Millie Dresselhaus and the Climate for Women in Physics Site Visit Program

This talk will discuss the Climate for Women in Physics Site Visit Program and the important role that Millie Dresselhaus played in its creation and evolution. This program, administered by the Committee on the Status of Women in Physics (CSWP) of the American Physical Society (APS), provides expert site visit teams on request to institutional leadership wishing to better understand and improve the environment in their organization. Starting in the early 1990’s, it grew out of a program focused on investigating the climate for minorities in physics and today visits can be jointly hosted with the Committee on Minorities (COM). To date approximately 64 academic departments and 15 major collaborations, research institutes, and national laboratories have requested site visits and benefited from the many lesson learned and best practices identified.