November Monthly Meeting
Wednesday, November 17, 1999
Embassy Suites Hotel, Blue Ash
Sponsored by Henkel Corporation, Chemical Group

Featured Speaker

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Ms. Madeleine Jacobs will review data for the past three decades concerning the progress of women chemists, discuss the reasons that are usually given to explain the data, and describe a plan of action for women - and -men - chemists in the new millennium. Among the questions she will address are: How much has changed for women chemists in the past three decades? How much has the salary gap between men and women been narrowed? How much progress has been made in breaking through the glass ceiling at universities and in corporate boardrooms? Can women chemists, especially those with children, really balance a personal life with a professional life? Are things really better? And what are the prospects for the new millennium? Is it business as usual? What can each of us do to make a difference?

Madeleine Jacobs is the first woman to be appointed editor (and editor-in-chief) of Chemical & Engineering News magazine, the weekly newsmagazine of the chemical world published by the American Chemical Society for its members and other interested professionals. The magazine, with its staff of 41 people in seven news bureaus around the world, celebrated its 75th anniversary in 1998. The current audited circulation is about 150,000. She came to this position by a rather circuitous route. Jacobs majored in chemistry at George Washington University and graduated with a B.S. in chemistry with honors and distinction (Phi Beta Kappa in her junior year) in 1968. Although accepted by Stanford University to pursue a doctorate in chemistry, Jacobs stayed in Washington because of pressing family matters. Instead, she carried out graduate work in organic chemistry for a year at the University of Maryland before joining the staff of C&EN in 1969. There, she was an assistant editor and writer both in the Washington, D.C., office of C&EN and on the West Coast, where she covered 10 western states. She worked at C&EN for three years.

In 1972, she worked at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases as a writer and editor. In 1974, she joined the staff at the National Bureau of Standards (now NIST) where she rose to the position of chief of media liaison and general publications. In 1979, she joined the Smithsonian Institution as the chief science writer, and was soon promoted to assistant director and then director of the Office of Public Affairs. She returned to C&EN in 1993 as managing editor. She was appointed editor in April 1995 and assumed her new position in July 1995.

A native of Washington, D.C., Jacobs has been married to an artist for 26 years and has a stepson, a daughter-in-law, and two grandchildren, Matthew Jr., 14, and John, 9. Her hobbies include cooking, photography, swimming, weight lifting, gardening, and writing poetry.

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