Women in science and technology equal opportunity act, 1980 : hearing before the Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, second session, on S. 568 ... March 3, 1980.

  • United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research.
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1980
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    continues through college, graduate school, and into the work force. I am confident that the other members of the Committee on Women in Mathematics join me in gratitude at seeing in the bill provisions for traineeships and fellowships for women in science and for the awarding of graduate and postgraduate fellowships at all levels, for emphasis on helping the continuing education woman who wishes a career in the sciences, and for changing the present images in textbooks and in the eye of the public that science is not for women. The incentive awards to high schools which can prove that they encourage their female students, as they do their male students, to enter careers in the sciences is good. It also hits high schools at just a point where funds in all communities are low. That may end by being a help in this connection although one always wishes for the maximum of funding for education. It is particularly gratifying to see the provision for a Committee on Women in Science, with the charge of working with and advising the National Science Foundation. That latter can stand a lot of. advising on the use of its funds for women in science. I was glad to see the provision that of a 13 member Committee at least 9 must be women, with 7 of those holding the Ph.D. degree in the disciplines. The provision that the Committee will advise on peer review procedures and on the choice of advisory committees is a good one. As you are aware, most of the women's caucuses in the sciences feel strongly that these two aspects of the present workings of the NSF are far from satisfactory. I would be happy to see travel grants for young women scientists, particu- larly those with positions in institutions which have a small amount of money for travel grants, included in the provisions of the bill. Perhaps that could come to pass under recommendations to the NSF from the Committee on Women in Science. I think the GS-18 pay for the advice and work of women in science who are at the level in their own careers where they could be expected to give valuable advice to the National Science Foundation is appropriate. After all, these women will have spent many years as women scientists, facing discrimination on many occasions, and their advise should be invaluable. Thank you and your Committee again for all its work on behalf of Senate bill 568. I wish you success in its quick passage through the Senate. Sincerely, Alice T. Schafer Helen Day Gould Professor of Mathematics Chair, AMS-MAA-NCTM-SIAM Committee on Women in Mathematics ATS/et Senator MretzENBAUM. Thank you ali very much. The hearing has been extremely helpful. [Whereupon, at 11:48 a.m., the subcommittee was adjourned.] O