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Caption: SWE - Proceedings of the First International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists
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that it would be all but impossible to be out of science during the years of child-bearing and rearing and then return to science even with a retraining program. Why, we ask, could not part-time jobs in science and engineering be created for such women to fill? What programs are available to help the woman trained in science to keep step with the newer developments so she might return to science after an absence of ten to fifteen years? Programs which offer women an opportunity to retrain prior to their return to the scientific world are available in a few sections of this country, but more are needed. Women engineers and scientitst have an important role to play in developing engineering and scientific talent by motivating young women through the inspiration of their achievements; through their interest in the young women with scientific aptitudes; by assisting able well-trained scientific women to good positions that will deepen and strengthen their scientific knowledge; by helping to change the climate of public opinion about women in science; and by providing opportunities for the young married woman with family responsibilities to keep abreast with science. This is a challenge that cannot and should not be denied. VI-12
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