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...surveyed other women in MIT’s School of Science??and found that there were only 15 female senior faculty members, compared to 197 men. The survey led to the creation of a Committee on Women Faculty in 1995, tasked with studying gender discrimination at MIT, which Hopkins chaired...
...Hopkins, what constitutes “science?? in studies of gender differences is an open question—one that has been answered with both “discouraging” arguments and “meaningful” debate...
Melissa E.B. Franklin is used to being at the forefront of particle physics: Discover Magazine described her as one of “the most important women in science?? in November 2002. But earlier this week, Franklin, who holds the Mallinckrodt chair in physics at Harvard, found herself at the cutting edge of the English language when—in an interview with the Boston Globe—she described University President Lawrence H. Summers’ remarks on women in science as a “resignable thing...
...oversized ten year-olds at the local pools. This was hardly the first time I had witnessed casual conversation touch the edge of scientific inquiry and bounce back off, like a projectile not quite captured by a body’s gravity. Those of us “in science??—the very term conjures images of a chemist fighting off thick fumes of acid or a geologist emerging from a month-long stay in a sticky cave—find ourselves in a world misunderstood by so many others, even ourselves. The frustrations...
...that the Bush administration has actively impeded the progress of science in the last four years. The letter cited an August 2001 executive order restricting stem cell research, White House skepticism of global warming theory and tightened immigration rules as examples of Bush’s perceived roadblocks to science??and said the Democratic candidate would undo the damage...