Gender and Science: Women in American Astronomy, 1859–1940
DOI: 10.1063/1.881229
Historically, the division of labor within American astronomy was gender specific. Although the field took in large numbers of women, gender dictated who collected data, who reduced it, who analyzed it and who published the results. The assignment of roles reflected the perceptions male astronomers had of females, and those perceptions in turn mirrored the values of American culture.
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John Lankford, University of Missouri, Columbia.
Rickey L. Slavings, Radford University, Radford, Virginia.
