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APPENDIX E-5: Status of Women in the Chemical Sciences--Robert Lichter, Willie Pearson, Jr., Lisa J. Borello, and Janet L. Bryant
Pages 87-92

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... For an academic career, women perceived that the potential rewards were insufficient incentives to overcome the challenges and compromises required for success, and that an industrial setting would provide a more compatible environment. Those challenges and compromises included the all-consuming and insufficiently collaborative requirements for success, challenges to building of family and other relationships, and advice from others that they were likely to be less competitive by virtue of their gender.
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From page 88...
... The consequence is the inability to have the largest pool of people from whom to draw the top talent required to address global economic and societal challenges, and to sustain a country's global economic competitiveness. In the United States, increased competition from Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, the United Kingdom, and South American and Asian countries -- all of which have been making more strategic investments in chemistry research and education -- poses a growing concern for policy-makers.
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From page 89...
... Sources of data include journal publications, government reports and statistics, reports compiled from professional organizations and technical societies, and personal inquiries to contacts in other countries. The National Science Board's Science and Engineering Indicators is a particularly rich source of limited global information available.
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From page 90...
... Since 1994, the United Kingdom's Royal Society has offered Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowships annually to early-career scientists who do not yet hold permanent positions and who require flexibility in their working patterns because of personal matters such as childbirth and parenting, family care responsibilities, or health issues.10 The intent is to keep promising younger scientists, especially women, engaged in science on a part-time basis even while they attend to such personal issues. Stipends are relatively generous and include funds for research-related activities, and the term can last up to four years.
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... APPENDIX E-5: STATUS OF WOMEN IN THE CHEMICAL SCIENCES 91 Next Steps The examples presented here are intended to give a flavor of the data and comparisons sought in the ongoing project, and underscore the need for broader-based data collection and examination. Even if relevant data turn out not to be generally available, the questions that arise are expected to propel the necessary efforts to generate those data, and thus shape policies and programs internationally that can advance women, and make their influence more visible, in the chemical sciences.
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