As the son and grandson of career-long employees of the US Geological Survey, I found this E. Tammy Kim article in The New Yorker tremendously sad to read: "At U.S.G.S. and other Interior agencies, thousands of emerging scientists saw their careers cut short. And, in fields such as geology and ecology, many were women. 'My graduate program, my cohort, was ten women and five men,' Mary said. 'Participation was being broadened among younger people.'"
