How Do The Social Values That Franklin Had To Confront Justify Her Male Colleagues?

Question 5: To what extent do the social values that Franklin had to confront justify her reluctance to engage in discussions about her research progress with her male colleagues? Response: Once Rosalind Franklin had arrived at King’s College, London, she was immediately confronted by the ‘glass ceiling.’ To start, fellow colleague Maurice Wilkens felt threatened by Franklin’s avid approach to research and refusal to share said research before she had made a conclusion. Wilkens approached the of the director of King’s College, Sir Lawrence Brag (who was the youngest Nobel Prize winner at the time), several times requesting that Franklin be dismissed due to the fact that he ‘hadn’t completed any research since her arrival, because he felt she thwarted his research.’ Franklin was also barred from meeting in the ‘men only’ parlor to discuss and spend time with her fellow scientists—due to her gender. Her reasons behind her hesitation to sharing her research was due to the fact that she felt her fellow scientists—namely James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkens—wanted to ‘play games for fame and fortune, without doing the work’ by the research-proof method she so cherished. It was baffling to Franklin that these so called ‘men-geniuses’ were credited and such when they seemed to be
During Franklin’s lecture, Watson missed the key to building the proper form of the double helix by arrogantly miss quoting Franklin’s measurements for the form. In the instance that Watson tried to confiscate Franklin’s works, Franklin was sickened by Watson’s scheme and refused to let his goals corrupt the fruit of her countless hours of research. Being the arrogant scientist he was, Watson made a vital mistake by refusing to really give credit to Franklin’s hard