harvard Law Review, youngest women to get tenure at Harvard Law School and former campaign manager for presidential candidate Michael Dukakis - now law professor and political commentator at USC.

Charlotte Fishman: the Director of Equal Rights Advocates' Higher Education Legal Advocacy Project. She is a 1979 graduate of Harvard Law School who, as an attorney in private practice, specialized in gender discrimination, including tenure denial and other glass ceiling issues. Equal Rights Advocates is a nationally respected women's rights organization located in San Francisco and founded in 1974.

Alice Huang : Caltech molecular biologist, councilor for external relations. See http://www.planetary.org/html/mmp/scien/huana/huana70.htm for a nice astronomy-related piece.

Rachel Ivie: Senior Research Associate at the Statistical Research Center of the American Institute of Physics. She been involved in several reports on the demographics of physics and related areas.

Debra Rolison: Physical chemist working on nanostructures at NRL. She has been writing articles and giving presentations raising the issue of whether Title IX might be used to help increase the hiring of women in STEM. She has a recent article on this topic in the APS newsletter.

Elaine Seymour: Author of "Talking about Leaving", a study of why undergraduates leave the sciences - particularly women - and the systemic issues that affect both those who stay as well as those who leave. Research Professor in Sociology at the University of Colorado.

Sheila Tobias: Author of "They're not Dumb, they're Different" and other books on science/math education and feminism. Speaker and contributor to WIA I.

Virginia Valian: Author of "Why so Slow?", a study of why the advancement of women has not progressed faster. Professor of Psychology and Linguistics at Hunter College and CUNY.