OPN Viewpoint October 2013
The Challenges of Addressing Minorities in a Majority Culture , Professor Elsa Garmire, talks about the importance of culture in the Optics Community.She discusses her experience of being a minority in a community populated mainly by Caucasian men. She writes that "we must accept these cultural differences and acknowledge that they can cause unintended biases and barriers".
She says "Regarding both work cultures and those shaped by gender and ethnicity, my motto is: Vive la difference! Our differences
can bring a richness to the field of optics if we allow them".
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Professor Elsa Garmire