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Patricia Whitelock on Women

born 1951 South Africa

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I do not have children, and am immensely impressed by women who do and also manage to be successful astronomers.

At SAAO there are a few women in scientific posts.

Of the 5 astronomers on the Executive Committee, I am the only woman.

What is clear in South Africa is that many things were strongly biased against women prior to our first democratic election in 1994.

That is not to say that women occupy 50% of top posts, but there are at least some women in top posts and the profile of the workforce is gradually changing.

All in senior engineering or IT posts. Of the 25 astronomers on the SAAO staff, 5 are women only one of them born in South Africa.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Patricia Whitelock (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.