[Wism-l] White males maintain pole positions in US science

[Flora Grabowska]

News at Nature article:
White males maintain pole positions in US science

The address is: http://www.nature.com/news/2007/071107/full/450149c.html
Published online 7 November 2007 | Nature 450, 149 (2007) | doi:10.1038/450149c
News in Brief
White males maintain pole positions in US science



If you are studying science in the United States, the chances are 
that your mentor is a white male. And although more underrepresented 
minorities and women are earning degrees, fields such as chemistry 
and mathematics are among the worst in helping them make the leap to 
faculty positions, according to a report led by Donna Nelson, a 
chemist at the University of Oklahoma in Norman (see 
http://tinyurl.com/yqwjyq).....................


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