Press Conference for the GAO Report
22 Jul 2004
From left: Dr. Nancy Hopkins, Senator Ron Wyden, Dr. Donna J.
Nelson, and Ms. Marcia D. Greenberger at the press
conference in the Capitol Building..
US Senate News Release on the GAO Report on Title IX
Compliance.
- Data for Figure 6 of the GAO Report, concerning the
percentage of women among research university science faculty by rank
were obtained via the Nelson Diversity Surveys.
- Practices affecting women's participation in science were
referenced from The
MIT Study.
Speakers:
Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR)
Ms.
Marcia Greenberg, Co-President of the National Women's Law Center (NWLC)
Dr. Nancy Hopkins, Professor,
Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dr. Donna Nelson, Associate Professor,
Department of Chemistry, University of Oklahoma
Title IX petition letter to George Bush signed
by ~100 scientists.
