For Carson, that launched a period of writing at night while working full-time by day at the bureau as a junior marine biologist. She expanded "Undersea" into her first book, Under the Sea-Wind, published in 1941, and she also wrote articles about the Chesapeake Bay for The Baltimore Sun and other newspapers. She signed her name "R.L. Carson" to disguise the fact that she was a woman.
What inference can be made based on paragraph SE
• People would have been less likely to read her work if they had known Carson was a woman.
Carson was not yet confident in her own writing abilities.
• In 1941, women were more respected in the field of science than most people believe.
• Readers were not very interested in learning about marine biology topics.