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Thanks to Pamela for the original link on gender issues, and the rest of
you for interesting responses. This is something near and dear to my
heart for many years now as a rare female physics major in college in
the early 1970s who went on to get a PhD in experimental physics from
Cornell (and then volunteered to build just one exhibit in 1991...)
FYI on the book project for others who might be interested in replying
to her: the author is a scientist by training, as she graduated with a
chemistry major from one of the countries very top colleges for science,
math and engineering majors (Harvey Mudd college in Claremont in
Southern California has only 750 students, so not many people have heard
of it-- they often beat out CalTech and other colleges in prestigious
competitions).
Short story from maybe 6-8 years ago: we do birthday parties here, and
a kindergarten boy told his mother to only invite the boys to his party
here as the girls wouldn't want to do science. She had him invite the
entire class. So here's a concerned, interested parent.. and somehow
her 6-year old son already knows that girls don't do science??
As a parent of three daughters (college age and beyond now) who
volunteered a lot in our schools over the years, especially with math
and science activities, I do have lots of anecdotal evidence that "the
rot" starts to kick in late in elementary school.. NY state requires
teachers to get Master's degrees for permanent certification. One
teacher told me that the most valuable course by far was one on gender
issues-- watching videotapes to see how boys and girls were treated
differently in classrooms, etc.
Very few girls go on in our high school to take CAD (Computer Aided
Drawing) for instance; my oldest was the only girl to take digital
electronics out of two classes of boys in ~1999. And this is in
enlightened, politically correct Ithaca, New York. At least it was ok
for her to do so-- in my day it was not socially correct that I did
better than the boys in math and science. I do see it gradually
improving over time here locally.
Kathy Krafft
Exhibit Projects Director
Sciencenter
Ithaca, NY
607-272-0600 ext 25
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> Subject:
> An invitation for female scientists/educators
> From:
> David Smith <[log in to unmask]>
> Date:
> Sat, 15 Jul 2006 21:10:10 -0400
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>This site describes a book project for which the author is seeking
>interviews with women in science or science education.
>http://www.nasw.org/users/lhall/wtga.html I have no connection to this
>project, just thought it might interest some of you.
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>Dave
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>David L. Smith, Ph.D.
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