March 5, 2004

When the 'Climate' in a Department Makes Women Uncomfortable

To the Editor:

Your article on women's having faced an unfriendly climate in Duke University's physics department highlights an issue we have been addressing actively for well over a year ("Louts in the Lab," January 23). Unfortunately, it does so in a way that reflects more on the past than on the present, and more on the problems we all recognize than on the efforts that have been undertaken to improve the situation. In doing so, it does a disservice to the department, to many of

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