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Women in Evolutionary ScienceLisa Glickstein, PhD
Follow-up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPZEHW71EnQ
Sex identification (gender and sexual dimorphism)
Utopian communities – live on largely in the products they produced: Oneida silverware, Amana refrigeration (appliances), Kellogg's cereal, Welch’s grape juice, Shaker furniture
Overview and Themes
Lives of women in (evolutionary) science
Impediments and barriers Increasing role of higher education Scientific contributions The “evolving” role of women in
science, “evolving” feminism, and the future
Rachel Carson
Born in 1907, graduated HS in 1925 and women’s college (now Chatham University) in 1929
Entered Johns Hopkins in 1929, left with a MS in 1932 (to financially support her parents)
1936 – second woman full-time at the Bureau of Fisheries, as a junior aquatic biologist
Rachel Carson
She was assigned to write pamphlets and radio pieces
1951 The New Yorker – “The Sea Around Us”
Dorothy Freeman – neighbor and close friend
1962 Silent Spring – work delayed by breast cancer, she died in 1964
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMSEnIVFBQ0
Simone de Beauvoir Born in 1908 Studied mathematics and
philosophy at the Sorbonne (9th woman, and the youngest graduate)
"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman“
Wrote The Second Sex in 1949 – became the manifesto of the women’s movement
Lifelong relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre
Betty Friedan Born in 1921 Graduated from Smith
College in 1938 Attended UC Berkeley Active in journalism
from college throughout her life
Wrote The Feminine Mystique (1963)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwwzRDvkpsc
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Born in 1934 Graduated from Smith College Worked as a journalist from 1960 Founded Ms. Magazine Preached reproductive freedom https://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zl5qeF0aqs
Rosemary Grant
Her high school headmistress tried to convince her that university education was for men (around 1956)
Attended Edinburgh University in Scotland, where she graduated with a degree in zoology in 1960
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcM23M-CCog&feature=youtu.be
Rosemary and Peter Grant Participate as equal partners in their
research – he began as her teaching assistant
Lived with their two daughters six months per year on the island
Both received the Bachelor degree in 1960; he received the PhD in 1964; she in 1985
He is an emeritus professor; she is a “retired senior research scholar”
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Lynn Margulis
Received her PhD in 1963: Demonstrated the presence of DNA in the chloroplasts of Euglena gracilis
Although not the first with the idea, she collected the seminal data on evolution by endosymbiosis or symbiogenesis
Gaia hypothesis – with Lovelock Described variously as a courageous rebel, or
fruitfully wrong http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIXsKHIECAs
Germaine Greer
Born in 1939 PhD in 1968 The Female Eunuch Preached sexual freedom Sex and Destiny – Greer argued
that the Western promotion of birth control in the Third World was in large part driven not by concern for human welfare but by the traditional fear and envy of the rich towards the fertility of the poor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvRZXj3TFNY
Arlie Russell Hochschild
Born in 1940 Educated at Swarthmore
and UC Berkeley (PhD) The Second Shift -
"economy of gratitude“ "stalled gender
revolution" Hochschild's work
combines critical theory, ethnographic observation, and a focus on human emotion
Polly Matzinger
Born in 1947 Nontraditional career
path included stints as a Playboy Bunny, a bar waitress, a jazz musician, a carpenter and dog trainer
PhD from UCSD NIAID Section Head “Danger Hypothesis”
1994
“in a world that wanted all women to be Betty Crocker, it was the Playboy club that wanted women who could speak to men as equals”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hznyBtFKdM4
bell hooks Born in 1952 Stanford U, BA 1973 PhD UCSC 1983 'Feminism is a movement to
end sexism, sexist exploitation and oppression‘
‘the wounded child inside many males is a boy who, when he first spoke his truths, was silenced by paternal sadism, by a patriarchal world that did not want him to claim his true feelings’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5ThEoA0ESA
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Born 1970 Indiana University 1992 PhD Harvard 1999 Pew Scholar, MacArthur Genius award HHMI Investigator 2013 How did multicellular organisms evolve?
Choanoflagellates & evolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVqxyYBuI_U
Symbiosis (predator-prey relationship induces rosettes)
Gene regulation