The Equity Equation presents to findings and recommAndations of the foremost experts on research and practice concerning women in science, engineering, and mathematics. It addresses issues facing women in the scientific disciplines, including: *involvement in education and careers as it relates to diversity, along lies of race, class, sexual orientation, physical and learning disability, and age *institutional attitudes, interactions, and structure *barriers to success at the career stage *effectiveness of current intervention and curriculum strategies *the relationship between public policies and institutional change.