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Women in Science

This is one of the most interesting and thought provoking articles on the subject I have encountered.

So many articles extrapolate too much from personal experience and an agenda that reduces a complex problem into a simplistic principal component. Sometimes it is about the accumulative effect of small details, casual details that can arbitarily shift individuals into different trajectories. We can do more to ensure that all individuals and especially trainees are insulated from arbitariness and it does seem apparent that women are more subject to this in our culture, even though this is a generalized statement.

Click on the photo for a link to the original article. The community discussion is also fascinating.

Intervention and encouragement has an outsize impact. The converse is also the case. I’d venture to say that this occurs across all disciplines and at all levels.

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