To the editor: Once I arrived at Caltech in Pasadena as a graduate pupil in chemistry in 1966, there have been no feminine undergraduates, no tenure-track girls school, and solely a handful of ladies graduate college students. I used to be typically the one girl in a classroom of males. (“Caltech’s latest STEM breakthrough: Most of its new students are women,” Aug. 27)
Quick ahead 58 years, and girls are actually the vast majority of undergraduates, and people college students have fantastic feminine school mentors and position fashions, together with Nobel Prize winners.
The cherry on the sundae is the distinctive Caltech Youngsters’s Middle, which supplies baby care to college students, school and staff. I used to be certainly one of three girls who acquired it began in 1970 and was privileged to tour it not too long ago. The place else would you discover a science laboratory for 2-year-olds?
I congratulate my graduate faculty for its progress in gender equality.
Paula Bernstein, Los Angeles
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To the editor: Your article about incoming girls outnumbering males at Caltech jogged my memory of a go to I had there 17 years in the past.
After touring the campus, I used to be a bit involved about my son’s social life ought to he go there. So I requested our information what the gender breakdown of scholars was. The information’s response, “It is dependent upon why you ask,” at all times amused us — little doubt a quantum physics-style reply.
Not too long ago, I despatched my son your article with the remark, “Our domination is over!”
He responded, “Sheesh, subsequent factor you realize, we’ll have a feminine president!”
By the best way, my son did meet his future spouse as an incoming freshman — at UC Berkeley.
Dan Ellison, Ventura
