Summers’ recent comments notwithstanding, women have found their places in science and mathematics and are encouraged to develop their potentials with less and less prejudice against them because of the fact that they are female. That trend continues in my own classrooms now and it is never surprising to find my class rolls listing more female than male names. Most of my classes in graduate school had as many if not more women students than men. She inscribed on the flyleaf, in part, this thought: “A book about a unique struggle by a scientifically curious mind.” It is telling that my mentor never used the word “woman” anywhere on this page she herself was a person of science merely passing along to me a book about another scientist who was to be respected and admired for great achievements.Īt that time, ten years ago, women were not oddities in science nor had they been for some time. committee, a woman, presented me with a brand new biography, Marie Curie A Life by Susan Quinn. Weaver, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biology Review of ' Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie' Vocatio Center for Life Calling and Career.Office of Student Leadership & Engagement.

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