[Wism-l] Women's Acceptance in Physics and Astronomy - Meg Urry in the Washington Post

[Flora Grabowska]

I'm passing this on without having read beyond the paragraph below 
but it does sound interesting.

Flora
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A very interesting article by astronomer Meg Urry appeared in
yesterday's Outlook Section of the Washington Post.

  Brenda

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Diminished By Discrimination We Scarcely See

By Meg Urry
Sunday, February 6, 2005; Page B04

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A360-2005Feb5.html

I came of age when discrimination was a thing of the past, or so I thought.
True, there were not many women in my college physics classes, but I figured
that was just a matter of time. And although we had all heard horror stories
about women being excluded because they were women, those predated the
feminist movement of the '60s and the anti-discrimination legislation of the
'70s. None of my peers or professors in the early '80s would ever have said
out loud, "Women can't do physics as well as men" even though some think it
and Harvard University President Larry Summers suggested as much last month.


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