Women in Science: A Developing Country

Authors

Doris Simonis, University of MontanaFollow

Document Type

Article

Abstract

Because teenaged girls generally avoid classes in physical sciences and advanced mathematics, they reduce their career options. Even highly talented young women do not pursue science in numbers proportionate to their share of the college student population.

One way of examining this problem of underrepresentation is to recognize that women have been effectively isolated from the kinds of encouragement, feedback and experiences that their brothers have had in family, educational, social and occupational situations. Independence in thought and action rarely wins praise for a girl, and mechanical as well as intellectual attainments are likely to get approval only if they are expressed in "feminine" arts and services. This "balkanization" of occupational choices and roles impoverishes many human endeavors.

Publication Date

September 1982

Journal Title

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Volume

19

Issue

2

First Page

14

Last Page

20

Copyright

© Copyright 1982 by the Iowa Academy of Science

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Simonis, Doris (1982) "Women in Science: A Developing Country," Iowa Science Teachers Journal: Vol. 19: No. 2, Article 10.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/istj/vol19/iss2/10