Women in Evolutionary ScienceLisa Glickstein, PhD

Follow-up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPZEHW71EnQ

Sex identification (gender and sexual dimorphism)

Utopian communities – live on largely in the products they produced: Oneida silverware, Amana refrigeration (appliances), Kellogg's cereal, Welch’s grape juice, Shaker furniture

Overview and Themes

Lives of women in (evolutionary) science

Impediments and barriers Increasing role of higher education Scientific contributions The “evolving” role of women in

science, “evolving” feminism, and the future

Rachel Carson

Born in 1907, graduated HS in 1925 and women’s college (now Chatham University) in 1929

Entered Johns Hopkins in 1929, left with a MS in 1932 (to financially support her parents)

1936 – second woman full-time at the Bureau of Fisheries, as a junior aquatic biologist

Rachel Carson

She was assigned to write pamphlets and radio pieces

1951 The New Yorker – “The Sea Around Us”

Dorothy Freeman – neighbor and close friend

1962 Silent Spring – work delayed by breast cancer, she died in 1964

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMSEnIVFBQ0

Simone de Beauvoir Born in 1908 Studied mathematics and

philosophy at the Sorbonne (9th woman, and the youngest graduate)

"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman“

Wrote The Second Sex in 1949 – became the manifesto of the women’s movement

Lifelong relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre

Betty Friedan Born in 1921 Graduated from Smith

College in 1938 Attended UC Berkeley Active in journalism

from college throughout her life

Wrote The Feminine Mystique (1963)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwwzRDvkpsc

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Born in 1934 Graduated from Smith College Worked as a journalist from 1960 Founded Ms. Magazine Preached reproductive freedom https://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zl5qeF0aqs

Rosemary Grant

Her high school headmistress tried to convince her that university education was for men (around 1956)

Attended Edinburgh University in Scotland, where she graduated with a degree in zoology in 1960

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcM23M-CCog&feature=youtu.be

Rosemary and Peter Grant Participate as equal partners in their

research – he began as her teaching assistant

Lived with their two daughters six months per year on the island

Both received the Bachelor degree in 1960; he received the PhD in 1964; she in 1985

He is an emeritus professor; she is a “retired senior research scholar”

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Lynn Margulis

Received her PhD in 1963: Demonstrated the presence of DNA in the chloroplasts of Euglena gracilis

Although not the first with the idea, she collected the seminal data on evolution by endosymbiosis or symbiogenesis

Gaia hypothesis – with Lovelock Described variously as a courageous rebel, or

fruitfully wrong http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIXsKHIECAs

Germaine Greer

Born in 1939 PhD in 1968 The Female Eunuch Preached sexual freedom Sex and Destiny – Greer argued

that the Western promotion of birth control in the Third World was in large part driven not by concern for human welfare but by the traditional fear and envy of the rich towards the fertility of the poor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvRZXj3TFNY

Arlie Russell Hochschild

Born in 1940 Educated at Swarthmore

and UC Berkeley (PhD) The Second Shift -

"economy of gratitude“ "stalled gender

revolution" Hochschild's work

combines critical theory, ethnographic observation, and a focus on human emotion

Polly Matzinger

Born in 1947 Nontraditional career

path included stints as a Playboy Bunny, a bar waitress, a jazz musician, a carpenter and dog trainer

PhD from UCSD NIAID Section Head “Danger Hypothesis”

1994

“in a world that wanted all women to be Betty Crocker, it was the Playboy club that wanted women who could speak to men as equals”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hznyBtFKdM4

bell hooks Born in 1952 Stanford U, BA 1973 PhD UCSC 1983 'Feminism is a movement to

end sexism, sexist exploitation and oppression‘

‘the wounded child inside many males is a boy who, when he first spoke his truths, was silenced by paternal sadism, by a patriarchal world that did not want him to claim his true feelings’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5ThEoA0ESA

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Born 1970 Indiana University 1992 PhD Harvard 1999 Pew Scholar, MacArthur Genius award HHMI Investigator 2013 How did multicellular organisms evolve?

Choanoflagellates & evolution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVqxyYBuI_U

Symbiosis (predator-prey relationship induces rosettes)

Gene regulation