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...could enter the field.“That process of setting up barriers for entry combined with the more prevalent stereotype of this being a masculine activity meant it was harder to get into, and women were now getting the message that they didn’t really belong there,” Cohoon said.Malan said he believes that this psychological factor still affects the number of females who choose computer science. In terms of academic performance, “we see no difference between male and female students,” he said.Aydede said she believes that stereotypes discourage...
...House. But I don't wear it on my sleeve. [Laughs.] I don't shove it in people's face. I don't expect everybody to vote the way I do ... There's a lot of labels that get thrown around, and one of the reasons I don't belong to any of these organizations in our Congress is [that] because when you join one, you get labeled ... We want to be bold, but we want to be bold together. It doesn't work if you've got 20 members that want to be bold and others aren...
...rare thing in the Midwest, an integrated Christian congregation. When Jones brought his group to California, he started attracting a broader base of people, too. Not just people from the churches, especially the black churches, but also young, idealistic, many of them college-educated people, who wanted to belong to an organization that practiced what it preached and had a social and political component. He also built through the communal organizations that he set up within the Temple a sense of family. At the same time, however, he was breaking down the individual family units within the Temple...
...Yemeni-Jewish mother and a Turkish-Muslim father. I grew up in Germany. I met my Indian Hindu wife when I lived in London for some 20 years. I am often asked where I feel I belong. I always used to answer that I am a citizen of the world. I didn't have a better answer as I could never feel true patriotism toward any country. Obama's win has been like an open-armed welcome. Today, if someone asked me where I feel I belong, I would proclaim sincerely: "Ich bin ein Amerikaner!" Gan Amram-Oymak, BERLIN...
...grave is thought to belong to the Natufian culture, a nomadic society which existed along the eastern Mediterranean roughly between 11,500 and 15,000 years ago. Located near other burial sites, the woman's body was distinctly encased in a limestone enclosure, a tomb sealed by a rock slab that Grosman's team managed to lift in 2006. The following two years were spent painstakingly analyzing the remains found within. Pieces of jewelry, ornamental seashells, or the odd tool have been found in other Natufian graves, but the careful arrangement of the woman's body - her back rested against...