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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My female cousin is an archeologist with extensive field work experience in the U.S. and abroad, and has never personally experienced anything like that and says her female colleagues are similar. It can happen, but very rarely.

If your DD really wants to be a paleontologist, I wouldn’t let fear of assault be a reason not to. Honestly, campus assaults of female students are probably at least as common if not more so, if only because it’s a much larger population. Get her some self-defense training and encourage her to pick her career aspirations based on what she actually enjoys doing. [/quote]

[b]I am an archeologist and this has not been an issue on any projects I've worked on. [/b]There is one female archeologist I know who was sexually harassed at work...by her boss, indoors, not in the field. Not denying that assault happens, but it's definitely not so common that I'd steer a young woman away from fieldwork to avoid it.

Also consider that there's a difference between needing to get some field experience as a basic qualification or graduation requirement, and devoting your career to field research. I think all these people saying she will have to do fieldwork at some point are missing the point that doing a little isn't the same as doing it forever. I haven't done fieldwork in years myself with the direction my career has taken (although I'm not against it either). [/quote]

Thank you for this comment![/quote]

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