April 28, 2006
Women's Gains in Sciences  at MIT Have Stalled, Study Finds
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has stepped up its efforts to improve women's status in academe only in response to specific initiatives, like equity-in-hiring legislation or targeted campaigns by administrators, says a report on faculty diversity at MIT's Schools of Science and Engineering.
Absent those pressures, the number of female faculty members in the sciences tends to level off, or even, in some instances, to drop, rather than increase in proportion to the number of
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