User Comment: Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering
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Title: Women Advancing Science
Date: 25 Sep 2007 at 7:13 PM PDT
Comment by: Jo Handelsman and Robert Birgeneau
A few significant changes in the academic system coud stem the loss of talented women, thereby fortifying our scientific leadership. Article in
Technology Review, Sep., 25, 2007 that references the Beyond Bias and Barriers report. It begins:
"It begins: "In his much-acclaimed best seller "The World is Flat" Thomas L. Friedman warned that America is slipping further behind China and India in producing scientists and engineers at the peril of the innovation and productivity of our nation. A recent report from the National Academies, "Beyond Bias and Barriers," provides a very direct solution to this conundrum. American science needs more talent and that talent is readily available in a legion of well-trained, but greatly underutilized scientists and engineers who happen to be women. The good news is that a few significant changes in the academic system could stem the loss of these women, thereby fortifying our scientific leadership."
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