Mr Monod was listened to, if not heeded, because he was one of the world's most eminent naturalists, following perhaps the least blameworthy of scientific occupations.
I wasn't passionate about pursuing scientific occupations.
Combating stereotypes in education will, in the long term, lead to there being more highly skilled women in technical and scientific occupations and will also help to meet the needs of certain industrial sectors for manpower or womanpower.
The next challenge was usually associated with the birth of children, reflected in women who had children more likely to leave scientific occupations compared with women who had no children, whereas men who had children were more likely to stay compared with men who had no children.
Occupation stories are barely reported in the Israeli media, which prefers to praise Israeli scientific, business, and cultural achievements or to chew on the latest political scandal.
Third, we created indicator variables for white-collar workers (i.e. employees with a "higher" or "scientific" level of occupation) and service sector jobs (i.e. those in business services, other services, government and education sectors, as opposed to agriculture, industry, construction, trade, gastronomy, repair, transport, care, and welfare).
The research highlighted large pay gaps within the energy sectors as well as scientific and technical occupations where women are also under-represented.
For decades, STEM has been a term of art for those seeking to correct the severe underrepresentation of African-Americans and other minority citizens in scientific and technical occupations.
It will need to be complemented by policies that provide women with more access to career development and training, more assistance with childcare and care for the elderly (which disproportionately falls on women), more encouragement to enter scientific and mathematical occupations and college majors, and more demands for leadership roles to be filled by women in top companies and government.
Raleigh is a hub of North Carolina's "Research Triangle," and in 2007, about 15% of its working immigrant population worked in professional, scientific and administrative occupations, according to the Census Bureau.
