Women Scientists in the 1970s: An Ego-Histoire of a Lost Generation

Saturday, February 16, 2013
Room 311 (Hynes Convention Center)
Pnina G. Abir-Am , Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Talk reflects on methodological shift from doing the history of a star woman scientist in the inter-war period, when the collection appeared in the mid-1980s; to a current preoccupation with the fate of the first generation of women scientists to be hired (and fired) in the 1970s