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She's the only female student
in the mathematics class. If she
doesn't understand a concept
she may be afraid to ask for
clarification. If she knows the
correct answer to a question
she may not raise her hand to
respond.
And her teacher may discour-
age her from succeeding.
SHEILA TOBIAS says those
things happen to some female
students because American so-
ciety looks upon mathematics as
the domain of males. The result:
women become anxious, are
shut out of careers and may
suffer psychological damage.
But Tobias, associate provost
at Wesleyan University, has
helped to organize a math clinic
to encourage women to confront
the problem head-on.
"It's obvious in this culture
that mathematics is considered
a masculine field," says Tobias.
"We assume that adolescent
girls shy away from math, give
it less attention and actually
show hostility toward it to dem-
onstrate their femininity."
THE CLINIC, onerating under
a federal grant from the Fund
for the Improvement of Post-
Secondary Education, provides
math courses and psychological
counseling.
Although the math avoidance
problem is more acute among
women, Tobias says about half
the persons who have used the
clinic are males.
Tobias, who says she hasn't
taken a math course since high
school and admits to being a bit
uncomfortable with the subject,
says the clinic isn't intended to
mass produce mathematicians.
ITS PURPOSE is to make
people more competent in using
math in everyday situations and
in breaking down resistance to
the subject based on factors
other and desire and ability.
"A check In a restaurant, a
checkbook at the end of the
month . .. will seem to them to
be no more than an ordinary
everyday problem to solve,"
she says.
The clinic, she adds, "is going
to cause people to be less for-
giving when their daughters or
female friends show weakness
in math.
"THE SECOND thing it's go-.
ing to do is make female stu-
dents angry," when they feel
math teachers are giving them
less attention than male sto-
dents because of their sex.
Tobias says she has received
reports that females who did
well in math in high school were
ridiculed by their peers and'
teachers. That, she says, may
turn women off the subject.
"Being unpopular is pretty
severe punishment when you're
16. years old," she adds.
BECAUSE society steers fe-
males into nonscientific courses
and fields, women who succeed
in math are not treated the
same as men, she says.
The good female performerl
is punished and the poor per-
former is forgiven. An ambitious
parent may permit a daughter
Tobias says: "If one starts
avoiding a difficult mental prob-
lem in adolescence one can de-
velop avoidance patterns and not
confront other inadequacies."
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to fail algebra or not even take ABOUT 160 persons, mostly
algebra on the assumption that Wesleyan students, used the
it is appropriate for a daughter clinic in the year beginning Sept.
not to do well in mathematics." 1, 1975, says Tobias. She says
Bonnie Donady, a learning she expects more to use it in
disabilities counselor at the the second year.
clinic, says a study of the 1973 "I don't think people before
freshman class of the University us put counselors into a mathe-
of California at Berkeley shows matics learning situation," she
that 57 per cent of the males! says. "It's an almost therapeu-
DENVER (UPI) - If a law
school graduate tends bar is it
a sign law schools are over-
producing attorneys?
University of Denver Law
School Dean Robert Yegge be-
lieves otherwise - claiming
some graduates tending bar are
"too picky" about jobs.
"THERE IS THE perception
that lawyering is working for
a large firm making $100,000
per year and there is nothing
else for a lawyer to do," he
said. "That is a folk notion.
The jobs are there, but not
in that conventional sense."
Although there are not
enough "traditional" positions
for graduates of the nation's
160 law schools, Yegge said in
an interview, opportunities in
business, industry, government,
education and communications
are abundant.
Legal training has always
been an advantage, Yegge said,
but as society has become moret
complex and all enterprises gov-
erned by more laws, the need
for attorneys has increased.
"I HAVE A theory that the
law degree is the equivalentl
of a bachelor's degree at the
turn of the century. Law is
such a part of today's world,
that legal training is an in-
troduction into almost any-
thing."I
There was a time when only
biy business and the rich could
es that an increase in the num-
ber of lawyers has led to more
personal damage suits, includ-
ing malpractice.
"I see the increased number
of such suits as good. If a per-
son has beenhwronged by a
physician, he has the right to
redress. If there are more peo-
ple able to get their rightful
redress, they hurry for more
lawyers."
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and only 8 per cent of theefe-
males had taken four years of
high school math. That prepara-
tion was required to take any
calculus or intermediate level
statistics courses at the college.
THE LACK of math training'
keeps women out of many col-
lege major areas and careers
where such experience is re-
quired, she says.
For some people, she says,
math avoidance "is a phobia, a
fear. It really needs to be
brought out in the open and
examined."
tic situation."
Tobias says the clinic gives
people a chance to talk openly
about their feelings toward
mathematics and to recognize
that they can succeed in the
field despite what teachers,
parents and others have told
them.
Wesleyan Prof. Robert Rosen-
baum is co-director with Tobias
of the clinic. The federal grant
that pays for it is shared with
Wellesley College in Wellesley,
Mass., where a similar project
is being done.
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hire lawyers, Yegge said, but More legal actions are being
that has passed with middle filed as the result of legal aid
income persons retaining attor-
neys more frequently and legal and community legal services,
aid offices providing services he said, while the number of
for the poor. consumer rights and sex dis-
crimination cases also has in-
ll 1of these things take moe read.
lawyers. Of course, you willl creased.
never make that $100,000 per ''These areas didn't really
year, and some law students exist 10 or 15 years ago and
don't want it. Most of the law- they have the legal profession
yers that are tending bar are dealing with nonrich, noncor-
too picky and have limited their porate clients," he said. "I see
own possibilities." such suits as a positive and
necessary force for change in
YEGGE ALSO rejected charg- our society."
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