March 4, 2005

Study Finds No Bias in Hiring of Female Physicists by Universities

By ROBIN WILSON

Article: Where's Larry?

Universities are hiring female physicists as professors at about the same rate that women are earning Ph.D.'s in the field, according to a new report by the American Institute of Physics.

The finding puts physics at odds with other scientific disciplines -- including chemistry and the biological sciences -- where another study showed that a much greater proportion of women were

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