tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3176156914766269523.post6030514774289131967..comments2023-11-25T09:41:24.176-08:00Comments on Lynda Lovon: Women's History MonthLynda Lovonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090293854050613903noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3176156914766269523.post-55547949694298916832011-04-04T01:04:16.143-07:002011-04-04T01:04:16.143-07:00The sorry state of our public education, especiall...The sorry state of our public education, especially regarding the recognition of female scientists, is apparently a nation-wide problem. Here is a biology prof in Minnesota who conducted a similar test, asking his students to list not one but ten female scientists in return for extra credit points on an exam: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/12/vignette_from_the_grading_wars.php <br />It seems SRJC students aren't the only ones who will come up with Marie Curie easily enough but couldn't list another 2 or 3 if their lives depended on it. (Coincidentally, Jane Goodall came in second). A naive idealist like myself might even hope that the names of female scientists would be _all the more_ remembered for having achieved success in a male-dominated field within a male-dominated society. It's not an accident of history, but a testament to the continued existence of a patriarchy that the names "Watson and Crick" are at the tip of every biology student's tongue, but the only Franklin she/he knows is Ben. (I'm talking about Rosalind). Fortunately, there are some brilliant women in science now... like perspicacious women teachers who double as entertainers, for example... whose work is helping to dispel the pater-saturated paradigm.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com