<strong>December 2014 News</strong>

Keep Asking the Question. Nature. December 18, 2014. Volume 516.
<a href="http://info.vtc.vt.edu/best/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Nature-Editorial-on-the-Scienctific-Workforce.pdf"><u><em>Nature </em>Editorial on the Scientific Workforce</u></a>
Scientists must push to preserve a small part of a large US survey that provides essential information on the ever-changing scientific workforce.

<a href="http://info.vtc.vt.edu/best/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Science-Careers-Story-on-Recent-Findings.pdf"><u><em>Science Careers</em> Story on Recent Findings That Women and Minorities Are Less Interested in Academic Research Careers</u></a>
Recently, we reported on research showing that gender discrimination does not explain the low percentage of women in math-based fields. The data show that women applicants are at least as likely as men to be hired for those jobs, but women are less likely to apply. Why?


