[Search for users] [Overall Top Noters] [List of all Conferences] [Download this site]

Conference turris::womannotes-v1

Title:ARCHIVE-- Topics of Interest to Women, Volume 1 --ARCHIVE
Notice:V1 is closed. TURRIS::WOMANNOTES-V5 is open.
Moderator:REGENT::BROOMHEAD
Created:Thu Jan 30 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 30 1995
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:873
Total number of notes:22329

203.0. "article on women/wives/mothers in science" by LDP::SCHNEIDER () Tue Feb 17 1987 08:03

    Thought there might be some interest in an article that's in the
    February issue of Scientific American: "Marriage, Motherhood and
    Research Performance in Science".
    
    It's basically the results of the authors' survey of American
    Scientists (both sexes were surveyed), which was designed to detect any
    difference in scientific productivity (*) that correlated to either
    marriage or parenthood. For those who aren't big S.A. fans, I'll tell
    you they didn't find a difference of any size - but if you're
    especially interested in the topic you should read the article. I can't
    think of any reason that the findings would be different for
    non-science professionals. 
    
    BTW, the issue on the stands now is probably the March one (it takes me
    a looong time to read an issue :-), so check your favorite library. 
    
    Chuck
    
    (*) the admittedly crude measure of productivity was publishing
    frequency
T.RTitleUserPersonal
Name		DateLines