{"id":136,"date":"2021-04-27T15:53:50","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T15:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/histbiocolby\/?page_id=136"},"modified":"2021-06-15T18:42:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T18:42:56","slug":"belcher-on-gender-disparity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/histbiocolby\/belcher-on-gender-disparity\/","title":{"rendered":"Belcher on Gender Disparity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/histbiocolby\/files\/2021\/04\/Belcher-Gender-Disparity-1-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/histbiocolby\/files\/2021\/04\/Belcher-Gender-Disparity-1-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/histbiocolby\/files\/2021\/04\/Belcher-Gender-Disparity-1-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/histbiocolby\/files\/2021\/04\/Belcher-Gender-Disparity-1-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/histbiocolby\/files\/2021\/04\/Belcher-Gender-Disparity-1-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/histbiocolby\/files\/2021\/04\/Belcher-Gender-Disparity-1-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>A letter for the Class of 1932, written by Jane Belcher, a former student and assistant professor of Biology at Colby.<br>\u201cClass of 1932 Letter December 8, 1989 from Jane Belcher.\u201d Colby College Special Collections, Waterville, Maine December 8, 1989.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In Jane Belcher\u2019s December 8th, 1989 letter to her graduating class, she discussed the luck and gratitude she felt towards Colby for taking a chance on her as a young biology faculty member. Belcher recounted how she had only one female student in the first course she taught. This letter demonstrates the mentality women often held when they were given positions in an academic institution. They often reduced their hiring to luck rather than skill. Belcher was a smart, determined student and professor. At the time she entered the field, however, female representation and inclusion was so few and far in between that any position acquired was seen as a lucky chance granted by the men in charge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Curated by Ophelia Baxter<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Jane Belcher\u2019s December 8th, 1989 letter to her graduating class, she discussed the luck and gratitude she felt towards Colby for taking a chance on her as a young biology faculty member. Belcher recounted how she had only one female student in the first course she taught. This letter demonstrates the mentality women often [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9273,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/histbiocolby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/histbiocolby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/histbiocolby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/histbiocolby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/histbiocolby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/histbiocolby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":556,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/histbiocolby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136\/revisions\/556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/histbiocolby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}