From a reader:

Dear Jonah,
Given your wife’s recent book on Title IX, I thought you might be interested
in this article in Chemical & Engineering News (a must-read in the chemistry
community — don’t laugh!):
In this piece, Prof. Dick Zare, the world-renowned spectroscopist from
Stanford, suggests that Title IX should be used to force universities –
especially chemistry departments — to increase their numbers of female
faculty or face loss of federal funding.
Obviously a concern for people in my and Prof. Zare’s male-dominated
sub-field of chemistry (physical chemistry) is that our areas of research
could suffer terribly under this proposal. Only 10-15% of chemistry faculty
are female, but the numbers are much lower in p-chem. This action could
conceivably be the death of research in many departments across the country.
As one of my collaborators said after reading this article: “This could doas much for physical chemistry as it did for men’s wrestling.”

* Of course, she’s always right.