Science young women's expectations of how they will be able to allocate their time during adulthood between participation in the labor force and work in the home. One study, for example, finds that the more the young women expect continuous labor force participation during adulthood, the more their occupational goals approximate those of their male counterparts. Women's experience in the science and engineering work force also is decidedly different from that of men, the OTA report points out. Women's attrition rates are higher, their unemployment rates significantly higher, and their salaries significantly lower t h a n men's— although, the report notes, recent female entrants to the science and engineering work force are doing considerably better than their more senior counterparts. On minorities, OTA points out that blacks, Hispanics, and American Indians are affected by a vari-
ety of socioeconomic factors that lead to poor academic performance and an inability to remain in the science and engineering eduational pipeline. It notes, however, that despite those factors, there is considerable anecdotal evidence that welldesigned intervention programs can assist these groups in obtaining access to science and engineering careers. OTA concludes that despite the various problems, women's participation in science and engineering has increased dramatically in all fields and at all levels. There appear to be no inherent reasons, it says, why these increases should not continue. However, according to OTA, for blacks and Hispanics the causes of low participation are so deeply entwined with larger social and cultural factors that the prospects for further improvement without dramatic societal intervention do not appear very bright. Already, it notes, the rate of increase in par-
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ACS to launch new energy, fuels journal The American Chemical Society plans to launch a new jpurnal covering the area of energy and fuels research. Initially the journal—as yet unnamed—will be published every other month beginning in January 1987. "Our notion is to try to create a core journal in the fuel and energy area/' explains John W. Larsen, professor of chemistry at Lehigh University, and editor of the new journal. Larsen also has a part-time appointment doing fuel chemistry research at Exxon Research & Engineering's corporate research laboratories in Clinton, N.J. The new journal will publish research papers and possibly short reviews in a broad range of areas relating to fuel and energy research, Larsen explains. Areas that he expects it to cover include petroleum research, coal chemistry, tar sands, Ci chemistry, and methane research. The journal, Larsen explains, is not intended to replace specialized journals that already are providing a forum for research findings in particular aspects of this field. Rather, he says, "Anyone who is engaged in work in fuels science or fuel chemistry should be able to track the research frontier of the whole field in this one journal." The strengths of the new journal, as Larsen sees them, will be several. One will be its breadth. Another will be its affiliation with ACS, which likely assures that it will be well-reviewed and -edited and able to publish research findings relatively rapidly. A third will be what is expected to be a low subscription price, which will help the journal attract a wide audience. •
