I resisted being put into traditional categories and I think that helped my career. The interesting thing to me about gender is that it's complicated. I don't think we really understand what gender's effect is in different cultures. It's only since the mid-1970s that anthropologists themselves began to pay attention. Science can be looked at in a social context just like anything else.
All science is a method of inquiry into phenomena.
It's nothing more and nothing less than that. Some people say that science was deeply patriarchal in its origins. I don't really know how they come to that conclusion because it seems to me that science is a method that enables anybody to look at the world in a particular kind of way and there's nothing male or female about it. There's nothing ethnic about it. It transcends those things.