Recommended Resources

• Bertrand, M. & Mullainathan, S. Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination. NBER Working Paper No. 9873, July 2003.
• Bilimoria, D. K. and Buch, K.M. The Search is On: Engendering Faculty Diversity Through More Effective Search and Recruitment. [.pdf] Change, July/August 2010, pp. 27–32.
• Columbia University Best Practices in Faculty Search and Hiring
• Cornell University Office of Faculty Development and Diversity Resources for Recruitment
• Duke University Trinity College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Search Checklist
• Diversity Best Practices — Faculty Members, Produced by the Trustee Ad Hoc Committee on Diversity Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey September 2013
• Fine, E., Sheridan, J., Carnes, M., Handelsman, J., Pribbenow, C., Savoy, J. and Wendt, A. “Minimizing the Influence of Gender Bias on the Faculty Search Process” in Gender Transformation in the Academy. Published online: 07 Oct 2014; 267–289.
• Heilman, M.E. The Impact of Situational Factors on personnel decisions concerning women: Varying the sex composition of the applicant pool. Organizational Behavior and Human Performance, 1980, 26m 386–395.
• Moody, J. (2011). Faculty Diversity: Removing the Barriers. New York: Routledge.
• Moody, J. (2010). Rising Above Cognitive Errors: Guidelines to Improve Faculty Searches, Evaluations, and Decision-Making. (Resources for Medical, Law, & Business Schools and Colleges & Universities).
• Moss-Racusin, C.A., Dovidio, J.F. Brescoll, V.L. Graham, M.J. and Handelsman, J. Science faculty’s subtle gender biases favor male students. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012, 104 (41), 16474–16479, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1211286109
• Nelson, D. (2007). A National Analysis of Minorities in Science and Engineering Faculties at Research Universities. [.pdf] In C. N. Brammer & H. Rhoads (Eds.).
• Rice University Office of Faculty Development Search Committee Training
• Rutgers University Online Search Committee Module
• Schmader, T., Whitehead, J. and Wysocki, V.H. A Linguistic Comparison of Letters of Recommendation for Male and Female Chemistry and Biochemistry Job Applicants. Sex Roles 2007; 57(7-8): 509–514. doi:10.1007/s11199-007-9291-4.
• Stanford University Faculty Search Toolkit
• University of Arizona ADVANCE Search Committee Orientation Bibliography
• University of Michigan Rackham School Handbook for Faculty Searches and Hiring
• Trix, F. & Pesenka, C. Exploring the Color of Glass: Letters Of Recommendation for Male and Female Medical Faculty. doi: 10.1177/0957926503014002277 Discourse & Society March 2003 vol. 14 no. 2 191–220
• University of Washington ADVANCE, Interrupting Bias in the Faculty Search Process
• University of Wisconsin-Madison, Women in Science & Engineering Leadership Institute, Reviewing Applicants: Research on Bias and Assumptions [.pdf]
• Valian, V. (1999). Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
• Van Ommeren J., de Vries, R.E., Russo, G & Van Ommeren, M. Context in Selection of Men and Women in Hiring Decisions: Gender Composition of the Applicant Pool. Psychological Reports, 2005, 96, 349–360.