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What's up with women and STEM careers?(NEWSWATCH)
The number of women elected to the National Academy of Sciences is down this year, while success of female science students at small colleges is red hot.
Only 12 women were among the 72 newly elected members of the academy this year, down from a record 19 women last year. Membership is considered one of the highest honors in American science.
Including the newest group, about 10% of the active members are women, up from about 7% in 2001. The academy's current members elect new members behind closed doors in a process that some critics say resembles an old boys' club.
Meanwhile, at small schools, STEM majors (science, technology, engineering and math) are a boys' club no more. Recent research shows that some of the nation's small liberal arts schools send on more women proportionally for PhDs in the sciences than larger, elite research universities.
The Survey of Earned Doctorates, which is funded by several federal agencies, released a report in 2005 on where students who earned PhDs between 2000 and 2004 received their bachelor's degrees.
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