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.
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