July 11, 2003

Women Making Gains in Astronomy

Women are gazing at the stars with a professional eye in ever greater numbers, according to a survey released last month by the American Astronomical Society. Although men still dominate the ranks of full professors -- a June 2000 survey, also by the society, found that only 5 percent were women -- the increasing numbers of younger women in the field could portend a change in its gender mix. Here are the proportions of women in each of the following age groups of the society's

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