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Another result of "separating the men from the boys" is that women may be disproportionately weeded out. Although a female scientist at Harvard may face little discrimination severe enough to damage her career, there is little chance that there will be many female physics graduates at Harvard under a system that makes most first-year students ineligible to study physics before they arrive. The discrimination is carried out by parents who are less likely to encourage their 12-year-old daughters to shun their friends and other interests to study physics and math and go to math camp. This should...
Another IBM scientist involved with the project, Feng-hsiung Hsu, said that the final barriers that prevent computers from regularly defeating humans would be overcome in the next two to four years...
When Linda S. Wilson was chosen for the post, I thought she could bring about this change. Wilson's record as a respected scientist and advocate for faculty diversity at the University of Michigan revealed her potential for improving Radcliffe tremendously...
...Wilson consider the effects of the lack of female graduate students and faculty in the sciences? Or the impact on women of harrassment in science courses? Since Wilson herself is a scientist, I had hoped she would be concerned with the dwindling number of women science concentrators and advocate additional hiring of women faculty who could act as true role models for undergraduate women. But Wilson's focus on the Bunting Institute merely diverted attention from the real problems facing women in science...
...candidates from the Alumni Association's eight-person slate and two from HRAAA's five nominees are involved in science or medicine, constituting the highest proportion of scientist candidates in recent years...