Len
Please see today`s Op Ed article by Margaret Wente in the `Globe and
Mail` on `The real barriers to women in science`.
She concludes that the answers are not as easy as we like to think.
Brian Albinson
On 03/10/2011 3:46 PM, Len Berggren wrote:
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] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[email protected]>
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hsdept/chsi.html
<http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Ehsdept/chsi.html>
*From:*[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[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?
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