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Asian Scientists and the Glass Ceiling
No full textLetter replying to the article, A Glass Ceiling for Asian Scientists, by Jeffrey Mervis
Can Equality in Sports be Repeated in the Lab?
No full textPhysical chemist Debra Rolison has spent the past 2 years promoting a controversial idea for improving the status of women scientists in academia. But last week, when the U.S. Senate staged its first-ever hearing on the topic, Rolison was 1800 kilometers away, watching her niece play high school volleyball and basketball. Ironically, the reason Rolison couldn\u27t attend was related to the theme of the hearing--whether a 30-year-old federal law that has increased opportunities for women athletes in schools and colleges could do the same thing for women scientists
NSF, Academics Told to Act as if They Mean it
No full textWhat will it take to produce a more diverse U.S. scientific workforce? A lot of academic carrots and a few sticks, said participants in a daylong workshop sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) last week. But no combination of incentives and penalties will succeed, they warned, unless universities take the problem more seriously and graduates can find more good jobs
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