Papers from a conference held by the New York Academy of Sciences and cosponsored by the Educational Foundation of Association for Women in Science on March 6-8, 1978. Includes bibliographical references.

Research challenges and opportunities / Richard M. Krause -- Women in academe : why it still hurts to be a woman in labor / Bernice Resnick Sandler -- Women in science-related activities / Philip H. Abelson -- Women in physics and astronomy / Vera Kistiakowsky -- The changing status of women in the geosciences / Theresa F. Schwarzer -- Women in psychology in the United States / Florence L. Denmark -- The peak of the pyramid : women in dentistry, medicine and veterinary medicine / Amber B. Jones and Eileen C. Shapiro -- Women in engineering revisited / Naomi J. McAfee -- The status of women in mathematics / Gloria C. Hewitt -- Women in the biological sciences / Elizabeth M. O'Hern -- Scientific sexism / Lilli S. Hornig -- Expanding the Role of women in the biomedical sciences / Alexander G. Bearn -- Changing attitudes toward women in the profession of chemistry / Alan C. Nixon -- A certain restlessness / Esther A.H. Hopkins -- Careers in industry for scientifically trained women / Ivy M. Celender -- Implications of equality / Anna J. Harrison -- Redress of grievances / Helen C. and Robert E. Davies -- The new feminism and the medical school milieu / Mary C. Howell -- Development of feminist networks in the professions / Arlene Kaplan Daniels -- Strategies for change : a summary / Judith A. Ramaley -- Introduction to pt. 5 / Marie Mullaney Cassidy -- Filters for women in science / Jewel Plummer Cobb -- Feminism in academia : its problematic and problems / Ruth Hubbard -- Implications of giving women a greater share of academic decision-making / Ellen C. Weaver -- Innovative approaches : meeting the needs of women faculty in the eighties / Diane Ida Marinez -- The role of the National Science Foundation / F. James Rutherford -- How a scientist who happens to be female can succeed in academia / Diane Haddock Russell -- From clerk-typist to research physicist / Shirley A. Jackson -- Academics, bluestockings, and biologists : women at the University of Chicago, 1892-1932 / Diana Long Hall -- Psychological challenges confronting women in the sciences / Ruth Moulton -- An agenda to further expand the role of women in science and technology / Ethel Tobach -- Equal opportunity for women in science / Sheila M. Pfafflin.