May 13, 2005
19 Women Elected to National Academy
The National Academy of Sciences announced last week that it had elected 72 new members, of whom 19 are women, the largest group of women ever elected in one year.
The move followed several years of discussion about whether the academy's membership was too much of an old boys' club, made up predominantly of older, white men. Academy members have said they have worked harder to find candidates who better reflect the diversity of gender and race among scientists, while still maintaining
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