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...women's problems in society is relatively recent to most people, Bunting has long been aware of prejudices and searching for answers. "I never felt any problems in my own education or going into graduate and career work because I was a woman," she said. "But right after Sputnik I became aware there was a problem with women's education." She served on a National Science Foundation Committee on Scientific Education and Manpower-one of the many governmental commit ?? set up in the wake of the Russia, ?? cllite. A study that committee dia??nowed that 98 per cent of what...
...Sputnik...
Leahy said it was "unfortunate" that "everybody's appetite was increased so much in the post-Sputnik era. [Sputnik's launching] was a magic event for the support of first science and then the other branches of higher education...
...American scientific fantasy was caught in a bind. Its aversion to growing technology and fear of nuclear warfare was matched only by its aversions to the Russians. It was Sputnik that tilted the balance in favor of technological advancement, but only for as long as it took to outdo the Russians in space and win all that propaganda value...