US WOMEN IN SCIENCE LESS ACCEPTED THAN WOMEN IN BUSINESS
A meeting last month at the New York Academy of Sciences (US)
focused on the past 25 years of progress for women scientists and
engineers in the US. The apparent consensus at the conference was
that the climate for women in both industry and government has
improved much faster than in academia, with the changes in
industry mostly due to a drive by industry for diversity. The
Motorola Corporation (US) now has 43 women vice-presidents. In
1996, women were 51% of the US population, 46% of the labor
force, but only 22% of scientists and engineers. Nobel Laureate
Gertrude Elion advised women in science to follow Farragut's
order: "Damn the torpedoes -- full speed ahead."
(Chem. & Eng. News 6 Apr 98)
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