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WOMEN IN HIGHER EDUCATION
In graduate school, Susan C. Athey's male classmates began playing basketball and working out together in the gym. Unwilling to be left out, she took up weight lifting.
"I was definitely a lot smaller than they were," says the professor, with a laugh. She didn't want to let her status as one of the...
How One Woman Defied the Odds in a Male-Dominated Discipline
By PIPER FOGGIn graduate school, Susan C. Athey's male classmates began playing basketball and working out together in the gym. Unwilling to be left out, she took up weight lifting.
"I was definitely a lot smaller than they were," says the professor, with a laugh. She didn't want to let her status as one of the...
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