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With its 1992 elections, the members of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science now have
a majority of Section representatives who are women.
I know very little about the politics of the AAAS,
but it has interested me to watch this trend over
the past couple decades.  This year, at least half
of the elected representatives of the Sections on
	Agriculture
	Anthropology
	Astronomy
	Biological Sciences
	Chemistry
	Education
	Engineering
	General Interest in Science and Engineering
	History and Philosophy of Science
	Information, Computing, and Communication
	Mathematics
	Social, Economic, and Political Sciences
	Societal Impacts of Science and Engineering
and	Statistics
are women, and only in the Sections on
	Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences
	Dentistry
	Geology and Geography
	Industrial Science
	Medical Sciences
	Pharmaceutical Sciences
	Physics and
	Psychology
are men in an absolute majority.  I can speculate on all
sorts of causes and consequences of these facts; is there
anyone who has more definite knowledge?

I cross-post to sci.anthropology in the sense of "socio-
logy of science".  Please adjust follow-ups appropriately.
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Cameron Laird
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