Girls & Science  Drmarts drmarts at Wed Feb 22 14:32:01 EST 1995
>>>>  As I lack first-hand knowledge of the Japanese culture, I
don't know how prevalent this type of incident is.  If typical,
it suggests the of a particularly sturdy glass ceiling, set at a
fairly low level on the career ladder.   I can only offer
another bit of anecdotal evidence. When I was a postdoc I worked
with a very talented Japanese woman who was working as a
"volunteer" - basically, she was an unpaid technician - while
her husband did a postdoc in the lab across the hall. When we
asked why she was willing to work without pay, she explained
that once they moved back to Japan she would be expected to stay
home and be a "faculty wife" and that doing lab work would be
out of the question because it could negatively impact her
husband's image and career. She loved doing research and wanted
to do as much of it as she could before being "forced" into
"retirement." Pretty sad waste, IMHO. Sherry Marts American
Health Assistance Foundation