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ANY woman who opts for a scientific career will quickly find that the statistics are stacked against her. Although women now make up nearly 40% of the U.S. labor force, they account for only 10% of the nation's more than 350,000 scientists. Furthermore, women in the sciences...
The S.F.C.C. has no mother general, much less a mother house, since it owns no real estate. Each sister makes a home for herself, sometimes shared with one or two other members, finds her own job and pays her own taxes. Each writes a private commitment to Christ instead of...
She remembers that her mother was determined to have her enter a profession. "Mother said, 'When you educate a man, you educate an individual. When you educate a woman, you educate a family.'" After graduating from Ohio State, she shipped off aboard a Norwegian freighter as a dishwasher...
TRAINING. This situation may change as more women go to law school. The 8,680 women studying law in 1971 constituted 9.3% of the total number of law students-an increase from 3.6% in 1960. Contrary to the popular stereotype, one study of women law graduates over a period of...
Discussions about the shortage of doctors and the poor distribution of them invariably get around to un used woman power. Then accusatory fingers are pointed at medical schools and the profession's elders for having long discouraged women from en tering the field. However, this kind of discrimination has...