Word: womens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though most public discussion of the status of women in the sciences revolves around their small numbers, many faculty members say the numbers don't tell the whole story...
Increasing the number of tenured women has proved to be a long and complicated process. Convincing the university to change the specific policies that negatively affect women can often be equally problematic--but at least these issues have concrete, if complex, solutions...
Many female faculty say that women in the sciences are hurt not only by statistical inequalities and troublesome policies but by the attitudes of the men in their department. And attitudes are not so easy to document and change as numerical discrepancies...
Barbara J. Grosz, McKay professor of computer science and the only tenured woman in the Computer Science Department, says that women are rarely included in the decision-making process within departments...
...Women are by and large invisible to men," she says, adding that she believes the male members of the department are not purposely slighting their female colleagues...