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SOURCE: AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN...
...American Association of University Women report found that although the number of women entering science and engineering fields is growing, gender biases still affect their career aspirations. While boys and girls graduate from high school with similar math and science grades and the ratio of males to females who score above 700 on the math SAT has narrowed from 13:1 to 3:1 in the past three decades, women still earn only 20% of bachelor's degrees in physics and engineering...
...past 20 years, the conference, which focuses on advancing women and minorities in science, has honored notables such as Mario Molina, 1995 Nobel prizewinner in chemistry, and mathematics teacher Jaime Escalante, the inspiration for the film “Stand and Deliver...
Freshmen Olivia Weeks and Meghan Ferreira rounded out a strong weekend for the first-year women, as Weeks took third in the triple jump with an mark of 11.95 meters while Ferreira crossed the line in second in the 100-meter hurdles...
...government forced him to cut deals with all manner of unsavory characters. The CIA, it should be remembered, was doing the same thing: the hundreds of millions of dollars in suitcases that the agency took into Afghanistan in the early days of the invasion was not aimed at funding women's literacy projects; its purpose was to buy off the local warlords who control all the valleys, recognizing the fact that power changes hands in Afghanistan when those warlords switch their allegiances. Karzai probably considers the U.S. political leadership naive for believing that a pro-Western government there can survive...