What looks like a serious and important study on women in science was just released (as opposed to all the bogus studies on the degree of sexiness of ovulating women) and it found a whole lot of good news. In the past 40 years women have dramatically increased their representation in the sciences. Half of all M.D. degrees are awarded to women (and an astounding 77 percent of veterinary medicine degrees); slightly more than half of the doctorates in the life sciences go to women today – that figure was 13 percent in 1970. But still (pace Larry Summers) women lag in the math-based sciences such as engineering. But the authors of the study, Stephen J. Ceci and Wendy M. Williams of Cornell, conclude that a lot of time and money is being wasted to banish mostly non-existent sexism in the math-based sciences. They say one thing that keeps women out of these fields is an intrinsic preference for working with people as opposed to things. They say there should be more exposure for young women to mentors in these hard sciences, but if a choice is freely arrived at, it’s not a problem. Another major issue affecting all women pursuing research-based academic careers is what they see as a conflict between their ambition and their desire to have children.
The researchers say instead of searching for the last remnants of sexism, a new focus should be on reforming academia so that women still have the highest rungs open to them, while being able to take time off for child-bearing and child-rearing. I heard an interview not long ago with Nobel Prize winner for Medicine, Carol Greider, who said that as a young researcher she had complete confidence that she could do the science, she just didn’t know if she could also be a mother. She was lucky to have female mentors who convinced her she could do both. I hope this study gets widely discussed in academia so that universities can start making achievement more compatible with motherhood.
Governor Palin And The Israeli Fighter Pilot
Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin With Former Israeli Fighter Pilot Elan Frank
From September of 2008, this is a great article about a former Israeli fight jet pilot who filmed a documentary on three extraordinary women, including then Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin. Here is what I call the money quote:
“I have a lot of authentic footage that shows who she really is. You can tell a lot about her from that. She really is one of us.”- former Israeli fighter pilot turned film director , Elan Frank, speaking of Governor Sarah Palin.
From ynetnews.com
Sarah Palin mesmerizes Israeli filmmaker
Los Angeles-based director Elan Frank met Alaska’s governor, Republican vice-presidential hopeful several months ago while filming documentary about extraordinary women, and was hooked.
by Dana Zimmerman
“Sarah Palin is a very special woman. She has a tranquility about her, no matter what the situation is,” this is how Elan Frank, a California-based Israeli filmmaker, chooses to describe the Republican Party’s newly chosen vice-presidential hopeful.
Frank shadowed Palin, who is the presiding governor of Alaska, for three days some three months ago, as part of a documentary he made about extraordinary women around the world.
Frank, 52, has been living in Los Angeles for the past 12 years. He first visited Alaska in 1983, when he was given a year’s leave from the Israeli Air Force, where he served as a fighter pilot.
“I made it a point to come back to Alaska every three years or so, since. It’s a very hard country. The real final frontier. They have seven men for every woman, so I thought about making a film about women in Alaska. I did some research, and then I thought – ‘well, why focus only on Alaska? Why not focus on women worldwide and make a film about women empowerment?’”
Frank sent film crews to Nepal and the Negev, to follow two extraordinary women, and decided to follow three Alaskan women himself – a teacher, a pilot and the new governor.
“I wasn’t planning on focusing on famous characters, but Palin’s story is so unique I decided to include her. She is the first woman of Alaska, which isn’t something to be treated lightly; not to mention a former beauty queen, basketball player, fisherwoman and hunter – and a mother of four (Frank’s film followed Palin before she has her fifth child). I saw something amazing there,” he said.
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