Women in geology, continued

I've written optimistically about women in geology and have always urged girls to learn about and enter the field. But the high-end teaching/research careers are still drastically short in women, and the situation is as bad as or worse than other branches of science. You can explore the problem in various papers, but I think it's also interesting and helpful to follow the blogs. The new journal Nature Geoscience published a paper in its February issue, "Gender imbalance in US geoscience academia," that has aroused commentary. Julia Heathcote, writing as The Ethical Palaeontologist, was among the first, and other worthy responses have come from The Dynamic Earth and Kim Hannula at All of My Faults Are Stress-Related. And Christie chimed in, probably by pure coincidence, with a rave review of a female physicist's autobiography. All are food for thought.