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Friday, April 24, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
THE FAR SIDE
By GARY LARSON
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The first trend is that majority of men and women drop out of science. The second trend is that the dropout rate for women far exceeds the men's rate, except in social and life sciences.
Science
The report said that few women received doctorate degrees in physical sciences or in engineering.
The program, COMETS - Career Oriented Modules to Explore Topics in Science - is used in elementary and junior high schools across the country. Smith said that no important evidence existed that said males were better in math or had superior science and math skills.
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Smith has developed a program designed to enhance science education, especially in young women and minority students.
He said that non-femininity associated with science had an influence on girls. Girls might experience a role conflict, thinking that a career in science isn't compatible with the roles of wife and mother they have been conditioned to fulfill.
"The problem is the image of science." Smith said.
"The kids can see that these scientists are interesting women," Smith said.
The role of parents in encouraging and supporting daughters' scientific efforts is important. Smith said. He
Smith said sex stereotypes were started at home and maintained all the time.
said that children picked up on images and messages from parents, even when nothing was said. Many girls have been subtly discouraged from scientific interests.
Bill Kelly teaches science to eighth and ninth graders at South Junior High School, 2734 Louisiana St. Keller said that at the junior high age, children weren't concerned with the direction of their classes. The young students are more interested in themselves and the opposite sex.
Comfort, who has switched back and forth between majors in physics and math, said she thought some college students subconscious dismissed science as an option. Opportunities for money and scholarship for science students are as available, if not more available, than awards available for students in other disciplines, she said.
Comfort's father is an aeronautical engineer. She said her father had always been supportive of her interests and was happy she chose a technical field because he saw so many opportunities for women.
Comfort's female role model, who greatly influenced her choice of major, graduated from the KU and is now studying at Cornell University
The report said relationships and activities had a negative effect on the commitment to majors women possessed.
on a fellowship from the National Science Foundation.
"The seeds that were planted and back again until I came back," Whigman said.
"She is a really nice person, who is interested in science and getting a lot out of it," Comfort said.
A study sponsored by the Department of Education and the National Institute of Education examined the role that college peer groups play in the formation of women's career paths.
The project found that, of those women who declared a math or science major in college, 45 percent were from the middle of their sophomore year, the middle of their sophomore year.
Mara Whitacre, Kansas City, Kan. graduate student, is in the computational physics master's degree program and would like to get a doctorate in astronomy.
Whitacre said she had always been good at math and particularly enjoyed science. But in high school, she had a bad math teacher and was burned out on the subject by the time she entered college, she said. She chose to major in psychology.
Whitacre also said she was influenced by a supportive family. Her father, who was a watchmaker, was influential in the development of her mechanical interests.
She came back to the study of science after working "in the real world" for about three years. She kept in touch with a professor she had worked with in college, and he helped to renew her interest in physics.
On Campus
An awards luncheon for the Snyder Book Collecting Contest is scheduled at noon today in the English Room at the Kansas Union.
A student recital with Turt Cryst, voice, is scheduled at 8 p.m. today in Swarthout Recital Hall at Murphy Hall.
- Janette Turner Hospital, Canadian novelist, will be at an English department reading scheduled at 4 p.m. today at 4002 Wesco Hall.
■ Lindley Hall Observatory is scheduled to have an open house at 9 p.m. today if the sky is clear. Call 864-3166 for more information.
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