>Gwynne Ellen Ash
This is fascinating to me and I would love to explore the idea of what in=
your
universe was different from the experience of most girls. My experience i=
s
=ECas well as the less anecdotal evidence in Holland & Eisenhart's *Educa=
ted in
Romance*U that it's more common for smart girls to "dumb down" (i.e. they=
go
to college, but major in elementary science education rather than science=
;
nursing/PT rather than pre-med; they stay in the college prep program, bu=
t
they don't win prizes; they take physics, but they don't enter the sci-Fa=
ir.
How do you think you managed to avoid this?
nancy morse-kelly
v1958g@vm.temple.edu