Encouragement from fathers

     It was my observation as a professor in a mostly-male mathematics department that the men who joined me in supporting opportunities for women were fathers of daughters.  They had come to see the world from a new perspective -- and saw that it needed changing.  Somewhat along these lines was a recent Washington POST article that told of recent research findings about socially responsible behavior from CEO's with daughters.
      With these thoughts in mind I started counting words . . . wanting to form a poem:

       Math 
       girls  need 
       fathers for encouragement, 
       to      open      their      eyes 
       to  achievement  as 
       well      as 
       deference.

              Fathers 
              need math 
              daughters so they
              can want equality
              for  both
              genders.