January 21, 2005

Gender Inequality in Academe

To the Editor:

Robin Wilson's "Where the Elite Teach, It's Still a Man's World" (The Chronicle, December 3) is lengthy and quite thorough in terms of statistics and interviews with many female academics. One of the article's central messages is that, despite policies that encourage affirmative-action hiring, women remain underrepresented and even suffer from, in the words of chemistry professor Geraldine L. Richmond, "toxic atmospheres" in the hard-science departments of elite

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