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pllshed much, wtlh cvon more
kudos to como, but what about
their female students?
"If you go to any physics
class above a freshman level,
you will find no women in
there," Richmond said "I don't
think that's so much a reflec
tion on physics as a reflection
that women undergraduates
don't recognize the fabulous ca
reer opportunities that you tain
hove if you get a degree in sci
ence.”
Other areas don't fair much
better. Richmond said the
Chemistry department has
many talented women under
graduates, but few of them pur
sue graduate school and a ca
reer in science.
It was an eye on the career
opportunities in science, com
bined with a love of science,
that kept Richmond a science
major.
"1 didn't see many fields of
fering me a job when 1 got out."
she said. "I figured that if I was
good at science, I could do basi
cally anything."
Role models ruin also make a
big difference in whether fe
male students pursue the sci
ences, although these women
persevered with no women sci
ence faculty to look up to.
Hawley said she gruw up
with three brothers who shared
her love of science and the IJ.S.
Space Program, and that as a
student she was oblivious to
the absence of women faculty
in her major.
"For some reason, that I
don't understand now, it didn't
discourage me,” she said.
"Now 1 look back and it seem
strange to me that it didn't tx:
cur to me at the time."
Allhough Richmond also got
past not having a female role
model as u student, she said
there are still few women she
can emulate. And the numbers
of women in science aren't
changing rapidly enough to
make a significant dent.
"1 think the University of Or
egon is unusual in the number
of women it has," she said, "so
female students should las tak
ing advantage of it."
Douglus said role models
come on two levels: first,
knowing it ts possible to sue
coed in a certain field because
of the presence of the sumo race
or gender who have made ft;
and second, forming a support
ive relationship with one of
these people.
Hawley said she has noticed
a lack of mentors. Mentors can
help young scientists get speak
ing engagements and opportu
nities to publish in scientific
journals.
"I can't think of any women
in the field at my stage who's
been promoted in that way. but
Ucan think of a number of men
who have." she said. "Maybe
it’s a coincidence, but 1 doubt
»*! ‘ ’
Douglas said the absence of
women scientists says some
thing socially more than every
thing.
"I think the presence of
women in the field is not just
simply so that women who
want to he scientists will be
able to tie scientists, I think it's
for the good of the society." sin;
said. "Any kind of person
should be able lo be what they
want to be.”
Not only have women sci
ence faculty been able to flour
ish in a mole-dominated field,
but some of thorn are success
fully juggling families us well
Richmond, who wanted chil
dren hut could not abandon her
research group, used her clout
to combine the best of both
worlds She takes tier 6-month
old son, Brian, to work with
her.
Richmond did the same with
her 2-year-old, hut said an as
sistant professor struggling to
get tenure would not lie able to
pull this off
"The child care on this cam
pus for faculty and staff is aw
ful.'' she said. "I've been able
to piece this together because l
wouldn't accept anything less I
also have the power to say I
wouldn't jiut up with anything
less."
Richmond. !!«, said she
would not have had kids if she
did not have the option of hav
ing them cured for at work Or,
she might have done something
illegal like sneaking them in
the back door.
"I would have worked it out
in some way. but there would
have been a lot of bUxxishod in
the process if 1 hadn’t been able
to bring them in,” she said
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