How do cultural and societal factors impact the careers of female physicists?
It’s a question Teresa Embry would like to answer--and she needs your help. For her PhD thesis at the University of Arizona, Embry would like to compare the career paths of female HEP physics from the United States and Italy, and investigate how cultural and social factors might impact the career progression and perseverance of these women. Her study is partly spurred by the fact that there are more Italian women than US women participating in international HEP experiments.
If you are a female particle physicist or PhD student participating in an HEP experiment at CERN or SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, and would be interested in assisting Embry, please contact her at tembry (at) grad.arizona.edu. Interviewees will need to have lived and completed their education in either the United States or Italy, must provide their CV and give a one- to two-hour interview.
Embry notes that while her study is gender based, her study aims to identify positive aspects that have created environments where women have been successful in this field; not to focus on struggles that women face in a male-dominated field.
