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...terms of innovative teaching techniques, Franklin is best known for the "zap labs" that she created for students of Physics 15b and 15c. Students are given large red tool-boxes filled with wires, batteries, clippers and soldering irons and are asked to construct various electronic circuits and devices. The labs are meant to teach students basic electronics through a series of hands-on experiments...
...Franklin says she devised the labs in part because women "don't usually get any tinkering growing up." But she says she's discovered that most men at Harvard haven't grown up tinkering either...
...Franklin maintains that physics is still a field that is difficult for women to enter...
...Some of the texts of physics are so flaming in gender bias it's as if the author was writing for an exclusively male audience," Franklin says. She cites problems in which a physicist must save a beautiful woman drowning in a river. The book with that particular problem in it was written in 1965, but Franklin says she believes the male bias continues...
Nevertheless, Franklin admits that she didn't feel much discrimination as a physics graduate student at Stanford or as an undergraduate at the University of Toronto...