But education hasn't always been open to women. In reading about an astronomer's attempts to attend graduate school, Haws discovered that Princeton didn't allow women to enter in 1971. This has been rationalized by blaming seniority. Haws believes it is crucial to have women involved in science and technology. This difference alone makes it important to include women.
Science is presented as a linear, logical, value-free activity.
What is studied is partially determined by funding availability. For this reason, Haws believes it is important for more women to be involved in making those decisions. Women's interests have often been neglected because they have not been involved in deciding what gets studied and how it is studied. The most dramatic instances show up in medical research. Haws told of a study in which diet pills were tested on men.