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HISTORY & MISSION
The Board on Women and Minorities falls under the Commission
on Education and Human Resources.The first Board meeting was held in 1975.
Since then, board members have been charged with examining workplace issues,
including educational and professional opportunities, that affect those
employed in the atmospheric and related sciences for all segments of the
Society, with special emphasis on women, minorities, and the disabled.
AMS
DIVERSITY STATEMENT
The American Meteorological Society promotes the participation
of a full and diverse community in all activities of the Society on the
basis of professional attributes alone. Such activities include publications,
meetings, conferences, education, awards and honors, and employment. The
Society firmly believes that discrimination based on any non-merit factor
will prevent the Society from reaching its full potential. Accordingly,
it is the policy of the Society to encourage the fullest diversity of
its participants and to ensure that all of the Society's activities will
be carried out free of non-merit discriminatory practices.
DID
YOU KNOW...
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There is substantial
evidence that attitudes toward gender and work are affected by textbooks
and the attitudes of teachers, parents, and other adults
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By 2010, 1 of
every 4 new jobs will be technology oriented. (National Science Foundation)
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The ratio of boys
to girls computer camps is 3:1. While more young men than young women
enroll in high school math and science classes, girls who do enroll
perform as well as their male classmates. (Women Helping Girls with
Choices, Advocacy Press, 1989, p. 13)
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The National Science
Foundation reported that women represented 24% of the science and engineering
workforce in 1999.
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The US Patent and
Trademark office reported that percentage of female patentees expanded
to 10.3% in 1998, up from less than 3% in the early 80s.
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