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Then follow the logic:
"Yes, I know we are "equal" but oh my goodness, look, this equal person did this equal thing!" ... yet this excitement implies lack of equality-- if equality was inherent, there would be no need to exclaim equality excitedly.
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Nobody is demanding that. It could just be that they want to.
Steve Shirley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Shirley was able to found a computing consultancy business in the 1960s staffed entirely by women that had been fired when they got married, as was the usual practise at the time.
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Nobody is demanding that. It could just be that they want to.
It's was definitely demanded or at least heavily expected in the 60s and 50s (when these women grew up).
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Blaise Pascal is another example. Heard he did something with all kinds of triangles. He was quite invasive with his faith though.
And Reverend Bayes, too.
Making a lifetime vow does not mean you turn your brain off. The Belgian priest, Georges Lemaître, first proposed the theory that is now known as the Big Bang and made other discoveries in astronomy and physics, and still served as a priest as well.
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And Reverend Bayes, too.
Yes, REVEREND Bayes was clergy, too, and what would we do in machine learning without Bayes' theorem? (His grave is in London.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes%27_theorem
As many other commenters have noted, there is a culture of many women religious receiving advanced degrees. One of my college friends who got his PhD in political science at MIT was surprised to discover that there were two women religious in his grad school cohort.
In parallel terms, "monk" and "brother" are often used interchangeably, but like with nun, a monk lives cloistered. A brother is a non-ordained man consecrated to religious life. While many brothers are monks, many monks are priests, and some brothers live non-cloistered lives, in the sciences, perhaps the best known would be Brother Guy Consolmagno who is a Jesuit brother and the Vatican astronomer.
My great aunt who is a nun got a masters in Chemistry in the 1950s. She said that the only other women in her program were nuns.
It's not really surprising, is it? In a society that demands of women to get married and raise kids instead of work, it's mostly women who aren't allowed to marry and have kids who get to do things like follow a higher education.
My mom got an engineering degree, '64-'68, and was also pretty much the only woman there. Women were going to college then, it's just that any woman (like my mom) showing engineering aptitude was encouraged to be a teacher since, as she was counseled, "women don't become engineers".
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Steve Shirley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Shirley was able to found a computing consultancy business in the 1960s staffed entirely by women that had been fired when they got married, as was the usual practise at the time.
Ok, fair enough I never knew this was a common practice. I was thinking more about today when I made my comment
What makes you think it was common practice? Exceptions are a thing…
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It's was definitely demanded or at least heavily expected in the 60s and 50s (when these women grew up).
Nowadays it's demanded that both husband and wife work, and it gave us the two-income trap. It's not even progress.
Financial capitalism at its best.