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    The document summarizes and comments on a quote from the book "My Mother the Scientist" about the challenges the author's mother faced as a female scientist in the 1960s. It draws a connection to the book "The Handmaid's Tale", noting both works illustrate societies where women had fewer rights and career opportunities than men. It poses the question of why the author of "My Mother the Scientist" only mentions his father once throughout the story.

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    The document summarizes and comments on a quote from the book "My Mother the Scientist" about the challenges the author's mother faced as a female scientist in the 1960s. It draws a connection to the book "The Handmaid's Tale", noting both works illustrate societies where women had fewer rights and career opportunities than men. It poses the question of why the author of "My Mother the Scientist" only mentions his father once throughout the story.

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    TianaTate

    12/10/14
    HonorsCalculus
    QCCQ

    QQuote
    Ascientistwhosawomanandalsoamother.Tobecomeascientistishardenough.
    Buttobecomeonewhilerunningagauntletoflies,insults,mockeries,anddisapproval
    thiswaswhatmymotherhadtodo.MyMothertheScientist.pg73.

    CComment
    InthisquotefromMyMothertheScientist,theauthorrecollectsmemoriesfromhis
    childhood.CharlesHirshbergdescribesatimeinfirstgradewhenhisteachersassigned
    foreachstudenttolearnaboutwhattheirfathersdidforalivingandcomebackthenext
    dayandshareitwiththeclass.Charlesgrewupinthe60swherewomenwerentable
    tohavethesamecareersasmen.WhenHirshbergcametoclassthenextdayhetold
    thisfellowstudentsandteachersthathisfatherwasascientistbutalsobroughtupthe
    factthathismotherisascientistaswell.SinceHirshbergsmotherhadacareerin
    sciencetheentireclasswasbothintriguedandconfused.Beingasuccessfulwoman
    inamansworkfieldwasunheardof.

    CConnection
    IpersonallyhaventfeltlikeIveeverbeentreatedunequallybutfromreadingMy
    MothertheScientistIsawaconnectiontoabookthatImcurrentlyreadingin
    Humanities.TheHandmaidsTalebyMargaretAtwoodisaboutafictionalstorywherea
    totalitariansociety,wherebirthratesarerapidlydecreasingiscreatedtousewomen
    whocangivebirththejobtodosoforelitecoupleswhocantInthestory,thewomen
    arentallowedthesamerightsasmenare.Forexample,thewomenarentallowedto
    readorwritebutmenare.Theonlyjobsthesewomenareallowedtohaveistogive
    birth.Theyarentallowedtohavetheirownidentity.Beingawomeninasocietywhere
    menareconsideredmyauthoritativecontinueseveryday.Womengothroughtheexact
    samethingHirshbergsmotherwentthroughinthe1960s.

    QQuestions
    Whydoestheauthoronlybringuphisfatheroncethroughoutthestory?

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