At a meeting of the Woods Hole “pod” this week, it was gratifying to see the number of women who are able to make a living in STEM fields in this area.
They claimed to value diversity in their work forces, but no one in these competitive fields wants to hear that their professional success is the result of luck and social class as much as hard work and ability, nor are they really willing to do what is needed to lower the barriers for those who weren’t born as lucky.