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姝︽眽甯?/p>
2014
楂樿�冭嫳璇槄璇荤悊瑙ｈ缁冮锛?/p>
4
锛夐檮绛旀
I don't ever want to talk about being a woman scientist again. There was a time
in my life when people asked constantly for stories about what it's like to work in
a field dominated by men. I was never very good at telling those stories because
truthfully I never found them interesting. What I do find interesting is the origin
of the universe, the shape of space-time and the nature of black holes.
At 19, when I began studying astrophysics(
澶╀綋鐗╃悊瀛?/p>
), it did not bother me in
the least to be the only woman in the classroom. But while earning my Ph.D. at MIT
and then as 3 post-doctor doing space research, the issue started to bother me. My
every achievement
鈥?/p>
jobs, research papers, awards
鈥?/p>
was viewed through the lens of
gender (
鎬у埆
) politics. So were my failures. Sometimes, when I was pushed into an
argument on left brain versus (
鐩稿浜?/p>
) right brain, or nature versus nurture (
鍩?/p>
鑲?/p>
), I would instantly fight fiercely on my behalf and all womankind.
Then
one
day
a
few
years
ago,
out
of
my
mouth
came
a
sentence
that
would
eventually
become
my
reply
to
any
and
all
provocations:
I
don't
talk
about
that
anymore.
It
took
me 10 years to get back the confidence I had at 19 and to realize that I didn't want
to deal with gender issues. Why should curing sexism be yet another terrible burden
on every female scientist? After all, I don't study sociology or political theory.
Today
I
research
and
teach
at
Barnard,
a
women's
college
in
New
York
City.
Recently,
someone
asked
me
how
many
of
the
45
students
in
my
class
were
women.
You
cannot
imagine
my satisfaction at being able to answer: 45. I know some of my students worry how
they will manage their scientific research and a desire for children. And I don't
dismiss
those
concerns.
Still,
I
don't
tell
them
"war"
stories.
Instead,
I
have
given
them this: the visual of their physics professor heavily pregnant doing physics
experiments. And in turn they have given me the image of 45 women driven by a love
of science. And that's a sight worth talking about.
9. From Paragraph 2, we can infer that people would attribute(
褰掑洜浜?/p>
) the author's
failures to_____.