As Sara points out, it is certainly false that there are no women actively engaged with sundials. But it is true that few women participate in the dialogues on our list. And it is also true that men are much more in evidence as active dialists (as opposed to long-suffeing spouses of dialists!) at the meetings of national societies that I have attended. It would be interesting to know, however, what percentages of the membership of various national sundial societies are women. Whatever the numbers I would certainly not draw any inferences from them about the procilivity of either sex for abstract thinking. But the results might get us thinking what we could do to encourage women to participate. Do women members of the list have any thoughts on this? -Len Berggren
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Schechner, Sara <[email protected]>wrote: > Hey, hey, I just wrote in to the list a day ago. J But I’ll grant you > that some of us are rather quiet online because we are too busy with other > things—like cataloguing sundials in museums. > > > > Sara (a woman last I checked) > > > > *Sara J. Schechner, Ph.D. * > > David P. Wheatland Curator of the Collection of Historical Scientific > Instruments > > Department of the History of Science, Harvard University > > Science Center 251c, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 > > Tel: 617-496-9542 | Fax: 617-496-5932 | [email protected] > > http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hsdept/chsi.html > > > > > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > *On Behalf Of *Marcelo > *Sent:* Thursday, March 10, 2011 6:13 PM > *To:* Sundial List > *Subject:* Where are the women? > > > > I've just noticed that, as long as I remember, there is no female > participation in this mailing list. As I study in the Astronomical and > Geophysical Institute at the University of Sao Paulo, where we lack not of > the gracious presence of women - there are more men here, but women are > expressive too - I strange their absence from our astronomical inquiries and > conversations. Maybe there is some truth in that old cliché of men being > more prone to math and abstration than them? > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > > > -- J. L. Berggren Professor Emeritus Department of Mathematics Simon Fraser University 8888 University Dr. Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6 phone: 604-936-2268 fax: 604-936-2168
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