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CAREERS IN SCIENCE: Enhanced: More Women in Science
Jo Handelsman,1,2* Nancy Cantor,3 Molly Carnes,2,4 Denice Denton,5 Eve Fine,2 Barbara Grosz,6 Virginia Hinshaw,7 Cora Marrett,8 Sue Rosser,9 Donna Shalala,10 Jennifer Sheridan2
Universities are failing to take advantage of an available resource: the brainpower of women scientists. In many fields of science, the proportion of women in faculty positions lags well behind the proportion of Ph.D.'s granted to women. In this Policy Forum, the authors explore the reasons for the disparity and offer examples of strategies used at research universities to overcome the impediments to recruitment, retention, and advancement of outstanding women scientists.
1Howard Hughes Medical Institute, professor, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin--Madison; 2Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute, University of Wisconsin--Madison; 3Chancellor and president, Syracuse University; 4Department of Medicine and Center for Women's Health Research, University of Wisconsin--Madison; 5Chancellor, University of California, Santa Cruz; 6Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences, Harvard University; 7Provost and executive vice chancellor, University of California, Davis; 8Senior vice president and deputy president, University of Wisconsin System; 9Dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, Georgia Institute of Technology; 10President, University of Miami. [For complete addresses, see the supporting online material.]
*Author for correspondence. E-mail: joh{at} plantpath.wisc.edu
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