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Too few women scientists achieving academic leadership positions
Date:11/16/2007

New Rochelle, November 16, 2007 As the U.S. continues to fall behind countries such as China and India in producing high-level scientists, one immediate and obvious solution would be to take advantage of the many women who have obtained doctoral degrees in science but have been passed over in their attempts to rise to the position of tenured professor, according to a provocative editorial in the November 2007 issue (Volume 26, Number 11) of DNA and Cell Biology, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. The editorial is available free online.

Co-authors Jo Handelsman, PhD, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Editor-in-Chief of DNA and Cell Biology, and President of the Rosalind Franklin Society, and Robert Birgeneau, PhD, Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, contend that a few significant changes in the academic system in the U.S. could move more accomplished women scientists into positions of leadership, helping to balance the current gender inequality in the hierarchy of academia and to fortify the countrys overall scientific leadership. The Rosalind Franklin Society, established in early 2007 by Mary Ann Liebert, honors the achievements of the woman who pioneered the discovery of the structure of DNA by working to encourage greater opportunities for women in the biomedical sciences through education, mentoring, and advocacy.

Building on the findings of a National Academy report entitled Beyond Bias and Barriers, which attributes the lack of women in academic leadership positions to a combination of unconscious biases and archaic university structures, Handelsman and Birgeneau support the Academys recommendation for educating the academic community about the insidious role of unconscious bias in decision-making.

Furthermore, they point to the antiquated tenure system, in which women are often held back from advancing to tenured professorships because of child-be
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Contact: Vicki Cohn
vcohn@liebertpub.com
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News
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