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...elementary level never liked science in the first place. That's in part because science enthusiasts, who start at about $32,000 in a public school teaching job, are lured to careers in the business world. "Corporate America is eating its feed corn," says Wheeler. Women who excel in science today, he says, have career options that weren't open to them in the Sputnik era, a victory for equality but a loss for schools. "Teachers are so frightened of these subjects that they transmit the fear to the children," says former Merck CEO P. Roy Vagelos. "These kids...
...It’s a completely different lifestyle—I was living in a cabin on a mountain,” she says. Rather than mastering key commands in Excel and taking midday Starbucks breaks, Kleinschmidt quickly began to exercise a new skill set. Her workday included cleaning up the trail, digging, water drainage, and moving rocks around...
...margin, it might allow us to be a little bit more calibrated in finding people who would excel and thrive at BCG,” said King. But he added, “We are comfortable making decisions on people in the absence of grades...
...penned an op-ed for The Boston Globe that appeared to criticize Summers’ now infamous remarks on the “intrinsic aptitude” of women in science. “The question we must ask as a society is not ‘can women excel in math, science, and engineering?’—Marie Curie exploded that myth a century ago—but ‘how can we encourage more women with exceptional abilities to pursue careers in these fields?’” Hennesy, Hockfield, and Tilghman...
Good journalists are generally well-paid, have stimulating jobs, and don't need the lure of prizes to motivate them to excel. But peer recognition in this highly competitive game is always welcome - and should be celebrated. Last week, this magazine's Editor at Large, Tom Dusevic, was honored at the Walkley Awards, Australia's most prestigious journalism prizes. He won the all-media Commentary, Analysis, Opinion and Critique category for three pieces in the areas of politics, economics and diplomacy, including a major story on former Labor leader Mark Latham in the run-up to last year's federal...