Lack of self-esteem hurts some women in grad school
By Karin Reyes
■ The California Aggie
U. of California, Davis
The number of women earning gradu
ate and doctoral degrees has almost
tripled since 1968, but research paints a
“bleak picture” of their experiences,
according to a doctoral candidate at the
California Primate Research Center
Subtle interpersonal problems exist,
such as the view that women are basical
ly attentive and passive whereas men are
seen as more creative, claims Linda
Scott, a doctoral candidate in anthropol
ogy and applied pnmatology. As a result,
she says men are more likely to receive
preferred jobs such as research assis
tantships with well-known scholars,
while their female counterparts are
offered teaching assistantships.
Computer no match
for skilled librarians
By Terrence H. O'Hara
■ Indiana Daily Student
Indiana U.
Computers never will replace the
need for the judgment of an experi
enced librarian, according to the
di rector of admissions and placement
for Indiana U.’s School of Library and
Information Science.
“The computer won’t make large
inroads into the profession,” says
Mary Krutulis. “A computer is only
as smart as the person using it.”
The number of librarians is expect
ed to grow more slowly than the aver
age of all other occupations through
the year 2000. But according to the
U.S. Department of Labor, the num
ber of people entering library science
programs at universities has been
declining since the mid-1970s. That
decline and the high number of
expected retirements assures a large
number of openings for students
studying library science.
Krutulis said a new type of librar
ian is emerging in the profession: the
information entrepreneur. The
entrepreneur owns a business that
specializes in assembling and orga
nizing information for businesses,
schools and governments.
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Auburn U. for 10 years, has noticed a
definite change in freshman girls’ living
habits. “Ten years ago there were no
answering machines and VCRs, now
most all the girls have them."
Davis says sometimes these “necessi
ties" cause problems among roommates
"We enjoy watching the same shows and
listening to the same music, but there
are people we know who often argue
about what movie they will rent'
The manager of Radio Shack in
Auburn, Chuck Waltman, says the shop
sells three times as many answering
machines today as they did eight years
ago. “VCRs are an expensive item to buy
on a college student’s budget, and that
is why we mainly sell answering
machines," he said.
Upperclassmen find themselves work
ing to catch up with this new generation
“I now have an answering machine, a
refrigerator twice the size of my first one,
and my suitemates have the VCR,
O’Brien says. “With all this stuff, 1 finally
feel complete.”
Publication rates also differ between
men and women. I oft'alifomia, Davis,
associate professor of zoology Catherine
Toft quoted the book Scnm< e Fair as sav
ing women publish “significantly less"
papers than men However, Tbft claims
the difference is due to a small percent
age of hyperproductive men.
In choosing a field of study, Scott says
women pick fields for “intellectual" rea
sons, while men choose for career rea
sons. A difference also occurs in the selec
tion of research topics, as women prefer
topics dealing with case studies and per
sonal problems and men focus on “large
scale empirical problems"
Married men and divorced women are
the most likely to complete their degrees,
Scott says, with 64 percent of male stu
dents and 24 percent of females married
Another factor that determines degree
completion lies in the choice of a mentor
Many women don't realize the impor
tance of picking a good one, says UC
Davis Assistant Professor Dina St flair
Because of negative' experiences with had
mentors, women usually drop out, sin
says.
The trend of women stopping at the
master’s level also is due to a “lack of sell
esteem and independence," St Clair
says By developing self-esteem and
being more assertive in choosing a men
tor, women will be more likely to finish
graduate school, she says
Forty-seven percent of students earn
ing advanced degrees in 1988 were
women, .is compared to 29 percent in
1968, according to the National Center
for Educational Statistics (iraduate
enrollment overall grew by 70 percent
during those 20 years
Number of women vs. men
completing graduate degrees
397,900
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