A Workshop on Attracting and Retaining Women Into Faculty Positions in Research Universities; October 5-7, 2005; Washington, DC

加州大学洛杉矶分校的Ken Houk和哈佛大学的Cynthia Friend在美国国家科学基金会化学分部特别项目办公室的支持下，组织了一个名为“开发女性学术化学人才库”的研讨会。研讨会将(1)讨论和记录学术化学中女性的短缺和对更多女性化学教员的需求；(2)使参与者能够分享吸引女性进入学术化学事业的行之有效的方法；(3)探索吸引女性进入美国主要研究机构化学系的新途径。尽管最近获得化学本科和博士学位的女性人数大幅增加（目前分别约为50%和33%），但化学系的女性教师人数仍然很少。研讨会将提供证据表明，当学术化学教师来自一个更大、更多样化的人才库时，研究和教学得到了改善。该研讨会被认为不仅在化学领域，而且在其他学科领域具有潜在的广泛影响。

Ken Houk of UCLA and Cynthia Friend of Harvard University are supported by the NSF Chemistry Division's Special Projects Office to organize a workshop on "Tapping the Female Talent Pool for Academic Chemistry." The workshop will (1) discuss and document the shortage of women in academic chemistry and the need for more women on chemistry faculties; (2) enable sharing among participants of proven means for attracting women into academic chemistry careers; and (3) explore new ways to draw women to chemistry faculties at major research institutions in the U.S.Chemistry departments continue to have low numbers of female faculty members despite considerable increases in recent undergraduate and doctorate chemistry degrees to women (currently about 50% and 33 %, respectively). The workshop will present evidence that research and teaching are improved when academic chemistry faculties come from a larger and more diverse talent pool. The workshop is viewed as having potentially broad impact not only within chemistry, but other disciplines as well.