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"My career has been a winding path through different areas of the country and fields of natural science, but it has provided me with the background to approach these problems in the grape industry."

"There is a science and an art to winemaking," says Mark West. "The people that are successful are the ones who can use both."

It was universally accepted that there needed to be guidelines put into place for mentors and societies.

Scientific societies such as FASEB, funders including the NIH and NSF, and various scientific institutions agree about most of the major issues that need to be updated: stipend levels, healthcare benefits, term limits, and professional development. Now comes the hard part: making the changes.

"Unfortunately, even when women succeed in establishing an equilibrium between work and family, other problems still loom on the horizon, from less than adequate on-site day care to poor maternity leave policies."

Alarm bells are ringing over the status of women in academic science. A few institutions may be waking up.

"I remember, at one point, holding an integral sign in my hands because it peeled off," Gardner says. Stymied by wax, he decided to give embossing a try, and it worked.

"Now we really have to get to work... " Orfeu Buxton, member NPA Executive Committee

"Putting together new policies that overlie a system as large as the University of California is no easy task."