But here I come back to the fact that many women do actually combine marriage and research to prove that it can be done. I know of one woman, Ethel Harvey who was publishing before her marriage to a Princeton professor, dropped out for the years when her two sons were growing up, and after that long absence is back in it again. She got her picture and a description of her work in Life the other week. Another woman I know gave up her research in Histology for marriage and a small daughter and when her husband died some years later, she went back into it and is doing well. In fact I can think of three widows who have turned back to research after their lives were disrupted, among my acquaintances.
Girls ask how to get into research.
Probably the most research in the biological sciences is done by people who are teachers as well. That is approached through a Doctor's degree, or in lesser flash on through a Masters. The perusal of the faculty lists in any college or university catalogue will show that women are on the staffs practically everywhere, except the exclusively men's colleges. I believe the University of Pennsylvania has women doing research but not as professors. Some places are certainly more cordial to women than others, and many places definitely refuse positions to wives of men staff members.