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from the New York Times (Registration Required)
HOUSTON - Since the 1970s, women have surged into science and engineering
classes in larger and larger numbers, even at top-tier institutions like
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where half the undergraduate
science majors and more than a third of the engineering students are women.
Half of the nation's medical students are women, and for decades the
numbers have been rising similarly in disciplines like biology and
mathematics.
Yet studies show that women in science still routinely receive less
research support than their male colleagues, and they have not reached the
top academic ranks in numbers anything like their growing presence would
suggest.
For example, at top-tier institutions only about 15 percent of full
professors in social, behavioral or life sciences are women, "and these are
the only fields in science and engineering where the proportion of women
reaches into the double digits," an expert panel convened by the National
Academy of Sciences reported in September. And at each step on the academic
ladder, more women than men leave science and engineering.
To read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/19/science/19women.html
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