Speaker: Sheila Tobias
TITLE: "Women in Physics: From Margin to Mainstream and Beyond."BIOGRAPHY: Sheila Tobias, is a feminist activist who has long sought parity for women in all the sciences. She has been a trusted ally of women in physics and of the larger physics community since the 1980s. She was the only non-physicist member of the Committee on the Status of Women in Physics (CSWP) in the 1980s, the only non-physicist member of the 2002 delegation to the IUPAP women in physics conference in Paris, and is the only non-scientist currently on the Board of the Association for Women in Science (AWIS). She was a founder (with others) of the women’s studies movement.
She is the author of 11 books, 6 having to do with teaching and learning mathematics and science, two on the subject of American feminism. Her articles have appeared in American Journal of Physics, the European Journal of Physics, Physics Today, Change (a magazine for Higher Education), Ms Magazine, and Science.