Over the Edge + March 22, 2006 News and Opinion 7 Examining Women’s Academic Voices WILLIAM WOLFE-WYLIE CUP ATLANTIC BUREAU CHIEF SACKVILLE, N.B. (CUP) - When publishing academic articles, women publish an average of half an article per year less than men, but. their work is cited more oftén and is often viewed as a more important contribution to the field, according to Cecilia Moloney. “Women spoke less often, but-when they did speak; they had something interesting to'say,’ said Moloney at her lecture on March 3. Molonéy’s speech centered around the lack of women in engineering. and computer sciénce programs at universi- ties in Canada and the Unites States. Currently holding the NSERC/Petto- Canada Chair for women in Science eftSciest webocies ae a AL and Engineering in the Atlantic region, her job is to try and promote women becoming involved in these fields. Moloney is also a professor of electrical “and computer engineering at Memorial University of Newfoundland, With her background in science and engineering, Moloney decided to take her experiences in that field ‘and turn them to the conference which fo- cuses more generally on the personal experiences, challenges, victories’ and disappointments of women-in mn the acae demic world. “Voice is a metaphor for. expat 310n, *said Moloney. Through. hers experience in communications, Moloney” argues that through voice, women not ofity express themselves but also ensure that 06 yaris what they have to say is being heard. Moloney cited research by Virginia Valian out of New York who spoke ex- tensively about gender schemas. Valian argued that communication between -men and women is often dependent on gender and that men and women often evaluate each other and each other's ideas based on gender, An awareness of these issues has gone a long way to promoting change in the U.S., said Moloney. She said that a summer school hosted for high school teachers at Carnegie Mellon University promoted awateness of gender schem- as and examine the reasons why fewer women went into computer sciences. “There are many women who excel at university, she said, “they're just not choosing to apply these skills some- where that's not sciences.” Much of the disparity, she said, could be attributed to the different ways in which “boy nerds” are viewed and treated in comparison to “girl nerds’. Whereas boys are often praised for spending time on the computer and their interest in the sciences, girls are often viewed as abnormal for having the same interests. “Taking awareness out to the high school teachers is a said Moloney. But even in the current academic en- vironment, women are having trouble making headway toward equal treat- ment in universities. Women in universities across Can- rrnore bling for your monttis. 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Letter to the Editor TED MORRIS CONTRIBUTOR Dear Editor, I would like to thank all of my sup- porters in the nugss election Febraury 27, 28, 2006. I had run against Veron- ica Haddon for the First Nations’ Rep, however I did not get elected which is fine by me. I put my name forward for reasons that were coerced by the eet nugss reps. A resolution was introduced to assimu- late all the reps from First Nations; womens Centre, Disability, and other positions into a diversity Rep.the reso- lution did not get passed because we were not prepared to get represented by a non-native;non-women, or non- disability person. We didn’t want our representative to be taken away from us in-such a manner. We had our reps in- corporated in the nugss for reasons be- yond the last nugss board history. The land you are now sitting on belongs to Lheidli Tenneh Territory, and when the university was first established in 1994, there was agreements with the First Nations in Northern B.C. who agreed to be part of the unversity. There are many First Nations courses here at the university on account of those agreements with different First Nations, hence there is a Nisga’a Stud- ies, Wetsuweten language, Carrier lan- guage and culture “courses. To have one young Euro- Canadian man who thinks that he could represent our people better than we can is not what we want. I went to the ex- tra-ordinary assemlby with voting the resolution down on these grounds, and we as a collective defeated that resolu- tion. That was one of the reasons I had put my name forward for First Nations’ Rep..again I would like to thank all the people who voted for me, and I wish Veronica well in her post. I remain. Ted Morris