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Talk:Women in Science and Mathematics (view source)
Revision as of 02:00, June 12, 2011
, 02:00, June 12, 2011Expand on the implied question.
Sam, please ask your questions on the talk page. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 15:28, 11 June 2011 (EDT)
Sam, please ask your questions on the talk page. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 15:28, 11 June 2011 (EDT)
:My first reaction to the above was "Huh? What questions?" But I see that you are referring to my edit comment "Should this page be where the social issues are discussed, or just the facts?"
:Here's the deal: The issues of feminism, innate differences, women in the military, whether girls should be encouraged to go into predominantly male professions like science/math/engineering, proper gender roles, etc etc etc, are enormously important issues. And it's clear from various things that you have written that you have strong feelings about these topics. (BTW, I don't feel that I have the expertise to make any contribution to such discussions.) So my question was really "What is the right place for discussing these topics?" Should there be essay pages? Debate pages? Mainspace article pages?
:I just felt that the page about a 19th-century mathematician/computer scientist/whatever was too obscure a place to be airing these important issues. Is this "Women in Science and Mathematics" page the right place? It probably isn't either, though it can touch on these issues. For example, the case of Lise Meitner is very interesting. She sort of got belittled by history, but perhaps more through Nazi anti-semitism and postwar German nationalism than gender issues. It's really a fascinating story. Maybe I'll write about it someday. The case of Marie Curie is sort of the opposite. She was so brilliant (originated the field of nuclear physics!) that no kind of gender discrimination could harm her. But cases like these don't really belong in a general discussion about such things as gender roles or women in the military.
:So I really don't know what the right place is for discussing the topic. [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 22:00, 11 June 2011 (EDT)