Reflecting on Fifty Years of Progress for Women in Science
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Hopkins, Nancy H.
Date Issued
March 2015
Journal
DNA and Cell Biology
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Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
Citation
Hopkins, Nancy. “Reflecting on Fifty Years of Progress for Women in Science.” DNA and Cell Biology 34, no. 3 (March 2015): 159–161.
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Abstract
Like young women today, 50 years ago I too assumed that gender discrimination in science was a thing of the past. Girls who grew up in America in the Sputnik era, as I did, were encouraged to become scientists. By 1964, when I graduated from college with a major in biology, I thought it entirely possible I’d win a Nobel prize. Why not? Dorothy Hodgkin won one that year. At Harvard, my professors had strongly encouraged me to go to graduate school. When I finished my postdoc in 1973, I was actively recruited to the MIT faculty. What were those feminists complaining about?
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology
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https://doi.org/10.1089/dna.2015.2803
