The unfairer sex?

SCIENCE, popular prejudice often has it, is a man's world. These days that is not actually true of many disciplines, particularly biological ones. But some, though not all, recent research has suggested women are indeed still discriminated against by the processes of recruitment and advancement on which scientific careers are built--especially in fields such as engineering, mathematics and physics that remain male bastions. The results of an experiment conducted by Wendy Williams and Stephen Cec...