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Careers in science offer women an unusual bonus: immortality

Dean Falk1

  1. Department of Anthropology, University at Albany, Albany, New York 12222, USA

I was alarmed to learn in your Opinion article1 that President Clinton's National Science and Technology Council was "toothless" in its failure to address the shortage of women and minorities in science, technology and engineering, and that this situation could have "devastating" consequences by 2050 for the US economy and scientific leadership2. An analysis of death notices and obituaries in Nature every 10 years from 1949 to 1999, and in Science every 10 years from 1949 to 1969 (after which it stopped regularly publishing these) suggests a way of increasing the number of women scientists dramatically.