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Going Governmental
Rachel Nuwer | Dec 1, 2011 | 8 min read
Federal agencies offer interesting opportunities for researchers looking to do more than bench work.
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Pandemic Pressures May Drive Young Scientists Away from Autism Research
Grace Huckins | Jun 18, 2021 | 9 min read
For researchers who work with study participants in person, lockdowns made it impossible to obtain fresh data, a survey finds.
Balancing Academic Research And Motherhood Is A Precarious Task
Ricki Lewis | Sep 17, 1995 | 6 min read
Precarious Task Author: Ricki Lewis In the days of TV's June Cleaver -- stay-at-home-mom extraordinaire -- the idea of the female parent spending hours each day lecturing undergraduates or directing laboratory research bordered on absurd. Women were rare among the ranks of academic scientists, and those who were also mothers rarer still. Today women are prominent players in the academic life sciences, and many are mothers, too. Like their counterparts in industry (R. Lewis, The Scientist, Jan.
Making Marriage Work: A Challenge For Scientist Couples
Julia King | Sep 3, 1989 | 8 min read
Geologists Priscilla and Edward Grew have been happily married for the past 14 years. Yet the success of their relationship can hardly be attributed to “togetherness.” Far from it. Priscilla, director of the Minnesota Geological Survey and a full professor of geology at the University of Minnesota, lives in Minneapolis. Edward, meanwhile, is a research associate professor at the University of Maine in Orono. And that’s where he lives—about 1,000 miles as the crow flies,
Industry Becomes More Hospitable To The Scientist As New Mother
Ricki Lewis | Jan 8, 1995 | 6 min read
The challenge of successfully combining the demands of family and career may be easing for women scientists in industry. With increasing numbers of women opting to work in private- sector research laboratories--and in the wake of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993--many firms have revamped maternity-leave policies to better accommodate new parenthood and the transition back to work. The recently enacted federal law ensures workers in companies with 50 or more employees 12 weeks of unpaid,
Toward an Equitable Europe
Harvey Black | May 12, 2002 | 4 min read
Female researchers in the United States lead an international movement to improve the status of women in science careers, according to scientists and sociologists in the United States and Europe. Recent reports on the pay and working conditions of female professors in four Massachusetts Institute of Technology departments—inspired by an earlier report in that institution's School of Science—show that women receive lower pay than do men in comparable positions and miss out on importan
A Space for Children
Kerry Grens | Aug 1, 2007 | 6 min read
Industry knows that onsite childcare is good for retention. Is academia starting to catch on?
NSF Employment Study Confirms Issues Facing Women, Minorities
Edward Silverman | Apr 13, 1997 | 7 min read
NO PROBLEMS? AWIS’s Catherine Didion comments that women often are not willing to acknowledge impediments to advancement. Women and underrepresented minorities-African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans-generally are paid lower salaries and occupy fewer supervisory positions than their white, male counterparts in industry, according to a recent study conducted by the National Science Foundation. The study also sheds light on the issues that women and minorities say often impede t
Genetics-Based Testing Could Create A Biologic Underclass
Dorothy Nelkin | Nov 26, 1989 | 9 min read
[Editor’s note: Sophisticated biological tests that can uncover latent problems or predict future diseases have been developed over the past few years. Such tests have important clinical applications, but they also have found their way into nonclinical contexts in which they provide unprecedented threats to our traditional concepts of privacy and personal autonomy. So say Dorothy Nelkin and Laurence Tancredi, coauthors of a new book, Dangerous Diagnostics: The Social Power of Biological I

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