To the editor: After I arrived at Caltech in Pasadena as a graduate scholar in chemistry in 1966, there have been no feminine undergraduates, no tenure-track girls college, and solely a handful of ladies graduate college students. I used to be usually the one lady in a classroom of males. (“Caltech’s newest STEM breakthrough: Most of its new college students are girls,” Aug. 27)
Quick ahead 58 years, and girls are actually nearly all of undergraduates, and people college students have great feminine college mentors and function fashions, together with Nobel Prize winners.
The cherry on the sundae is the distinctive Caltech Youngsters’s Heart, which offers youngster care to college students, college and workers. I used to be one among three girls who acquired it began in 1970 and was privileged to tour it just lately. The place else would you discover a science laboratory for 2-year-olds?
I congratulate my graduate college for its progress in gender equality.
Paula Bernstein, Los Angeles
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To the editor: Your article about incoming girls outnumbering males at Caltech jogged my memory of a go to I had there 17 years in the past.
After touring the campus, I used to be a bit involved about my son’s social life ought to he go there. So I requested our information what the gender breakdown of scholars was. The information’s response, “It relies on why you ask,” at all times amused us — little question a quantum physics-style reply.
Lately, I despatched my son your article with the remark, “Our domination is over!”
He responded, “Sheesh, subsequent factor you recognize, we’ll have a feminine president!”
By the way in which, my son did meet his future spouse as an incoming freshman — at UC Berkeley.
Dan Ellison, Ventura
