I have a son, and I would never want him to behave like this—constantly using foul language and sexual innuendos. This behaviour makes me not want to participate on team projects. Indeed, many of the women who participated believed that this macho behaviour flourishes because company executives condone it.
Sarah's colleague, Lindsey, is reported as commenting: The guys at the top set the tone for everyone else. As a woman, you have to develop armour plate.
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As a result of this, women in SET have a hard time figuring out exactly how to progress their careers: They said they checked the mirror each morning to make sure they weren't dressed in a way they were going to be whistled at. That goes beyond an atmosphere that's not supportive. That's a hostile atmosphere.
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Overall, Sherbin said that she felt a little as though she had travelled through a time warp when interviewing focus-group respondents and compiling results: However, some women with experience of working in SET jobs do not necessarily agree with the findings and sweeping conclusions of the Athena Factor study. Claudine Jalajas, for example, is a technical writer who has had several technology jobs throughout her career. Perhaps the women interviewed for the study did not care to advance within their jobs or careers, she said, and the study itself gives no answers.
Similarly, the proportion of respondents with post-doctoral training who anticipated career advancement is not specifically delineated, she noted. Although her colleagues at the Association for Women in Science agree that women in the sciences have a tougher time, they feel that those in the biotechnology field might be the exception: And also the structure is a much more horizontal one where there is a great deal of responsibility spread out at lower levels.
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In fact, the Athena Factor study reports that biotechnology companies in general tended to have a less macho culture than other SET jobs: Although specific numbers are hard to track down, a search of patent applications and attendant interviews with venture capitalists has shown that women are mostly absent when it comes to turning research into marketable products, Rosser explained at an inclusive science conference at the College of St Catherine's in St Paul MN, USA in June Confirming the findings of the Athena Factor study, Rosser found that women are less willing to put aside family obligations or to work long hours.
Yet it was the interviews that she conducted with venture capitalists in Silicon Valley in California, USA, as part of her research that really hammered home what women are up against. It's a recreation of the boy's-club atmosphere. The Athena Factor report goes further than just providing an overview of the career situation and work satisfaction of women in SET jobs; it also outlines initiatives that companies can use to help women to balance work and family, and to thrive in their jobs. The study features 14 company initiatives—some still at an early experimental stage—which range from those intended to end female isolation to those that help young female multicultural employees to attain senior management jobs.
These initiatives are likely to allow many more women to stay on track in their careers, Sherbin said. In particular, the Athena Factor study presents Genzyme—a biotechnology company in Boston MA, USA that specializes in therapies for rare inherited disorders and other diseases—as a company that has successfully recruited, supported and retained female scientists.
On the basis of focus groups held at Genzyme in October , the Athena Factor study offers an explanation for why this biotechnology company is a welcoming place for women. On top of this, however, the corporate culture at Genzyme makes specific efforts to care for employees, both male and female, the study finds.
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A fourth generation Colorado native, his family had been involved in hard-rock mining, cattle ranching, and journalism. After his father's death in , Michael's mother received her Master's degree in journalism and began teaching. In she married Joseph J. Cook, who taught tool and die making, and the fam W. Cook, who taught tool and die making, and the family lived in Lakewood, Colorado, until At that time they moved to Fort Collins so that Joe could pursue his Ph.
During those years the family lived in the foothills above Horsetooth Reservoir.
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It was there that Mike developed a love of history, anthropology, and motorcycles. They would color his future and fill his imagination for the rest of his life. During summers he volunteered labor on local ranches or at the farm east of Greeley and landed his first real job: It has been said that his exposure to trash led him into archaeology. We will not speculate about what cleaning the outhouses might have led him to. On his first dig as a professional archaeologist in he discovered that two thousand year old human trash isn't nearly as obnoxious as the new stuff.
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Upon completion of his Master's - his specialty was in physical anthropology - he went to work for Western Wyoming College in Rock Springs as a field archaeologist. It was in the winter of that he wrote his first novel. Irritated by historical inaccuracies in Western fiction, he swore he could do better. He was "taking retirement in installments," archaeology being a seasonal career, in the cabin his great uncle Aubrey had built.
One cold January night he read a Western novel about a trail drive in which steers castrated males had calves. The historical inaccuracies of the story bothered him all night. The next morning, still incensed, he chunked wood into the stove and hunkered over the typewriter. There, on the mining claim, at nine thousand feet outside of Empire, Colorado he hammered out his first five hundred and fifty page novel. Yes, that first manuscript still exists, but if there is justice in the universe, no one will ever see it. It reads wretchedly - but the historical facts are correct!
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Beginning in , Michael, along with two partners, put together his own archaeological consulting company. Pronghorn Anthropological Associates began doing cultural resource management studies in , and, although Michael sold his interest in , to this day the company remains in business in Casper, Wyoming. During the years, Michael has worked throughout the western United States doing archaeological surveys, testing, and mitigation for pipelines, oil wells, power lines, timber sales, and highway construction. He learned the value of strong black coffee, developed a palate for chocolate donuts, and ferreted out every quality Mexican restaurant in eight states.
He spent nine months of the year traveling from project to project with his trowel and dig kit, a clapped-out '72 Wonder Blazer, and his boon companion, Tedi, a noble tri-color Sheltie. That fateful day in November, , was delightfully clear, cold, and still in Laramie, Wyoming.