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 female members: rather than increase the proportion of female members elected every year, NAS just added 12 more election slots. Interestingly, after the first four years with the new number of slots, the number of women elected every year dropped to below 12 again, meaning that the new slots were in fact going mainly to men.
