Wednesday, May 3, 2000
7:45 REGISTRATION AND
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST,
LECTURE ROOM
Thursday, May 4, 2000
Session II. Opportunities for Change
Marcetta Y. Darensbourg, Moderator
7:30 CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
LECTURE ROOM
1:10 Reports of Breakout Groups
8:20 Session I. Context and Overview
Janet G. Osteryoung, Moderator
Why this topic and why now?
8:30 Margaret W. Rossiter, Cornell
University
Experiences of Women in Science and
Engineering
9:05 Discussion
9:25 Virginia Valian, Hunter College
Why So Slow?
2:20 L. Shannon Davis, Solutia Inc.
Industrial Perspective on Hiring and
Advancement
3:00 Discussion
3:20 Break
3:40 Debra R. Rolison, Naval Research
Laboratory
Title IX for Women n Academic Chemistry
4:20 Discussion
4:40 Breakout groups
10:00 Discussion
6:00 RECEPTION – LECTURE ROOM ATRIUM
10:20 Break
6:45 DINNER– GREAT HALL
10:40 Arthur Bienenstock, Office of Science
and Technology Policy
Workforce for the 21st Century: The
Federal Perspective
11:15 Discussion
11:35 Breakout groups and working
lunch
Five breakout groups will discuss questions
based on the presentations. Each group will
have a leader who will be assisted by a
scribe
Dinner Speaker: The Hon. Eddie Bernice
Johonson, U.S. House of Representatives
Session III. Conditions for Success
Robert S. Marianeilli, Moderator
8:10 Reporting of breakout session
9:20 Kathy E. Sendall, Petro-Canada
The Imperative for Leaders and Organization
10:00 Discussion
10:20 Break
10:40 Nancy H. Hopkins, MIT
Experience of Women at MIT
11:00 Discussion
11:20 Breakout groups and working lunch
1:10 Reports of breakout groups
2:20 Concluding remarks, Janet G. Osteryoung
2:30 Adjourn
Chemical Sciences Roundtable
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translated proportionately into increases in
participation in the workplace, especially as
faculty in major research departments.
Furthermore, even in industrial settings
women have not advanced to senior
positions of responsibility in proportion to
their increase at the entry level. One
prominent perspective on this situation
focuses on the issue of fairness to
individuals. However, the scope of issues
for both the profession and the Nation is far
broader. Other compelling issues are (1)
demographic changes in the U.S.
population,
(2)
global
competition,
especially as applied to research and
development, (3) the need for all population
groups to have opportunities for highly paid
employment, (4) the requirement of
institutions to understand their markets, and
(5) the special role of the workforce in
chemistry and chemical engineering as a
basis for economic prosperity.
Richard C. Alkire, Chair, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
Marion C. Thurnauer, Vice Chair, Argonne National
Laboratory
Alexis T. Bell, University of California, Berkeley
Daryle H. Busch, University of Kansas
Marcetta Y. Darensbourg, Texas A&M University
Michael P. Doyle, Research Corporation
Bruce A. Finlayson, University of Washington
Richard M. Gross, The Dow Chemical Company
Esin Gulari, Wayne State University
L. Louis Hegedus, Elf Atochem North America, Inc.
Andrew Kaldor, Exxon R&D Laboratories
Flint Lewis, American Chemical Society
Robert L. Lichter, The Camille & Henry Dreyfus
Foundation, Inc.
Mary Mandich, Bell Laboratories
Robert S. Marianelli, Office of Science and Technology
Policy
Tobin J. Marks, Northwestern University
Joe J. Mayhew, Chemical Manufacturers Association
William S. Millman, U.S. Department of Energy
Karen W. Morse, Western Washington University
Norine E. Noonan, U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency
Janet G. Osteryoung, National Science Foundation
Nancy Parenteau, Organogenesis, Inc.Gary W.
Poehlein, National Science Foundation
Michael E. Rogers, National Institute of General
Medical Sciences
Hratch G. Semerjian, National Institute of Standards
and Technology
Peter J. Stang, University of Utah
D. Amy Trainor, Zeneca Pharmaceuticals
Jeanette M. Van Emon, U.S. EPA National Exposure
Research Laboratory
Isiah M. Warner, Louisiana State University
Roundtable Staff: Ruth McDiarmid, Susan R.
Morrissey, Sybil A. Paige, Douglas J. Raber
WOMEN IN THE CHEMICAL
WORKFORCE
A Workshop Organized by the
CHEMICAL SCIENCES ROUNDTABLE
National Research Council
Lecture Room
National Academy of Sciences
Washington, DC
Wednesday-Thursday
May 3-4, 2000
Scholarly research underpins understanding of
minorities functioning in majority groups and has
clarified typical behavior of both the minority and
the majority. This understanding is in some
regards institutionalized in human resources
departments in large companies, but is unknown in
academic chemistry departments. The fact is that
the greatly increased number and proportion of
degrees in chemistry obtained by women at all
levels have not
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Workshop Organizing Committee
Robert S. Marianelli and Janet G. Osteryoung,
Co-Chairs; Marcetta Y. Darensbourg, Richard
M. Gross; Robert L. Lichter, Michael E. Rogers,
Hratch G. Semerjian, Marion C. Thurnauer, and
D. Amy Trainor