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

[nafrank at vassar.edu]

One needs a login to read the article.  I found this one on bugmenot.com:

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> I'm passing this on without having read beyond the paragraph below
> but it does sound interesting.
>
> Flora
> ________________________________________________________________________
>
> A very interesting article by astronomer Meg Urry appeared in
> yesterday's Outlook Section of the Washington Post.
>
>   Brenda
>
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> 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.
>
>
> Article continues...
>
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