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[[right corner]] Lucent Women's CONF 7/97 [[left margin]] My background Mid-70's (after Apollo, before STS...) NASA->Commitment->Diversity [sci Eng/ women minority] Advertised Widely (I was Grad student at Stanford...) selected 35->6 women -> Father (happiest) (Understood what daughter did for a living) Sense of culture we entered (Houston - JSC) All astros had been male ~ 2000 Engineers/sci-> 2 female Visit = Cuff Links (welcoming celebration) 1 of 2 women [crossed out] biochemist (head of small group) =>Suddenly was annointed the expert on all women's issues (selection committee; How we should be arranged in photos; addition to locker room => # of towels 4 hair dryers Definitely male culture, but Good News: 1. NASA had made commitment (well before we arrived) 2. 6 of us at once => I was 1st of 6 to fly...but as evidence of commitment => - All 6 flew (+KS) > 25 total have flown ~20% of astros = female CLH head of J3C
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