Word: hindering
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Jackson warns that there aren't enough young people (men included) in the pipeline to replace all the talent that flooded the sciences after Sputnik. The looming shortage, she says, will hinder the U.S. economy and national security. So maybe there's a silver lining to the Larry Summers controversy. "It allows us to have a broader conversation about our capacity for innovation," she says. "My focus is on the complete talent pool. It's an all-in proposition from my perspective." --By Julie Rawe
...although a delay in reporting the incident does not hinder the investigation, according to Catalano, he believes the sooner it is reported, the better...
While professors and deans took to Lowell Lecture Hall yesterday to discuss Harvard’s president, members of the student group Women in Science at Harvard-Radcliffe (WISHR) held a session to brainstorm ways in which current University policies hinder female students from concentrating in the sciences...
...think about it, there are few things in the world today that hinder the growth of relationships and love, heterosexual or homosexual, like sexual violence. Even though we don’t hear much about sexual violence, which includes unwanted touching or penetration, it is something that is happening, to our friends, our lovers, and even some of us. The National College Women Sexual Victimization Study (2000) has estimated that between 1 in 4 and 1 in 5 college women experience completed or attempted rape during their college years, and it is estimated that between 80 to 90 percent...
...continue our struggle to solve the problem of the under-representation of women in the sciences, we should not hinder these efforts by assuming that this disparity is caused by biological factors that are beyond institutional control. We have not yet reached a place where each individual can be judged solely on her merits, and until we do, there is more work to be done...