To the Editor:
John Tierney suggests that women choose not to go into science and
engineering because they are interested in social values and people
contact, and he quotes the social scientist Patti Hausman as saying,
Reinventing the curriculum will not make me more interested in
learning how my dishwasher works.
Although I am an engineering professor, I am similarly uninterested in
dishwasher mechanics.
What fascinates me are wireless devices that can help older adults
remain autonomous longer, artificial tendons that may enable people to
recover from injury more quickly, methods of efficiently cleaning
polluted rivers, and the design of computer systems that enable people
working in remote sites to collaborate with one another all projects
that my female colleagues and I work on.
Martha E. Pollack
Ann Arbor, Mich., Sept. 26, 2006
The writer is a professor of computer science and engineering at the
University of Michigan.
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