http://helix.nature.com/debates/
The prestigious English scientific journal Nature has been running a debate on the web, moderated by Nancy Lane, which is well worth accessing and reading. It started on 6 September 1999. The titles of the first 3 weeks' articles and emails are listed below.
Why are there so few women in science?
Nancy J. Lane
Moving on from discrimination at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mary-Lou Pardue, Nancy Hopkins, Mary C. Potter & Sylvia Ceyer
Equal opportunities: a necessity for quality in research
Sybille Krummacher
The 'Women and Science' challenge in Europe
Nicole Dewandre
Equal opportunities for women in science -new strategies of the German
Federal Government
Helga Ebeling
Women in science, Third World perspectives
Lydia P. Makkubu
A unique national project to increase the participation of women in science
and engineering from Canada
Monique Frize, Claire Deschenes, Elizabeth Cannon, Mary Williams &
Maria Klawe
Gender mainstreaming in science and technology -- a global report
Geoffrey Oldham & Sjamsiah Achmad
Remove age limits for posts, fellowships and scholarships
Irene Sciriha
Equal rights will not come quickly
Anthony Engwirda
'Accumulated disadvantage' still present in New Zealand
Kerry Everett
Could part-time work solve the problem?
Elly Scheermeyer
US discrimination rooted in the 'glut' of scientists and engineers
Gene A.Nelson
Ericsson gets it right
Marika Hellqvist Greberg
Support girls at an early age
Deborah Lenceski