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- From: claird@NeoSoft.com (Cameron Laird)
- Subject: [SOC] Women and AAAS Section committees
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 20:10:26 GMT
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- With its 1992 elections, the members of the American
- Association for the Advancement of Science now have
- a majority of Section representatives who are women.
- I know very little about the politics of the AAAS,
- but it has interested me to watch this trend over
- the past couple decades. This year, at least half
- of the elected representatives of the Sections on
- Agriculture
- Anthropology
- Astronomy
- Biological Sciences
- Chemistry
- Education
- Engineering
- General Interest in Science and Engineering
- History and Philosophy of Science
- Information, Computing, and Communication
- Mathematics
- Social, Economic, and Political Sciences
- Societal Impacts of Science and Engineering
- and Statistics
- are women, and only in the Sections on
- Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences
- Dentistry
- Geology and Geography
- Industrial Science
- Medical Sciences
- Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Physics and
- Psychology
- are men in an absolute majority. I can speculate on all
- sorts of causes and consequences of these facts; is there
- anyone who has more definite knowledge?
-
- I cross-post to sci.anthropology in the sense of "socio-
- logy of science". Please adjust follow-ups appropriately.
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- Cameron Laird
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