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Science 3 December 1999:
Vol. 286. no. 5446, p. 1827
DOI: 10.1126/science.286.5446.1827b
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MIT's dean of the school of science, Robert Birgeneau, will leave the Cambridge, Massachusetts, campus next summer to become head of his alma mater, the University of Toronto. That's causing jitters among the women faculty at MIT, who praise the physicist as their most important advocate in a long battle to address gender inequality (Science, 12 November, p. 1272). But Lotte Bailyn, an MIT management professor and former faculty chair, is optimistic that the issue won't die with the dean's departure. And Birgeneau himself says that the effort to address inequality issues "is in transition--but there's enough momentum" to ensure that the issue remains on the front burner. Both academics note that the other four MIT schools have already organized committees to examine the status of faculty women similar to the one Birgeneau helped create.

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