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Westheimer’s talk was sponsored by the Ann Radcliffe Trust and kicked off the National Symposium on the Advancement of Women in Science, a two-day conference organized by Women in Science at Harvard-Radcliffe (WISHR...
...like to be the only girl in a room full of 20 eager-to-please male organic chemistry students. “I would inevitably be the only woman there,” says Yao Liu ’04, a chemistry concentrator who is the current president of WISHR. “That sort of discouraged me from going.” Liu is certainly conscious of the gender imbalance in the sciences, but she says the skewed demographics have not negatively impacted her experience...
...growing numbers, women are taking hard science courses in an attempt to meet pre-med requirements. Last year’s president of Women in Science at Harvard-Radcliffe (WISHR), Wenya L. Bi ’02, says that in her experience, the number of women in introductory science courses almost equals the number of men, though the number of women begins to dwindle once courses move beyond the level of pre-med requirements. Yet many women do choose to concentrate in a hard science—particularly chemistry. Women make up 50 percent of the chemistry concentrators...
...work as dean, Lewis has embraced non-political, relatively non-controversial women's groups like the Women's Leadership Project (WLP) and WISHR...
...disappointing. It's feasible for Harvard to take it on," says Elizabeth D. Chao '01, head of Women in Science at Harvard and Radcliffe (WISHR). "Instead, it has been swept under the rug, and people are sad and upset...