Waleska Aldana Segura Guatemala, Guatemala Any woman who is interested and qualified should be able to become a scientist. Excuses such as a dearth of scientists ought not to enter into the picture. For too long, we have wasted half of the population's intellectual resources by discouraging women from scientific endeavors. For a woman to be unable to fulfill a dream of this sort just because she is female is outrageous. Calif. I believe that women and men do have different ways of doing science.
People seem to think that because men dominate scientific fields, their ways are correct.
No wonder women get discouraged. A woman's ability to analyze problems with an innate sense of detail is vital to science, and it's about time that professors and other scientists started to realize it. It comes down to that age old problem of quantity versus quality. Sure, women tend to be quieter than men and they may publish fewer papers, but there's no need to change the way women do things. Women can teach men to pay attention to details rather than publishing mountains of papers.