Career Booklets in Physics

THE Institute’s Education and Manpower Department is issuing this month the latest in its series of career booklets designed to interest students at both the high‐school and college levels in pursuing physics as a profession. Rewarding Careers for Women in Physics, by Dr. Elizabeth A. Wood of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, is based in part upon the discussion at an all‐day Conference on Careers for Women in Physics held at the Institute last April. The booklet deals with the opportunities for women in the field as well as with the problems they face in their careers as physicists. It describes the range of activities open to women in physics by presenting a number of illustrative case histories. A comparative table listing typical salaries available to men and corresponding salaries open to women in various job areas in the profession is also given.

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