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Caption: SWE - Proceedings of the First International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists
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Music and languages have always been among my interests. In the last few years I have had much pleasure from learning Russian sufficiently to follow technical works and am rather proud of having had a translation of a monograph on Dynamical Astronomy published a year ago. Since the war, my husband and I have had many occasions to travel together, several times to this country*—to both sides, but in my case hardly ever to the middle. It is a platitude that the best way to get one's own work done is to go away from one's own University, and I should like to pay tribute to the stimulus that I always get from visiting departments here. For the last few months, my husband, now "retired", nas been working at the Lamont Geological Observatory of Columbia University; I am deeply grateful to the aeronautical engineers for making the time of travel so short, so that I shall be able to make two visits during the period. My own retirement from my present appointment is only a few years off, but I hope to continue to work. Combining academic work with marriage is largely a matter of how much you want to do it and of the support that your husband gives. I wish that I could see it becoming really easier for the coming generation. We have no children and I realize that the decision on what is best for them is not easily settled. Although women engineers cannot do much in the way of providing an automatic children's nurse, they can do much in stressing the need for cheap and efficient labour-saving equipment in the home; but I believe the fostering of a public opinion that encourages the married graduate to use her training to be even more important. VI-37
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