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Why do so few women speak at science meetings?

Pamela A. Silver1

  1. Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA

Mary Ann Holmes and Suzanne O'Connell comment on the lack of women in the academic ranks in your Recruiters article "Leaks in the pipeline" (Nature 446, 346; 2007). In the same issue, advertisements for two Nature conferences illustrate part of the problem — the poor representation of women speakers at scientific meetings.