Word: sissela
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sissela serves on a hospital committee on human experimentation and is regularly consulted by doctors both as a committee members and as a medical ethics specialist. But she doesn't feel people respect her opinion. She asked repeatedly to have quotes read back to her before they were printed "because otherwise, you know, doctors will read these things and say, 'My God, now what's she saying?' Then it turns out its not even something I did mean...
...Harvard parties, many guests end up discussing controversial issues and court cases involving medical ethics with Sissela. She presents the whole situation but never ventures an opinion on which way the decision should go. A trustee of the hospital Sissela works at explained, "She was very interesting to talk to on the Quinlan case." But even there she did not advocate a particular solution...
...manner is more formal than is usual," for people in Harvard circles, the wife of a Harvard administrator says. "Perhaps it is because of her European upbringing." Sissela, too, believes her foreign background explains part of why she does not act like everyone else...
...foreign feelings are most strongly apparent in her failure to adopt the American woman's increasing awareness of sexism, Sissela does not consider Harvard a male dominated environment; nor does she feel that being a women here has led to any special problems. "That may be something that I never really worried too much about. But that may also be because I did grow up in another country and it never occurred to me to worry about whether I was a woman or a man. That was really not something and it never occurred to me to worry about whether...
...Sissela questions herself at times when many women would quickly seize the chance to charge sexism. In a situation where she feels her opinion is not being taken seriously, she explains with a small laugh, "The fact that I am a woman would not occur to me as the first possibility. I'd be much more worried had I done my homework, had I really prepared for this, am I being silly? But am I a woman? That would not come in as a very early question...