Oceanography Vol. 21, No.3 38 SPECIAL ISSUE FEATURE Women in Oceanography 20 Years of Progress, Change, and Challenge Tough there is still more work to do, the attitudes and ideals of my young women and men colleagues are having a positive impact on the culture of oceanography. As a young ocean- ographer, my attitude was, largely, to try to ft in, without making many changes. Today, doing things solely on the terms set by earlier male colleagues is no longer the only way to be an oceanographer. —Rana Fine, Professor, University of Miami Oceanography Vol. 21, No.3 38 In the mid-1980s, when I frst arrived at Oregon State University as a new postdoctoral scientist, an incident demon- strated to me both the newness of women in science and how all of us can prejudge women. Another woman and I were in the copy room when the machine malfunctioned. Tere was this rather long, awkward pause while both of us looked to the other to fx the copy machine. We had both presumed the other was a secretary. Dr. Jane Huyer and I had a good laugh over this. It also taught us both a good lesson—we all have preconceived expectations of the female gender! —Joan Oltman-Shay, President and Senior Research Scientist, NorthWest Research Associates, Inc. Tis article has been published in Oceanography, Volume 21, Number 3, a quarterly journal of Te Oceanography Society. Copyright 2008 by Te Oceanography Society. All rights reserved. Permission is granted to copy this article for use in teaching and research. Republication, systemmatic reproduction, or collective redistirbution of any portion of this article by photocopy machine, reposting, or other means is permitted only with the approval of Te Oceanography Society. Send all correspondence to: info@tos.org or T e Oceanography Society, PO Box 1931, Rockville, MD 20849-1931, USA.