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Nature 400, 195 (15 July 1999) | doi:10.1038/22156
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Science needs women (cont.)
Abstract
Campaigns on behalf of women researchers are achieving a higher political profile. Recent European initiatives are welcome, but lobbying leadership is needed for them to be followed through amidst political change.
In recent years the issue of the small number of women working in science has shifted from being seen as one of social justice to one of economic sense — that in societies increasingly demanding a skilled technical workforce we need to stop squandering half of our scientific potential. So the drawing together by the European Commission last week (see page 202) of a so-called 'network of networks' of women-in-science groups to form an assemblage large enough, and with enough tentacles, to apply pressure in many of the right places around Europe was a timely idea.
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