I'm glad to discover there are so many women here, and specially for having found Mrs. Schechner in the list. A member sent her article about sundials, published in the Journal for the History of Astronomy. I liked it very much. And the text about the difficulties for women scientists is pretty interesting. 2011/3/12 Jackie Jones <jac...@waitrose.com>
> > > Hi all, > > And me; I have posted a few comments on the site. I am otherwise rather > busy being membership secretary of the British Sundial Society as well as > also making small silver dials – www.silversundials.co.uk. I also > painted a large dial on the front of our house; a task many people thought > my husband did. Don’t women climb scaffolding? > > I think I am also correct that of the last 4 BSS sundial design > competitions, 3 have been won by women. > > Best wishes > > Jackie > > > > Jackie Jones > > 50° 50’ 09” N. 0° 07’ 40” W. > > PS How about more folk telling us where they are? > > > > > > *From:* sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de [mailto:sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de] > *On Behalf Of *Len Berggren > *Sent:* 10 March 2011 23:46 > *To:* Schechner, Sara > *Cc:* Sundial List > *Subject:* Re: Where are the women? > > > > As Sara points out, it is certainly false that there are no women actively > engaged with sundials. But it is true that few women participate in the > dialogues on our list. And it is also true that men are much more in > evidence as active dialists (as opposed to long-suffeing spouses of > dialists!) at the meetings of national societies that I have attended. It > would be interesting to know, however, what percentages of the membership of > various national sundial societies are women. > > Whatever the numbers I would certainly not draw any inferences from them > about the procilivity of either sex for abstract thinking. But the results > might get us thinking what we could do to encourage women to participate. > > Do women members of the list have any thoughts on this? > > -Len Berggren > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Schechner, Sara <sche...@fas.harvard.edu> > wrote: > > Hey, hey, I just wrote in to the list a day ago. J But I’ll grant you > that some of us are rather quiet online because we are too busy with other > things—like cataloguing sundials in museums. > > > > Sara (a woman last I checked) > > > > *Sara J. Schechner, Ph.D. * > > David P. Wheatland Curator of the Collection of Historical Scientific > Instruments > > Department of the History of Science, Harvard University > > Science Center 251c, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 > > Tel: 617-496-9542 | Fax: 617-496-5932 | sche...@fas.harvard.edu > > http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hsdept/chsi.html > > > > > > > > *From:* sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de [mailto:sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de] > *On Behalf Of *Marcelo > *Sent:* Thursday, March 10, 2011 6:13 PM > *To:* Sundial List > *Subject:* Where are the women? > > > > I've just noticed that, as long as I remember, there is no female > participation in this mailing list. As I study in the Astronomical and > Geophysical Institute at the University of Sao Paulo, where we lack not of > the gracious presence of women - there are more men here, but women are > expressive too - I strange their absence from our astronomical inquiries and > conversations. Maybe there is some truth in that old cliché of men being > more prone to math and abstration than them? > > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > > > > > -- > J. L. Berggren > Professor Emeritus > Department of Mathematics > Simon Fraser University > 8888 University Dr. > Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6 > phone: 604-936-2268 > fax: 604-936-2168 > ------------------------------ > > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1204 / Virus Database: 1497/3497 - Release Date: 03/10/11 > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > > >
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