francis collins joins me now. welcome back to the "newshour".ou,nks, great to be w willia >> reporter: i guess in the uld plague the sciences aso well, buthe numbers judy cited about the number of women in these fields who claim they hava beavin victim of these crimes is striking. why is it so bad in the science snls. >> i think the sciences are male dominated tradition that's change bug not quickly enough. most to have the senior leadership and academic institution tends to be male, and that kind of culture, th, encourages this willingness for what can sometimes be more btle forms of gender harassment but sometimes also provides the kind of ennmvit where other sexual coercion activities may happen. weeed to change that, a that's one of the messages from that national academy report. >> reporter: in male dominated fields, and we've seen this in e military and other ways where women have moved in, is ia ly because women are moving into more traditionally male-dominated field or is it simply that the men just don't appreciate that they can't tact

francis collins is director of the national institutes of health, the largest biomedical research he udget that funds more than 400,000 researchers world-wide. >> clinton: dr. collins, please come up to the lectern. the n.i.h. in 2000 when he made a landmark announcement: after a decade of work, scientists had finally decoded the genes that make up a human being. >> dr. collins: today, we celebrate the revelation of the first draft of the human book of life. >> lapook: when did it all start for you? >> dr. collins: i got excited about genetics as a first-year medical student. a pediatric geneticist came to teach us about how genetics was relevant to medicine. and he brought patients to class, and one of the first patients he brought was a young man with sickle cell disease who talked about the experience of sickle cell crises and how incredibly painful those are. and yet, it was all because of one single letter in the d.n.a. that is misplaced, a "t" that should have been an "a." and that was profound. you could have all of that happen because of one letter that was misspelled. >> lapo

francis collins joins me now.come back to th "newshour". >> thanks, great to be with you, william. >> reporter: i guess in the ague the sciences problemso well, but the numbers judy cited out the number of women in these fields who claim they have been a havin victim of these crs striking. why is it so bad in the science snls. >> i think the sciences e male dominated traditionally. that's change bug not quickly enough. most to have the senio leadership and academic institution tends to be male, and that kind of culture, then, encourages this willingness for what can sometimes be more subt g forms ofender harassment but sometimes also provides the kind evironment where other sexual coeviion aces may happen. we need to change that, and that's one of the messages from at national academy report. >> reporter: in male dominated fields, and we've seen this in the mittary and oher ways where women have moved in, is it partly bause women are moving into more traditionally male-dominated fields, or is it n'tply that the me

francis scott key development project. let's see...any board delegates membership organization reports? okay. and we are going to appoint commissioner collins and commissioner lam to the c.s.b. any other reports by board members? and we're also reappointing -- reappointing commissioner norton. >> commissioner norton: thank you. >> president cook: you're welcome. thank you. let's see...we have a calendar of committee meeting. budget and business services will be meeting wednesday, march 6, at 6:00 p.m. buildings and grounds will be meeting monday, march 25, at 6:00 p.m. that's by far the best committee meeting. >> vice president sanchez: better than rules? >> president cook: not even close. rules policy and legislation will be meeting monday, march 4 at 5:00 p.m. the ad hoc committee on student assignment will be meeting monday, march 18 at 6:00 p.m. the ad hoc committee on personnel matters will be meeting wednesday, march 13 at 6:00 p.m., and the ad hoc school district city college joint committee will be meeting to be determined. let's see, section m, other informational items? posted in the agenda is the staff quality reports. section n,