Monday, December 03, 2007
Because now 170 of us graduate annually
Today as I was walking into the building, I was looking at the majestic old pine trees and enormous magnolias and thinking about how this campus probably didn't look that different fifty years ago: the same brick buildings with tall white columns and the same flowing tide of undergraduates rushing to class. Then I realized one thing that would have been different: I wouldn't have been part of it. Fifty years ago it was almost unheard of for a woman to get a PhD in physics. (The best statistics I could find showed about 8 physics PhDs conferred to women in the entire country in 1958.) So, although I like to consider myself a fighter, that kind of battle would have done me in. I'm grateful to be living now, studying something that I (on alternate Tuesdays) enjoy.
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You are to be commended for being a true warrior - never having surrendered - and ultimately having triumphed.
it's good to appreciate the things we have, especially the ones we tend not to overlook.
And don't belittle your work - women are still scarce in the sciences!
170 still doesn't seem like all that much to me.
yea for Rene Michelle
Incredible isn't it. And, I agree with Stef, 170 is still a very tiny number. We are so proud of your accomplishments!
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