Nicole M. Gasparini (she/her/hers)

Class 1:

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Ice Breaker: Have students think of as many women scientists as they can in 1 minute. Have them share with their neighbor. Do they have overlap? Go around the groups having them supply one name and talk about each scientist as you go. How many are women of color? Are any disabled? How much do you know about these women?

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I introduce myself, including something about what I was like at their age, how I became a geomorphologist, my mentors through undergrad, grad school and post-doc (all male), and what my work life is like now.

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Discuss why we need this class. Present some words/terms to know: equity, gender pay gap, diversity, inclusion, minority, minoritized, marginalized, bias, sexism, racism, ableism, classism, decolonizing science, bullying.

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Watch and discuss Sarah Myhre's TEDx talk: Take your humanity with you.

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Class 2: 

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Introduce Wikipedia page project. Groups of students will be creating a new Wikipedia page for a woman in STEM.

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Discuss two articles:

Ben Barres' Nature commentary "Does Gender Matter?" (2006).

Joan Williams' Harvard Business Review article "The 5 Biases Pushing Women Out of STEM" (2015).

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Class 3:

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Guest speaker on creating Wikipedia pages. (In our case this is someone on campus who regularly runs Wikipedia workshops.)

Before class students are asked to read Katharine Sanderson's Chemical and Engineering News article "Where are Wikipedia's women scientists?" (2018).

Students should also have created a Wikipedia account and user page.

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Class 4:

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First WiS speaker. Some discussion on finding a scientist to create a Wikipedia page on. Discuss two readings.

Joan Williams' and Kate Massinger's The Atlantic article "How Women are Harassed out of Science" (2016).

Alexandra Witze's Nature story "Sexual harassment is rife in the sciences, finds landmark US study" (2018).

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Class 5:

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One Love Workshop on identifying abusive relationships and building healthy relationships.

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Classes 6 - 12:

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In these classes will discuss Angela Saini's book Inferior. We will also have a number of WiS speakers and speakers introducing the students to Tulane's Newcomb Institute.

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