A History of the Education of Women in Science

自19世纪中叶成立以来，霍利奥克山学院大力支持科学，并为女性在科学领域的发展和科学社区的发展做出了贡献，这种发展远远超出了学院的范围。在他们的研究中。Mack和Levin对美国科学教育的发展以及女性对此做出的贡献进行了广泛的探讨。他们的工作揭示了霍利奥克山的科学是如何受到科学专业化的影响的，改变了社会对女性角色的态度，改变了文理学院运作的经济和社会环境。具体来说,Drs。麦克和莱文正在进行三项调查。第一个是关于学校管理者、受托人和教师的意识形态和政策，这些意识形态和政策形成的社会和经济环境，以及它们随时间变化的方式；第二部分是实际实施的计划、活动、扩张和改革；第三是探索这些政策和项目的结果，评估它们对科学界和对科学感兴趣的公众可能产生的影响。这项研究不仅有助于我们理解19世纪和20世纪美国女性参与和缺乏参与科学的历史进程，而且通过这样做，它还将增进我们对各种情况的理解，在这种情况下，我们可以期望女性对科学领域的机会作出反应。该项目的资金由科学工程教育局分担。

Since its founding in the mid-nineteenth century, Mt. Holyoke College strongly supported science and contributed to the development of a place for women in science and of a scientific community that reached far beyond the walls of the college. In their study, Drs. Mack and Levin take a broad view of the development of science education in America and the contributions women have made to it. Their work sheds light on the way in which science at Mt. Holyoke was affected by the professionalization of science, changing attitudes in the larger society towards the role of women, and shifting economic and social circumstances in which liberal arts colleges operated. Specifically, Drs. Mack and Levin are pursuing three lines of inquiry. The first is concerned with the ideology and policies of the school's administrators, trustees, and faculty, the social and economic circumstances within which these ideologies and policies were formulated, and the manner in which they changed over time; the second, with the actual programs, activities, expansions, and reforms that were enacted; and the third with exploring the results of these policies and programs and assessing their possible influence on the scientific community and the interested public for science. Not only will the study contribute to our understanding the historical processes that account for the participation as well as the lack of participation of women in American science in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but in doing so, it will also add to our comprehension of the circumstances under which we can expect women to respond to opportunities in science. This funding of this project is being shared with the Science Engineering Education Directorate.