Tag archive for ‘National Academy of Sciences’
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9 of 72 new NAS members are women
The Association for Women in Science presents a series of charts and a summary of relevant data on the continuing and disturbing trend of electing a pathetic number of female scientists to the National Academy of Sciences. Particularly infuriating is their description of the NAS response in 2001 to complaints about the low numbers of [...]
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New York Times on Beyond Bias
Here, the New York Times has its take on the National Academy of Sciences’ report on women in science careers (Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering). Although NYT says that the report “recommends a sweeping overhaul of our institutions”, little has changed in the four years since [...]
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Beyond Bias and Barriers
The NAS press has their study on women in science careers, Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering, available online for your reading pleasure. The report was released in 2006. Here’s a description: The United States economy relies on the productivity, entrepreneurship, and creativity of its people. To maintain its [...]
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Universities Urged to Improve Hiring and Advancement of Women
This old Science article sums up some of the results from the National Academy of Sciences’ report Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering. Unfortunately, the report’s results are still pretty accurate four years later.
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To Recruit and Advance
This report, released in the same year as Beyond Bias and Barriers…, focuses specifically on recruitment of female students and faculty, retention of current female students, and advancement of current female faculty in STEM fields. From the NAS description: Although more women than men participate in higher education in the United States, the same is [...]