{"606136":{"#nid":"606136","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Science, Technology, and Gender: A Sociologist\u2019s Quest for Equality","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMary Frank Fox, ADVANCE professor in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology, was featured in the American Association for the Advancement of Science, May 11, article, \u0026ldquo;Science, Technology, and Gender: A Sociologist\u0026rsquo;s Quest for Equality.\u0026rdquo; The School of Public Policy\u0026nbsp;is part of the Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;As a child I attended meetings and events. I was little and saw and heard my mother with the courage of her convictions,\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;said Fox.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn high school, with tools from the public library and encouragement from a social sciences teacher in Plymouth, Michigan, Fox designed and completed a study of gender and opportunity for high school students.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I had a finding: That the status of the students in the school and their families corresponded more closely for girls than for boys. Boys, it appeared, had some independent avenues. They could become socially mobile through athletics. That wasn\u0026rsquo;t available to girls at the time.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis then opened a world of inquiry for me,\u0026rdquo; she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the full article, visit the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.aaas.org\/blog\/member-spotlight\/science-technology-and-gender-sociologist-s-quest-equality\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003Ewebsite.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34508","created_gmt":"2018-05-14 14:58:35","changed_gmt":"2018-05-15 17:57:28","author":"oadebola3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"fractal","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.aaas.org\/blog\/member-spotlight\/science-technology-and-gender-sociologist-s-quest-equality","dateline":{"date":"2018-05-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-05-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"591142":{"id":"591142","type":"image","title":"Mary Frank Fox","body":null,"created":"1493412657","gmt_created":"2017-04-28 20:50:57","changed":"1493412657","gmt_changed":"2017-04-28 20:50:57","alt":"Mary Frank Fox","file":{"fid":"225236","name":"MaryFrankFoxHeadshot_2017.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/MaryFrankFoxHeadshot_2017.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/MaryFrankFoxHeadshot_2017.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":290136,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/MaryFrankFoxHeadshot_2017.jpg?itok=_sYa3-Ju"}}},"media_ids":["591142"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"736","name":"diversity"},{"id":"713","name":"Gender"},{"id":"167040","name":"science"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}