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Preface

Executive Summary

Introduction

Goal 1: By the year 2000, all children in America will start school ready to learn

Goal 2: By the year 2000, the high school graduation rate will increase to at least 90…

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Part I: Reports of the Research

Women in Science: Where Do We Go From Here?
Jane Butler Kahle

Warming Up the Chilly Climate
Bernice Resnick Sandler

Women's Learning Styles and the Teaching of Mathematics
Judith…

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Governmental Restrictions on the Reasons Women Can Have Legal Abortions ("Sex Selection" and "Birth Control" abortions)

Teenagers' Access to Abortion Services

Equal Access to Abortion - Discrimination in Public Funding…

Discusses the findings of five studies of "first-generation" achievers in science and engineering (meaning that they have secured the skills, credentials and positions that men already have), and purports to provide empirical evidence for the…

Handbook on birth control and general principles of sex, sexuality, and conception: includes anatomical diagrams, discussion of the pros and cons of various birth control options, and their implications for women's health.

Discusses the dearth of and need for women in the higher levels of scientific fields. Provides strategies for specific constituencies, including science department chairs and senior faculty members, presidents, provosts and deans of colleges and…

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Editor's Note

Introduction

1. Women and Work Today

2. The Format of the Workshop

3. The Challenge to Change
The Challenge to Employers
The Challenge to Secondary Schools
Employer/Educator Cooperative Efforts

4.…

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1. Introduction and SUmmary
1.1 Professional Inequality
1.2 Social Inequality
1.3 Organization of the Report

2. What Happened to Us
2.1 Professional Identity
2.1.1 First a Woman, then a Professional
2.1.2 Invisibility…

Describes the foundation's efforts to support research into the causes and treatment of Down's Syndrome. Lists the official objectives of the fund.

Liberationist analysis of male economic domination, and the philosophy of male chauvinism that supports it. Includes an indictment of the scientization of sex differences and a critique of the concept of "the natural."