A Woman's Place in Science (Speech Version)

This modern world of science and invention
Is of particular interest to women

Speech by Amelia Earhart
January 1, 1935
Radio Broadcast

Today
Light, heat and power
May be obtained
By pushing buttons
And cunningly manufactured
And appealing products
Of all the world
Are available at the housewife's door
It is in the home
That the applications
Of scientific achievement
Have perhaps
Been most far-reaching
And it is through changing conditions there
That women have become
The greatest beneficiaries
In the modern scheme

Flying is perhaps
The most dramatic
Of recent scientific attainment

Probably no scientific development
Is more startling
Than the effect of this new and growing
Economic independence
Upon women themselves
When the history of our times is written
It must record
As supremely significant
The physical, psychic and social changes
Women have undergone in these exciting decades

Aviation Exemplified the possible relationship
Of women and the creations of science

Perhaps I'm prejudiced
But to me it seems
That no other phase of modern progress
Contrives to maintain such a brimming measure
Of romance and beauty
Coupled with utility as does aviation
As so often happens in introducing the new or changing the old
Public acceptance depends peculiarly
Upon women's friendly attitude

This industry embraces many of those
Scientific accomplishments which yesterday
Seemed fantastic impossibilities