User Comment: Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering
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Title: John Tieney's Letter in the New York Times
Date: 4 Feb 2007 at 2:01 PM PST
Comment by: Alice Agogino, editor NEEDS and Engineering Pathway
As there are several comments that reference John Tierney's letter, I thought it would be useful to include a link to it. The letter is in the
NYT's archive and is only available to subscribers. The NYT does publish a preview, which I have copied below:
"I've slogged through enough reports from the National Academy of Sciences to know they're often not shining examples of the scientific method. But -- call me naïve -- I never thought the academy was cynical enough to publish a political tract like 'Beyond Bias and Barriers,' the new report on discrimination against female scientists and engineers.
This is the kind of science you expect to find in The Onion: 'Academy Forms Committee to Study Gender Discrimination, Bars Men from Participating.' Actually, it did allow a total of one man, Robert Birgeneau of Berkeley, on the 18-member committee, but that was presumably because he was already on record agreeing with the report's pre-ordained conclusion: academia must stop favoring male scientists and engineers."
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