[EDEQUITY] Gender barriers in science/engineering

From: Linda.Purrington, (lpurring@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Jan 31 2001 - 17:33:51 EST


January 31, 2001

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) -- The heads of nine leading research universities
have issued a statement acknowledging that female professors in science
and engineering still face significant barriers because of gender.
...''If we reach agreement on this problem here, it will have an
enormous impact everywhere in the country,'' Georgi said.

rest of article at:

Statement: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/nr/2001/gender.html
MIT gender study: http://web.mit.edu/fnl/women/women.html

http://www.newsday.com/ap/national/ap330.htm

Linda Purrington
lpurring@earthlink.net



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