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Letters: Girls can aspire to be high-flyers As a group representing professional women working in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, social sciences, medicine and health in a leading UK university, we found your report on the lecture by Jill Berry, president of the Girls' Schools Association (Girls 'need to be realistic' about careers, 14 November) utterly depressing. We are saddened that arguments for equal opportunities have to be made over and over again. Berry asserts that a woman's aspiration for a high-flying career can "all work fine, until their children are ill", ignoring the fact that parents, male and female, often share this responsibility.We are successful scientists, researchers and educators. Many of us daily attest to the fact that having children, ill or otherwise, does not wreck a career. Those of us who are mothers also acknowledge men and women who combine caring responsibilities with paid employment. Women scientists are not "superwomen", as Jill Berry would lead her pupils to believe, just ordinary women who get immense satisfaction from doing a job they enjoy. Some combine this with raising a family or caring for others. The reiteration of tired arguments about a woman having to balance the desire for a family against career aspirations is alarming. Are we to return to an era when careers advisers had separate lists of jobs suitable for girls?Half the UK's talent resides in individuals that carry two X chromosomes. To discourage girls and women from developing their potential and achieving financial independence not only denies them fundamental equality but damages the economy and society. We must get real about tackling inequality of opportunity.Professor Lindy Holden-Dye, Professor Catherine Pope, Professor Dame Wendy Hall, Dr Pamela Jackson, Professor Andrea Russell, Professor Jane Hart, Professor Geraldine Clough, Dr Kanchana Ruwanpura, Dr Vesna Perisic, Professor Mark Spearing, and 11 others Women in Science and Technology group, University of SouthamptonProfessor Lindy Holden-DyeProfessor Catherine PopeProfessor Dame Wendy Hall DBE FREng FRSDr Pamela JacksonProfessor Andrea RussellProfessor Jane K HartProfessor Geraldine CloughDr Kanchana N RuwanpuraDr Vesna PerisicDr Brita NucinkisProfessor Mark SpearingDr Su WhiteProfessor AC TropperProfessor Jeremy KilburnDr Malgosia KaczmarekDiana CaicedoClare HooperAsa AsadollahbaikRocio Aldeco-PerezKamaljit Kerridge-PooniaSunny TakharFor an on behalf of the Women in Science and Technology (WiSET) group at the University of SouthamptonWomenEngineeringCareersguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |
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