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Johanna Levelt Sengers stands at the top of her profession but confesses that " it can be a little lonely" as one of only two wo
Johanna Levelt Sengers stands at the top of her profession but confesses that " it can be a little lonely" as one of only two wo
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Johanna Levelt Sengers stands at the top of her profession but confesses that " it can be a little lonely" as one of only two women in the 82-member engineering sciences section of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences(NAS). A scientist emeritus at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, she belongs to both NAS and its partner, the National Academy of Engineering, where she’s one of seven women within the 173-member chemical engineering section. So in late 2004, when she was asked to co-chair an international panel on women in science with Manju Sharma of India, they decided to examine not just women’s place in society but also their status within the 90 national academies that had requested the report.
The report, posted last week by the Inter Academy Council(IAC), offers a refreshingly candid assessment of the problems facing women trying to enter and move up in the world of science and engineering. Although it strikes familiar chords about the need to remove barriers and increase opportunities for girls and women, it sings a new tune in commanding the national academies themselves to "
first put their own houses in order
. " In addition to choosing more women as members and leaders of their organizations, each national academy should form a standing committee on diversity to gather and discuss gender-related data, it says.
"Wow. This is far more hard-hitting and to the point than I had expected," says Donna Dean, president of the Association for Women in Science in Washington, D. C. , and a former senior administrator at the National Institutes of Health, who is now at the Washington, D. C. , science-lobbying firm of Lewis-Burke Associates. "It tells the various academies to stop pontificating about the right thing to do and start showing it in how they operate. "
The report was funded in part by a $50,000 grant from L’Oreal. Since 1998, the France-based cosmetics company has honored outstanding women scientists around the world—including five of the eight women on the 10-person IAC panel. Jennifer Campbell, who heads the company’s philanthropic efforts, says she would like to see across-the-board parity for women in science. But Levelt Sengers says she thinks that "a reasonable goal would be no major disparity between the percentage of Ph. D. degrees awarded to women in a particular field and the percentage elected in that field. " Most academies are a far cry from reaching even that level.
NAS President Ralph Cicerone says that there’s "no magic bullet" for adding women to the academy’s ranks but that NAS is trying to increase their chances of gaining the type of recognition—through service on academy panels, keynote speeches, and major scientific awards—that traditionally leads to NAS membership. NAS has no plans "to collapse its activities into one committee on gender issues," he says, adding that the challenge calls for "a sustained effort... along the entire pipeline."
According to Donna Dean,
选项
A、she didn’t expect the problem being so hard to tackle.
B、the work of the report is quite fruitful.
C、academies have the duty to inform people of the right thing to do.
D、common people know how they operate by instinct.
答案
B
解析
事实细节题。根据题干关键词Donna Dean出现的语境可定位至第三段。Donna Dean谈到“此举很到位,正是我所期望的”,也就是[B]所谈到的“报告的工作富有成果”,这里关键在于理解hard-hitting(准确的)一词和to the point than I had expected(正是我所期望的)的意思。因此选[B]。[A]与上句意思正好相反,故排除;该段最后一句提出“它也告诉那些学院不要板着面孔教训别人怎么去做”,而是要“向别人展示一下自己是怎么做的”,故排除[C]、[D]。
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