This biography centers on the late Elizabeth Leonard Scott's use of statistical reasoning to promote the status of women in academia. Scott (1917- 1988) was a professor of statistics at the University of California at Berkeley (UCB). She was known for her scientific research in mathematical statistics, astronomy, and biostatistics, but she is especially remembered for her work on the status of academic women.
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Amanda L. Golbeck is professor of biostatistics and associate dean for academic affairs in the Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. She has had a long-term interest in gender equity issues in academe that stems from her early association with Scott. Golbeck was the lead editor of Leadership and Women in Statistics (Chapman & Hall/CRC Press) and has had a number of published articles on gender issues in the statistics profession. In 2016, the Committee on Presidents of Statistical Societies selected Golbeck to receive the COPSS Elizabeth L. Scott Award.
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Equivalence: Elizabeth L. Scott at Berkeley is the compelling story of one pioneering statistician's relentless twenty-year effort to promote the status of women in academe and science. Part biography and part microhistory, the book provides the context and background to understand Scott's masterfulness at using statistics to help solve societal problems. In addition to being one of the first researchers to work at the interface of astronomy and statistics and an early practitioner of statistics using high-speed computers, Scott worked on an impressively broad range of questions in science, from whether cloud seeding actually works to whether ozone depletion causes skin cancer. Later in her career, Scott became swept up in the academic women's movement. She used her well-developed scientific research skills together with the advocacy skills she had honed, in such activities as raising funds for Martin Luther King Jr. and keeping Free Speech Movement students out of jail, toward policy making that would improve the condition of the academic workforce for women. The book invites the reader into Scott's universe, a window of inspiration made possible by the fact that she saved and dated every piece of paper that came across her desk.
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The Betty Book
Caught in the Thick of It (1968)
Work as Usual
UC and the Urban Crisis
Berkeley Women and the Urban Crisis
Berkeley Women Begin to Organize
A Complicated Set of Problems
Thick Politics and Early Exhaustion
Shaping the Life
Boots and Saddles (Before 1932)
Grandfather
Uncle and Father
Childhood
Influences
Aunt Phoebe's Telescope (1882-1967)
Astronomy Education
Computer Work
Astronomy Doctoral Studies
Lick Observatory Work
Life Career Balance
Becoming an Outlier (1932-1939)
Move to California
University High School Advantage
Math Advantage
Science Advantage
High School to College
Tunnel Road House
Neyman Serendipity
Klumpke Prize and Graduation
Ten Thousand Hours of Practice (1939-1946)
Year One-Getting up the Mountain
Year Two-Summer at Mount Wilson
Year Three-Beginning War Work
Year Fou-Lick Fellowship
Year Five-University Fellowship
Year Six-Qualifying Exam
Year Seven-Ending War Work
Year Eight-Teaching and Research
A Symmetric Intellectual Relationship
A Rising Star (1947-1954)
Prospects at Vassar
Competing Offers
The UC-Berkeley Decision
Lecturer in Mathematics
Remarkable Research
Instructor in Mathematics
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Trumpler's Book
A Retrospective: Similarities and Differences
A Retrospective: Influence
Clusters of Impact
Championing Science (1939-1988)
Themes and Controversies
Modern Statisticians, Old Equipment
Statistical Astronomy
General Statistical Methods
Bioscience and Health
Symposia, Panels, and Talks
Managing Neyman
The Case of Cloud Seeding (1950-1985)
Confusion
Conflicts
Radio Broadcast
Testimony
Association Leadership
8.6 Relevance Today
Almost Alone in Statistics (1955-1988)
New Statistics Department (1955)
Teaching
Administrator and Professor
Colleague Juliet Popper Shaffer
Status and Resilience
Students and Memories (1948-1988)
Remembrances
On Mentoring
On Generosity
On Personality and Professionalism
On Concentration
On Political Acumen
On Approach to Science
On the Other Side
On Gender
Summing It Up
Letters to Jerry (1954-1955)
October 1954: Paris
January 1955: Paris
February 1955: Paris
April 1955: Paris
May 1955: Paris
Thursday, May 5, 1955: Paris
Sunday, May 8, 1955: Dieppe, Newhaven, Winchester
Thursday, May 12, 1955: Oxford
Thursday night, May 12, 1955: London
Tuesday, May 17, 1955: Cambridge
Wednesday, May 18, 1955: Paris
Thursday morning, May 19, 1955: Paris (continuation of the previous letter)
n.d: Paris
Back in Paris
Monday midnight [most likely May 23, 1955]: Paris
Tuesday [May 24, 1955]: Paris
May 26, 1955, 7:20 am: Paris
Le 26 mai, 17 hr: Paris
29 Mai 1955: Paris
June 1st: Paris [1955]
Saturday, June 4: Lisbon
Soul Mates
Civil Rights Advocacy (1950-1953, 1963-1968)
Loyalty Oath
IMS and Racial Segregation
Civil Rights Solicitations
Saving Aquatic Park
Free Speech Movement
A Changed Environment
The Status of Academic Women at Berkeley
A Disgraceful Situation
(January-September 1969)
Two Faculty Clubs
Senate Subcommittee
Data Collection
Making Visible (October-December 1969)
Research
Debriefing
More Research
Nearing End of Data Collection
Not a Good Time (January-April 1970)
One Club
Counseling and Interpreting
Problems in Zoology and Chemistry
Follow-Up
Problems in Mathematics
Information Exchange
Grounded in Hard Fact (May-June 1970)
Completion
Recommendations
Appendices
How to Proceed
Perspective
Getting on the Agenda
A Tiny Beginning (June-July 1970)
Copies Sent
Advocacy Letters
First Mention of Big Telescopes
Persistence of Repeated Themes
(August-December 1970)
Hard Facts About Big Telescopes
Concerns
Not Ready to Vote
Year End Follow-Ups
We Intend to Do (January-March 1971)
State and System Actions
Club and Center Proposals
De Facto Discrimination
Budget Committee Attention
Complexities
Progress Report
A Little Fire (April-May 1971)
Finally on the Agenda
Renovations
Advisory Committees
Class Action Complaint
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