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Many of my friends are scientists.
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Scientists
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Parents don't want their kids to be nerdy.
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Nerdy
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I write and teach creative nonfiction. I was a reporter.
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Nonfiction
Reporter
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When I was growing up, I wanted passionately to be a physicist.
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Physicist
Growing Up Up Wanted
Passionately
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Knowing how to tactfully criticize someone's work is a mentor's job.
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Criticize
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For women, even if she's nerdy enough to be Steve Jobs, she's undateable.
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Nerdy
Steve
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As a physics major at Yale in the 1970s, I developed crushes on nearly all my male professors.
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Physics
Professors
Crushes
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My parents didn't know how to provide me with the encouragement I needed to achieve my dreams.
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Encouragement
Dreams Me Parents
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In America, nobody's boyfriend wants them to be smarter than he is, and no one wants to admit it.
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Boyfriend
Smarter
Admit
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Most applicants to creative writing programs submit stories about the angst of their suburban childhoods.
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Angst
Creative Writing
Submit
Childhoods
Programs
Suburban
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If you're the only anything in the room, you're going to feel so self-conscious of your right to be there.
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Self Conscious
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The truth is, the less a subject had to do with the visible world, the more talented I was at solving problems.
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Visible
Talented
Solving
Visible World
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The most powerful determinant of whether a woman goes on in science might be whether anyone encourages her to go on.
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Most Powerful
Encourages
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Writers find common ground not through the homelands they once inhabited but the thematic questions with which they grapple.
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Common Ground
Thematic
Inhabited
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If there's a stereotype that you're not supposed to be good at something, that still gets so badly in your way of concentrating.
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Concentrating
Stereotype
Good Your Way
Badly
Good Way Your
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Combating any kind of obstacle is much easier if you know that it's real and not your fault, and it's something you can fight against.
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Obstacle
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I was nearly as far behind in calculus as I was in physics. But I wasn't the only woman in the class, so I felt more comfortable asking questions.
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Asking Questions
Calculus
Physics
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Science and math are hard for everybody, and it's usually not a matter or being born gifted at it or not. It's hard work, but it can be a lot of fun!
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Math
Work Science Hard Work
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For the individual and for society, the more diversity you have in a field means more ways of solving a problem as well as more creativity and originality.
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Originality
Solving
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I miss my former teachers, John Hersey and James Alan McPherson. I would love to see either or both and ask what I could do to improve, to deepen my writing.
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Former
Alan
Deepen
James
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Judging the political climate in my state by walking around lefty Ann Arbor is like a polar bear judging global warming by staring at the ice cube beneath its feet.
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Global Warming
Ice
Judging
Bear
Beneath
Cube
Ice Cube
Lefty
Polar
Political Climate
Warming
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If you're a white male growing up in this society, you're constantly receiving encouragement to go on in science in the form of all the images that you're receiving.
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Encouragement
Receiving
Images
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If a person's self-worth derives from being the only woman in the field, how much affection can she feel toward another woman who might challenge that claim to fame?
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Affection
Another Woman
Self Worth
Claim
Derives
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When you have different kinds of scientific and mathematical minds approaching problems, you will get more solutions. This leads to more innovation and more creative design.
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Different Kinds
Innovation
Mathematical
Solutions
Approaching
Leads
Scientific
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Wandering the book fair at AWP is a great way to get acquainted with a wide sampling of the diverse journals that are out there and the wide sampling of people who produce them.
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Diverse
Sampling
Wide
Great People Way
Acquainted
Great Way
Wandering
Journals
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Figuring out why people who choose not to do something don't in fact do it is like attempting to interview the elves who live inside your refrigerator but come out only when the light is off.
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Attempting
Elves
Figuring
Interview
Refrigerator
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We forget how recently astronomers figured out what the stars are made of, what makes them shine, how distant they are, how they are born, and whether they remain immutable or evolve and die.
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Distant
Figured
Immutable
Shine
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When parents ask why there are still so few girls in advanced science and math classes in high school, I tell them, because girls still need way more encouragement than boys to take those courses.
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Encouragement
Courses
Math
Advanced
Classes
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If a female student wants to drop a physics course, no one questions her, but if a male student tries to drop it, he will get pushback and encouraged to stay in, since he will need it later in life.
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Physics
Drop
Encouraged
Tries
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All the societal pressures that make girls feel as if they're too smart, especially in the sciences - 'No one will date them. They won't be popular.' - don't apply to boys. The boys are being encouraged.
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Date
Encouraged
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Societal
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Success in math and the hard sciences, far from being a matter of gender, is almost entirely dependent on culture - a culture that teaches girls math isn't cool and no one will date them if they excel in physics.
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Dependent
Math
Physics
Date
Entirely
Excel
Sciences
Teaches
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I don't usually feel threatened by the militias. Most members are just indulging their fantasies of being warriors without having to sign up for the Army. They want to be heroes and save their neighbors from disaster.
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Army
Disaster
Threatened
Heroes
Fantasies
Indulging
Neighbors
Warriors
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We still raise girls to look to other people for assurance they are attractive and smart, while boys are raised to determine their own value. Many girls are still made to feel it's not feminine to be good at science or math.
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Assurance
Attractive
Determine
Feminine
Math
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When I was in seventh grade, I was bored out of my mind. We seemed to be learning the same things over and over in science and math, and two of the boys in my class were allowed to move ahead into these advanced classes, but I wasn't allowed because I was a girl.
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Bored
Math
Advanced
Classes
Grade
Same Things
Seventh
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My brother had been given a chemistry set for his bar mitzvah, but he wasn't interested in it. It was upstairs in the attic, and I would sneak up there and use it at great peril because I was afraid if he found out, he would get very angry at me, but he didn't seem to care.
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Bar Mitzvah
Chemistry
Mitzvah
Peril
Sneak
Upstairs
Attic
Bar
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Given that many girls are indoctrinated to believe that they should be feminine and modest about their abilities, as well as brought up to assume that girls are not innately gifted at science or math, it is not surprising that so few can see themselves as successful computer scientists.
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Feminine
Math
Modest
Surprising
Assume
Innately
Scientists
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I think women need to hear more encouragement in any field, because I see it - I teach creative writing. And even though it's mostly women in the room, they're not often - or they didn't used to be the ones who went on to publish books. I know this sounds like a tautology, but encouragement is the key.
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Encouragement
Creative
Creative Writing
Teach
Mostly
Sounds
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When I was in 7th grade, we were all given an exam. It was science and math, and the boys who did well were skipped ahead so that when they got to be juniors or seniors in high school they would be able to go to the local community college and take calculus and physics there. And I wasn't skipped ahead.
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Calculus
Community College
Exam
Juniors
Local Community
Math
Physics
Grade
Seniors
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To make computer science more attractive to women, we might help young women change how they think about themselves and what's expected of them. But we might also diversify the images of scientists they see in the media, along with the decor in the classrooms and offices in which they might want to study or work.
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Attractive
Computer
Computer Science
Study
Young Women
Change Work Science
Classrooms
Diversify
Images
Offices
Scientists
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