Cultural Influences on the Science Career Choices of Women

Author Institution: Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Wright State UniversityIntensive interviews of 35 Ohio State University women graduate students revealed cultural differences influencing the selection of academic majors and careers by American and international women in the sciences and the humanities. Poor or inadequate mathematics and science teaching, pressures to conform to gender-role expectations, and students' social concerns were some of the reasons humanities students selected their courses and majors. Asian and African women usually reported strong familial and societal pressures for selecting scientific careers, while Europeans and some Americans were motivated by personal interest in the subject matter of their disciplines. The findings of this study contribute to the understanding of women's level of participation in science courses, majors, and careers, and may enhance educators' efforts to improve science education for women

Health and Medical Care in the Palestinian Occupied Territories

The Gaza Strip and the West Bank have been under Israeli military occupation since 1967, when they were captured during the June War with Egypt, Syria, and Jordan. Contrary to international agreements, Israel has maintained tight military control over the Palestinian Occupied Territories and their Arab inhabitants. Furthermore, Israel has established settlements within the borders of the Occupied Territories. After twenty years of apparently tolerating the occupation, Palestinians startled the world by rising up to protest against Israeli military domination, illegal confiscation of land and water resources, humiliation, and physical abuse. The occupied Palestinian population began the shaking off — Intifadah — of political oppression and economic dependence on Israel. Intifadah protestors are mostly Palestinian women and youth organized and directed by the United National Leadership of the Uprising, who demonstrate in the towns, villages, and refugee camps of the Palestinian Occupied Territories. Their weapons are stones, burning tires, and Molotov cocktails hurled at heavily armed and shielded Israeli soldiers. They are answered with Israeli gunfire, tear gas, beatings, jailings, destruction of houses and property, intermittent shut-offs of electricity and water supplies, deportation, torture, and death, which often occur without any provocation. Although the Israeli government has a virtual monopoly of military force. it has been unable to quell the Intifadah

Hormonal Assessment of Sexual Maturation in Four Captive Lowland Gorilla Males

Monozygotic twins Mosuba and Macombo were born at the Columbus (Ohio) Zoo in 1983. During their first year, weight and skeletal growth indicators were virtually identical. The twins lived together continuously until age 7, when they were permanently separated. Mosuba joined a group of males and elderly, non-breeding females in the Henry Doorly Zoo of Omaha, Nebraska. He sired an infant by artificial insemination at age 12. At age 16, Mosuba had the appearance of a fully mature silverback, with prominent sagittal and nuchal crests and typical large body size, consistent with his age