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"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 ...