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How to retain female scientists who want a life, too.

Women in Higher Education

| December 01, 2008 | Malcom, Shirley | COPYRIGHT 2008 Women in Higher Education. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

"It's cheaper to keep her" goes the blues song. Science departments, pay attention or soon you'll be singing the blues. It's wildly expensive--not to mention unjust and wasteful of talent--to educate women scientists and then drive them away with a culture that denies them a life.

Dr. Shirley M. Malcom, head of the directorate for education and human resources programs of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), started out in academics. With a background in zoology, she earned her doctorate in ecology at Perm State and began a faculty career. "I spent time in universities and would still be there but got married and relocated," she said in ...

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