What's Up With Science's Gender Gap?
Women In Science, 1987 National Cancer Institute Now, as ever, it's a tough time to be a lady in science. As Nature wrote in its women in science issue earlier this year: "Despite some progress, women scientists are still paid less, promoted less, win fewer grants and are more likely to leave research than similarly qualified men." The question, of course, is: Why? Why, even as the demand for STEM education rises, do only a fifth of the physics Ph.Ds awarded in the U.S. go to women, as a new New York Times magazine story asks? Written by Eileen Pollack, who was one of the first women to graduate from Yale with a bachelor's degree in physics in 1978, this story is a deeply personal one. Though she graduated with honors after having written a thesis that, years later, her...