Talk:Leah Allen

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I was really shocked at the gender bias in an article written about Leah by a fellow women astronomer in 1908. Full-text online:Mary Proctor."Halley's Comet after 75 years rushes Earthward again", San Francisco Call, August 23, 1908.

Hood College Archives & Special Collections holds her personal papers. http://www.hood.edu/library/services.cfm?pid=services_specialCollections.html Jodi.a.schneider (talk) 19:31, 23 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Mary Proctor who wrote that article was also an astronomer by training and a well-known writer on the subject. The gender bias was simply a matter of different times. In that era, these women were groundbreakers in women's rights and expanding womens roles. It's hard to know if that style of writing was simply natural for the era, or if Ms. Proctor was urged to do that by her editors, or if she simply chose that style as perhaps the best way to "sell" the ideas of women taking on traditional male roles.

I'll try to get a photo of her, and fill in some more biographical information. e.g. her middle name was Brown, and she was director of Williams Observatory at Hood College until retiring in 1995. Battling McGook (talk) 01:25, 6 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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