What percentage of undergrad science majors in MIT are women?
50%
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How will women react if there are no role models?
They will seek out other women, or turn themselves into mentors and role models for one another.
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What article did McHale read instead of "The Battle Moves to the Trenches?"
An Exploration of Barriers.
100
What is the proper attire when going to an interview?
The men always come in jeans and women dressed in suits. Women worried that dressing too formally would make them seem as though they were trying too hard. But that is not true.
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True or False? If you are the first female in the department, the university is definitely ready to embrace a female scientist.
False
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What percentage of engineering students at MIT are women?
33%
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When being judged, what environments do women typically work better in?
In places where they are being awarded grants, prizes, findings cited by other experts, or other explicit criteria.
200
What do you get when you mix a vampire and snowman?
Frostbite.
200
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True or False? The aspiring engineer was told that she would make a good secretary because of her neat hand writing?
True.
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At top tier institutions what percentage of professors in social, behavoiral, and life sciences are women?
15%
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What is the "two-body" problem?
When women need to balance their family life and career life.
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What are Mario and Luigi's overalls made out of?
De-ne-ne-ne-ne-nim.
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When talking about work in the lab should the female scientists say I or we?
She should avoid saying we too much because it could be misinterpreted.
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True or False? After the passage of the civil rights legislation, the number of female facutly became equal to the number of men at MIT.
False
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What percentage of the nation's medical students are women?
50%
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What was the advice that Dr. Steitz gave?
It is crucial to have someone up your sleeve who will save you.
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What advice was given about handling the interviews?
Shake hands firmly, look people in the eye, have a just-in-case copy of your presentation, and know how to descirbe your work quickly and clearly to a non-expert.
400
True or False? If women are more flexible in their opinions, they are classified as needy, timid, or flighty.
True
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How many hours a week does a career in science demand
70
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Who said women in science are in a double bind?
Dr. Heilman
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What should a pregnant woman do during an interview?
According to Dr. Niemeier, you should go in and act as though you are the cream of the crop.
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True or False? Dr. Ames said that the band of acceptable behavior for women is narrower than it is for men.