How do children affect women in science? We investigate this question using rich
biographical data, linked with patents and publications, for 83,000 American scientists in …

American women are leaving academic science, including the social sciences, in alarming
numbers. Many will turn away from science while still in graduate school. Although women …

About 80 percent of women trained in science or engineering are in the labor force, but
many are employed outside of their fields. Most who withdraw from the labor force do so …

Why don't more women become scientists? And why do those who do become scientists
often face more difficulties than their male counterparts? Every year, about a quarter of a …

Women have made tremendous strides in educational attainment in science and
engineering over the past decade, increasing their proportion of doctorate awards in these …

Studies of scientists' research per formance, as gauged by their published productivity, find
that women generally publish fewer papers throughout their careers than men matched for …

The national debate on the issue--touched off by the unfortunate comments of Harvard's
president, Lawrence Summers--has so far missed the central point: scientists are made, not …

Women in science. Women in science. Citation Cole, JR (1987). Women in science. In DN
Jackson & JP Rushton (Eds.), Scientific excellence: Origins and assessment (pp. 359–375) …

In 1992, the situation of women in science is complex and rapidly changing. In many fields
the era of out-front discrimination is fading as women enter research in growing numbers …

Recent comments from Harvard President Lawrence Summers have sparked heated
discussion in the United States and abroad about possible inherent (that is, genetic) …