Women and Physics by Laura McCullough

Author:Laura McCullough
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781681742779
Publisher: IOP Publishing
Published: 2016-03-27T16:00:00+00:00

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IOP Concise Physics

Women and Physics

Laura McCullough

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Chapter 4

What helps, what hurts: family and career

‘I’m excited because earlier I didn’t think about the issues between females and males in science. I see now that there’s so much that can stop a woman from getting a career compared to a man. With men you’re expected to do well and get the support, but for females, you have to sacrifice something in a different way from men, and I didn’t realize that earlier. I think it’s very important for other woman to see that I have had success.’

— May-Britt Moser, 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine

Once a woman has a degree or two in physics, what are her options? Does she choose a job in industry, academia, government? Does she stay in a physics-related position? Does she stay in the workforce at all? In this chapter we will explore what happens to women in physics as they graduate and head into the workplace.

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